Submissions from alexanderell.is

		Having Heart Surgery at 32 (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by speckx 5 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look? (alexanderell.is)
		173 points by otras 12 months ago \| past \| 103 comments
		Visualizing my strengths and areas for growth with RPG radar charts (alexanderell.is)
		2 points by otras on April 12, 2025 \| past
		Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by otras on April 28, 2024 \| past
		All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by otras on Nov 18, 2023 \| past
		Brute-forcing the NYT Digits game (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by otras on July 12, 2023 \| past
		Writing an RPC from Scratch (2021) (alexanderell.is)
		81 points by otras on May 2, 2023 \| past \| 15 comments
		Things that are hard to measure, things that are easy to measure (alexanderell.is)
		2 points by otras on Feb 26, 2023 \| past \| 1 comment
		In the desert, no service, and your partner's late to the rendezvous. What now? (alexanderell.is)
		3 points by otras on Feb 17, 2023 \| past \| 1 comment
		Practice Being a Beginner (alexanderell.is)
		2 points by otras on Nov 2, 2022 \| past
		Learning by working on problems just outside of your reach (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by otras on Oct 3, 2022 \| past
		iPhones and action discoverability (alexanderell.is)
		396 points by otras on Sept 24, 2022 \| past \| 315 comments
		The hobby buyer's fallacy: “I'd pursue my hobby if I just bought X” (alexanderell.is)
		2 points by otras on Sept 24, 2022 \| past
		Stubbornness and Programming (alexanderell.is)
		3 points by otras on Sept 11, 2022 \| past
		Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch (alexanderell.is)
		157 points by otras on Aug 29, 2022 \| past \| 19 comments
		What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really (alexanderell.is)
		58 points by otras on Aug 15, 2022 \| past \| 8 comments
		Sharpening the Axe for Programming (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by otras on Aug 6, 2022 \| past
		Funny artifacts in a 3D house scan (alexanderell.is)
		33 points by otras on July 30, 2022 \| past \| 3 comments
		My false start when learning to program (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by otras on July 18, 2022 \| past
		Work Context, Home Context (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by otras on July 10, 2022 \| past
		How far behind a plane is its noise? (alexanderell.is)
		108 points by otras on June 12, 2022 \| past \| 70 comments
		Why does a spray bottle work? (2018) (alexanderell.is)
		2 points by ddtaylor on June 8, 2022 \| past
		I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones (alexanderell.is)
		462 points by otras on June 5, 2022 \| past \| 355 comments
		Playing with a 3D representation of RGB color space (alexanderell.is)
		2 points by otras on May 28, 2022 \| past
		Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions (alexanderell.is)
		369 points by otras on May 21, 2022 \| past \| 132 comments
		“I don't know the numbers”: a math puzzle (alexanderell.is)
		176 points by otras on May 8, 2022 \| past \| 111 comments
		Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable (alexanderell.is)
		127 points by otras on May 1, 2022 \| past \| 32 comments
		Opinionated Variable Names (alexanderell.is)
		1 point by otras on April 17, 2022 \| past \| 1 comment
		What is a minute, really? Easy ways to change how fast time passes (alexanderell.is)
		3 points by otras on April 10, 2022 \| past
		The tech interview prep industry (alexanderell.is)
		149 points by otras on April 3, 2022 \| past \| 190 comments
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