Stories by mirawelner

Octopolis and Octlantis

How I got a job in March 2025

List of Common Misconceptions

A Philosophy of Software Design (book) [pdf]

Take this on-call rotation and shove it

What do professors do (1995)

Perspectives from the Technical University of Munich

Grad School Is in Trouble

Research Debt

Write for Yourself, Not an Audience

What does Bing chat tell us about AI risk

Does X Cause Y

The Codebase of a National Lab I Worked At

"Will I ever use this in the real world?" (2016)

Ask HN: What computer science blogs do you have bookmarked?

Five important things about DeepSeek

NLP Best Practices

Why I Don't Like Hackathons

CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design

The Drunken Plagiarists: working with copilots