Stories by otras

Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf]

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

Visualizing my strengths and areas for growth with RPG radar charts

Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests

All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer

The Big Dig

Scollay Square

Brute-forcing the NYT Digits game

Writing an RPC from Scratch (2021)

Things that are hard to measure, things that are easy to measure

In the desert, no service, and your partner's late to the rendezvous. What now?

Practice Being a Beginner

Learning by working on problems just outside of your reach

iPhones and action discoverability

The hobby buyer's fallacy: “I'd pursue my hobby if I just bought X”

Stubbornness and Programming

Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch

Sharpening the Axe for Programming

A Machine for Thinking: How Douglas Engelbart Predicted the Future of Computing

Funny artifacts in a 3D house scan

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