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Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

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Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

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This post on embeddings by simonw https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/

This one as well by a former intern from a decade ago who now writes on python and ml internals: How Many Lines of C it Takes to Execute a + b in Python? https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/a-war-story-involving...

Ow. There's a paywall halfway through. Don't do what I did and get interested in the story if you aren't up to subscribing.

Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one as well by a former intern from a decade ago who now writes on python and ml internals: How Many Lines of C it Takes to Execute a + b in Python? https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/a-war-story-involving...

Ow. There's a paywall halfway through. Don't do what I did and get interested in the story if you aren't up to subscribing.

Maybe the reason for CoW being triggered is reference counting. Does anyone know?

Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

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post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ow. There's a paywall halfway through. Don't do what I did and get interested in the story if you aren't up to subscribing.

Maybe the reason for CoW being triggered is reference counting. Does anyone know?

Usually from GC. Anthony Sottile has a nice explanatory video: https://youtu.be/sdmcCQ7Em04?si=9PObAJixALFiZ9vd

Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

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I wrote a lot of articles on fundamentals (verifiable time estimation, leverage points with systems theory, using the Kelly criterion to shape project portfolio, system observability, evolution, etc.) with the intention of ending up on lists like these. None of them gained much traction, which means I need to get better at condensing the key points.

In the end, I think my most popular article of the year ended up being a relatively short note on how Bill Tindall approached software development for the moon landings: https://two-wrongs.com/tindall-on-software-delays.html

Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

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I haven't found my favorite this year, but instead I was heavily into newsletters. Currently I'm subscribed to:

https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ - industry insights.

https://www.workspaces.xyz/ - people sharing their home office setup incl. photos.

https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/ - all recent tech articles from companies engineering blogs.

https://leaddev.com/ - leadership stuff.

https://hackernewsletter.com/ - weekly hackernews summary nicely split into categories.

https://www.ben-evans.com/ - product and business around tech with nice deep dives.

Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

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Paul Graham's Essays keep me amused during this winter season - https://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html They go way back, and I do expect(and look forward to) new content.

Came across them via multiple sources, but what got me hooked was a reference from Robert Morris' work.

Kinda funny to reference this here :D.

Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

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post #37

Bicycle by Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/ - HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343495 Bartosz has many great blog posts, maybe most famously the one on mechanical watches published in 2022: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ HN posts for Bartosz's blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski

That Bicycle post is Pulitzer worthy - every middle school student should be taught that post in science.

As a cyclist for decades - I still learned a lot - how to put to words that which I had innate muscle memory knowledge of, but no language for.

The demonstrations are fantastic.

Hands down should get some sort of IRL award of meaning.

I forgot I had seen the watch as well... Man this guy is amazing!

Thanks for resurrecting these for me.

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