Articles by nivethan
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The bee that everyone wants to save (naturalist.bearblog.dev)

1

Fantastic Anime Edit (youtube.com)

1

Low Effort Sandwiches (cherrysroom.bearblog.dev)

2

Trickle Down Effects (gomakethings.com)

2

New York's Best Espresso? (2002) (nytimes.com)

1

Gnome Workbench (github.com/workbenchdev)

95

Mozilla's latest quagmire (rubenerd.com)

2

What I Would Change in Lox for Teaching (2022) (third-bit.com)

2

Recursive Descent and Pratt Parsing (chidiwilliams.com)

1

Bytecode Compilers and Interpreters (2019) (bernsteinbear.com)

2

Basic parsing difficulties in EndBASIC (2023) (endbasic.dev)

2

How to Write a Book in Markdown (carlalexander.ca)

1

Diverging Diamond Interchange (wikipedia.org)

1

Posthog Trash (posthog.com)

2

HTML Modals (developer.mozilla.org)

2

Life-Size Human Statue Found at Göbeklitepe (archaeology.org)

1

Remind Me in 10k Years (jimkang.com)

1

The Magnus Archives Transcripts (snarp.github.io)

1

Silly booby traps in FreeBSD and NetBSD (rubenerd.com)

3

Five Whys (wikipedia.org)

34

A Web Framework for Zig (jetzig.dev)

1

The National UFO Reporting Center Online Database (nuforc.org)

1

SCP-1313 – Equation for Bear (wikidot.com)

2

Kitty Terminal Protocol Extensions (kovidgoyal.net)

1

Why Go Out (2013) (thoughtcatalog.com)

1

Two Sentence Journal (alexanderbjoy.com)

1

Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Converting HTML to Markdown (2024) (jina.ai)

3

The Search Engine for Vintage Computers (frogfind.com)

46

Touching the back wall of the Apple store (lauramichet.com)

3

Vanilla Web Components (github.com/vanillawc)

6

Stop Flirting with Me Just Because I'm Breathing (malusokay.substack.com)

1

Word Vomits (2012-2025) (visakanv.com)

3

Super Creepy Laptop Ad (jetgirl.art)

1

Mountains with a Fuji View (emgoto.com)

102

If nothing is curated, how do we find things (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

1

A Pose Reference Tool (justsketch.me)

1

W3C Core Style Sampler (w3.org)

3

About Green Screens and mouse-clickable UIs (pocnet.net)

3

Minimalist Mobile Phone (iamkate.com)

63

How to program a text adventure in C (helderman.github.io)

1

We hold our gadgets (2015) (alistapart.com)

1

Miniwebproxy – Proxy to the Miniweb (2017) (tedunangst.com)

4

Using a dedicated administration workstation for a home infrastructure (dataswamp.org)

1

Are Racks Bad for Snakes? [video] (youtube.com)

3

Enrichment Increases Brain Volume in Snakes [video] (youtube.com)

62

Learning to Program with Haiku (haiku-os.org)

103

The Church FAQ (scalzi.com)

2

Animal Grief (2015) (pbs.org)

2

Build a Text Editor with Rust (2021) (medium.com/otukof)

56

National Security Just Called, They Can't See the Email Traffic (mad-scientist.club)

1

How Competition Affects Writing (travisbrownwriting.com)

4

Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture (2014) (stanford.edu)

1

You Don't Learn (2016) (brennan.io)

2

A Simple and Efficient Implementation for Small Databases [pdf] (birrell.org)

2

Ancient hominin hands were a lot more like ours than we thought (cosmosmagazine.com)

4

Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project" (2010) (reprog.wordpress.com)

1

The Photos That Exposed American Child Labor (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

1

Feed Score, Take One (rachelbythebay.com)

3

The Ugliest Beautiful Codebase (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

51

What Is Generative Art? (2022) (amygoodchild.com)

3

Earners vs. Owners (profgalloway.com)

2

American Folklore Map (vox.com)

3

The GUI should be better. A lot better (youtube.com)

2

The Design of Evil (2019) (scifiinterfaces.com)

0

Inventing – For the Worse? (2017) (brainbaking.com)

2

Is It Time for You to Set Up Tailscale ACLs? (patshead.com)

1

Svelte 5 Runes – only dead fish follow the current (medium.com/kimkorte)

37

Photos of Silicon Valley (mkaz.com)

1

Black Ships and Samurai (visualizingcultures.mit.edu)

2

Memex Revisited [pdf] (worrydream.com)

145

Drawing.garden (drawing.garden)

1

Calling Out the Unsaid (sriramk.com)

100

You can't do that because I hate you (bvisness.me)

2

Terra Amata (Wikipedia) (wikipedia.org)

3

R83 – The Pick Operating System and Database (github.com/krowemoh)

1

Quantum Bogo Sort (2012) (c2.com)

1

Dave Learns How to Fork (2021) (ratfactor.com)

100

What if we replace guns and bullets with bows and arrows? (2022) (lowtechmagazine.com)

1

Endemic SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health (johnsnowproject.org)

2

Digital Abyss vs. Personal Gardens (j3s.sh)

25

Extend a C/C++ Project with Zig (2021) (zig.news)

3

A Dead Simple File Upload System (keep.sh)

2

I Quit Medicine (2016) (kwon.nyc)

1

Design and Disappointment (thomasorus.com)

1

What Is Semantic HTML? (thomasorus.com)

3

Reddit: Let's rewrite a better one in Common Lisp (2005) (groups.google.com)

1

Clash of the Islanders (2021) (torontolife.com)

1

Stupid Template Languages (2010) (pydanny.blogspot.com)

1

Ask HN: What are some interesting and different shells environments?

1

Evolutionary Tree of Life – Homininae (onezoom.org)

2

ActivityPub.Academy (jambor.dev)

1

Implementing Wc -l in a Browser (kowalczyk.info)

111

Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019) (3blue1brown.com)

239

Space Elevator (neal.fun)

1

Image Handling in Web Development (webjeda.com)

2

Chasing Rainbows (theverge.com)

2

Orphans of Netscape (mozz.us)

48

Becoming the first DevRel at Tailscale (tailscale.dev)

1

A coastline 100M years ago influences modern election results (reddit.com)

1

Messina Denaro: How Italy caught ‘most wanted’ mafia boss after 30 years (thelocal.it)