From the trail
Field Notes
Short essays from the trail — what building this site teaches, the dead ends, the surprises, and the craft of explaining hard things simply.
Write it three times
The first time you explain something, you're reciting. The second time, you're editing. The third time, you finally know what you think. On the unreasonable power of writing summaries.
Read the note →What the tab was doing while you read this
A single-threaded waiter, a queue of small favors, and the reason your page froze. The event loop, told as a story about a restaurant with one waiter.
Read the note →The tutorial lie
Tutorials promise understanding and deliver imitation. The gap between those two things is where every self-taught developer lives — until they name it.
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