A new podcast from Serial and This American Life. Hosted by Brian Reed.

Open Source Freelancer

Join Note to Self's Bored and Brilliant project to help you detach from your phone and spend more time thinking creatively.

Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.

In the mid-aughts I waited tables at a busy local landmark restaurant. It’s the kind of gig where you have no choice but hustle — big sections, quick ...

Generate color combinations in one click. Colormind creates cohesive color schemes using a deep neural net.

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about what it means to be a researcher. This is the result:

nicky case's simulation sketcher thing. program by drawing.

America’s self-reliance obsession makes it more acceptable to applaud working yourself to death than to argue that doing so points to a flawed economic system.

Uber is not only a scofflaw, but, as Mike Isaac of the New York Times reported last week, the company has been running an elaborate program to deceive and evade cops and other local officials in ci…

awesome-hyper - 🖥 Delightful Hyper plugins, themes, and resources

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

A retrospective on the technical interview process based on three months of searching for a job.

A number of prominent web folks have been asking for “container queries.” I think they’re right to do so, and here’s why.

Interesting pre-post hike analysis of health.

Concrete Shopify Theme Framework

As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in

Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?

In 1923, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for workers in his factory near Bordeaux. Le Corbusier duly delivered brigh…

A town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.

clean-code-javascript - :bathtub: Clean Code concepts adapted for JavaScript

By Jeremy Keith

For problem behavior, spanking and even time-out are a waste of time. Try this instead.