Stories by alexharri

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013)

Arguing point-by-point considered harmful

Staring into the abyss as a core life skill (2022)

Amazon's Antitrust Paradox (2017)

AI is not our future

The Icelandic Voting System (2024)

Four Kinds of Optimisation (2023)

A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed

Animate to height: auto; (and other intrinsic sizing keywords) in CSS (2024)

Curve Families

Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance

Type assertions are not a substitute for non-null assertions

Sharing Changes, Visuals First

My Modern CSS Reset

CRDT: Fractional Indexing (2022)

Searching for and Navigating Git Commits

The Senior Shortcut

A note on estimated reading times

The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types

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