Robert Williams

• Kieran Egan's educational philosophy in the form of a book review
  https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-educated-mind
• Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - Casey Muratori
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qyvQsjK5Y
• How Doctors Die
  https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/
• LEGO - Great Ball Contraption
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj62Gs6MOcg&t=922s
• Programming/codebase visualizations
  https://blog.sbensu.com/posts/demand-for-visual-programming/
• CORDIC algorithm: calculating sine and cosine on embedded devices
  https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024/5/10/cordic.md
• All About Semiconductor Fabs
  https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor
• Guide to Fourier Transforms
  https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/not-so-fast-mr-fourier
• Jeff Dean Facts (if Chuck Norris were a programmer)
  https://www.informatika.bg/jeffdean
• How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Leo Tolstoy
  https://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/
• The Grug Brained Developer
  https://grugbrain.dev/
• IEEE Float Analyzer
  https://float.exposed/
• Blog About UI/UX Mistakes
  https://grumpy.website/
• Guide to Unicode
  https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
• Most UI Applications are Broken Real-time Applications
  https://thelig.ht/ui-apps-are-broken/
• Alan Kay: The Power of Simplicity (building blocks and vision for the future)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs
• The Mountain Goats: An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZNFKxeYZPA
• The Mountain Goats: Thank You Mario, But Our Princess Is In Another Castle
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZNFKxeYZPA
• Executive Function Theft: Abdication of Decision-Making
  https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-theft/
• Interview with John Warnock (Co-founder of Adobe)
  https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/john-warnock/
• Visual guide to GPS
  https://ciechanow.ski/gps/
• The Bug Count Also Rises
  http://www.snider.com/jeff/hemingway.html
• The Little Printf: a story about a little programmer
  https://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html
• Wait vs Interrupt Culture: an essay about conversation
  http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wait-vs-interrupt-culture/
• Visualization of objects in low Earth orbit
  https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization
• For a better interview process, test reading code instead of writing it
  https://freakingrectangle.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/
• Charitable Donations Infrastructure
  https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/charitable-donations-infrastructure/
• Raising Kids That Enjoy Work
  https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/01/641266260/how-to-get-kids-to-do-chores-does-the-maya-method-work
• A Contrarian Take on Working Long Hours
  https://allisonpickens.substack.com/p/a-contrarian-take-on-working-long
• Gravity Light: it lights a room by lifting a weight
  https://deciwatt.global/gravitylight
• On Having the Courage to Follow God
  https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/10/42johnson?lang=eng
• Software Development Waste
  https://hcarvalhoalves.github.io/software-development-waste/
• An Oral History of Bank Python
  https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
• Joel Spolsky teaches Excel
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
• Your Human-sized Life: You can only sleep in one bed, or drive one car, at a time
  http://scripting.com/2016/05/31/1296.html
• How (Why) to be Polite
  https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c
• Bill Watterson's Commencement Speech
  https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html
• Decent advice about software engineering
  https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/
• The Worst Possible Volume Control UI
  https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950
• The Whistle: An anecdote about not overpaying by Benjamin Franklin
  https://www.thoughtco.com/the-whistle-by-benjamin-franklin-1688774
• The Last Question: A thought-provoking short story by Isaac Asimov
  https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
• Road To Zig - Andrew Kelley (video); C with all the problems fixed :)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g
• Social network that gives you only 100 posts... for life
  https://minus.social
• The Quiet World: Poem by Jeffrey McDaniel
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437786
• Agency: It's Powerful and Unnerving
  https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/agency
• Space Opera Cliches
  http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/towards-a-taxonomy-of-cliches-.html
• The Unix Philosophy (see pg. 4)
  https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1899/mode/2up
• What problems to solve (Richard Feynman)
  http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/problems
• Schlep Blindness (Paul Graham) Don't ask: What problem should I solve? Ask: What problem do I wish someone else would solve for me?
  http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
• Boring Technology is Better
  http://boringtechnology.club/
• Round Robin Publishing
  https://roundrobin.pub/
• Book: Land of Lisp (scroll down, way down :)
  http://landoflisp.com/
• If Microsoft developed a car :)
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464524
• Linux DRM Modesetting Examples (Well Documented!)
  https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/tree/master/drm-howto/modeset.c
• Food Preparation Hacks (video)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUJQqljHzI
• Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer
  https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nmodyl/drunk_post_things_ive_learned_as_a_sr_engineer/
• Overkill Objects for Everyday Life
  https://neil.computer/notes/overkill-objects-for-everyday-life/
• The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly: 21 seconds
  https://scatter.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/the-shortest-possible-game-of-monopoly-21-seconds/
• Just Use Email: Instant Messaging Is No Longer Instant
  https://www.justuseemail.com/instant-messaging-is-no-longer-instant/
• How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQccNdwm8Tw
• How the Internal Combustion Engine Works
  https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/
• How to Criticize Computer Scientists
  https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.criticize.html
• The computer revolution hasn't happened yet: Alan Kay speaks about his vision of how far computing can go
  https://catonmat.net/videos/the-computer-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet
• Reflections on Trusting Trust: lecture about how it's nearly impossible to fully trust software, even when you have the source code
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210
• Hilarious fictional book about an alternate reality that started diverging from our own in the 1960s
  http://unsongbook.com/
• How do you measure an employee's performance?
  https://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-thanks-or-no-thanks.html
• Be careful when designing APIs because they define ABIs. Tales about the stdio ABI.
  https://fingolfin.org/blog/20200327/stdio-abi.html
• Secondary earners are penalized when filing taxes jointly.
  https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=shlj
• Standardized tests are written by lawyers and psychologists.
  http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/13/13956.html
• Give your team members responsibilities, not tasks. That communicates trust which leads to better outcomes.
  http://adamard.com/little_tasks.html
• Build an OS for the Raspberry Pi from the ground up.
  https://github.com/dddrrreee/cs140e-20win/
• The dichotomy of contentment and ambition
  https://jjude.com/contentment-and-ambition
• You can improve your sense of meaning and fulfillment by better choosing how you spend your attention
  https://mythirdbrain.substack.com/p/how-i-spend-my-attention