Stories by luu

Decapitating a MacBook

Picolibrary: A Small Press

A Week of Bug Reporting

Whistle Synth

Tracing np.add, all the way down

A preview of the future IA documentation

Nicholas Polson Has Written Over 200 Academic Papers in 2026 (so far)

Job Loss Fears in the First Years of Generative Artificial Intelligence

The most important half-hour of my life

Why I am so against volunteering in academia (ecology-edition)

Top Web Design Styles of 1993

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026

CSS Runtime Performance

Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

The Absolute State of Management

Webmux: Like Tmux, but for the Browser

Loose Navigation Grids

Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

Natural Independence Incentives

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