I live in Thekambattu and when I'm not busy reading, I write in both prose and code.
Dangerous Writing App
Dangerous Writing App. If you stop typing, all progress will be lost. Now with over 500+ writing prompts to choose from.
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
Hi, I'm David Perell.
I write, host a podcast, and run a writing school called Write of Passage.
Writing Is Thinking
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
mikupad
A simple completion UI for llama.cpp/server, designed for story writing and playing with prompt formatting.
The social contract of writing | jola.dev
About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.
We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era
Literate programming is the idea that code should be intermingled with prose such that an uninformed reader could read a code base as a narrative, and come away with an understanding of how it works and what it does. Although I have long been intrigued by this idea, and have found uses for it in a couple1 of different cases2, I have found that in practice literate programming turns into a chore of maintaining two parallel narratives: the code itself, and the prose. This has obviously limited its adoption.
A break from programming languages
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.
Reading and Writing Persian / Farsi (by Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation)
Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?