Articles by alexharri
245

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)

2

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites (danilafe.com)

2

Personal Information (tonsky.me)

2

Rich Friend, Poor Friend (2022) (jenn.site)

2

The Myth of Rational Design (2010) (zerobanana.com)

1

The Age of Greater Reykjavík (flother.is)

1

Social dynamics of Bluetooth speakers (2022) (dynomight.net)

86

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie (alexharri.com)

2

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013) (yosefk.com)

1

Arguing point-by-point considered harmful (seangoedecke.com)

1

Staring into the abyss as a core life skill (2022) (benkuhn.net)

3

Amazon's Antitrust Paradox (2017) (yalelawjournal.org)

178

AI is not our future (procreate.com)

52

The Icelandic Voting System (2024) (smarimccarthy.is)

6

Four Kinds of Optimisation (2023) (tratt.net)

24

A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed (alexharri.com)

1

Animate to height: auto; (and other intrinsic sizing keywords) in CSS (2024) (chrome.com)

1

Curve Families (linebender.org)

1

Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance (yosefk.com)

1

Type assertions are not a substitute for non-null assertions (alexharri.com)

1

Sharing Changes, Visuals First (alexharri.com)

3

My Modern CSS Reset (jakelazaroff.com)

1

CRDT: Fractional Indexing (2022) (madebyevan.com)

1

Searching for and Navigating Git Commits (alexharri.com)

1

The Senior Shortcut (skamille.medium.com)

1

A note on estimated reading times (baldurbjarnason.com)

57

The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types (alexharri.com)

3

Umferdin.is: Traffic and Road Condition Information for Iceland (umferdin.is)

3

The Marriage Market (robkhenderson.com)

2

2024 Icelandic Developer Survey: Compensation, Technologies, and More (alexharri.com)

2

Do Ten Times as Much (betonit.ai)

46

Planes in 3D Space (alexharri.com)

0

Writing system software: code comments (2018) (antirez.com)

1

Why Review Code? (2018) (sophiebits.com)

1

Bitcoin Mining Around the World: Iceland (2023) (hashrateindex.com)

1

Iterator Helpers (v8.dev)

3

JSDoc as an Alternative TypeScript Syntax (alexharri.com)

1

Noise in Creative Coding (varun.ca)

1

Interfaces generally belong with users (2019) (neugierig.org)

56

The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) (alexharri.com)

8

Making GRID's spreadsheet engine 10% faster (alexharri.com)

99

Why doesn't TypeScript properly type Object.keys? (alexharri.com)

3

Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction (alexharri.com)