Blog: #structure

• Agnes Callard on why difficult old books make for independent minds — an interesting point I hadn’t thought much about before
• C. S. Lewis on reading old books — I reread this in connection with Agnes’s post and it’s still good
• Austin Kleon on books with unusual but brilliant structures — this kind of thing fascinates me
• Oz Nova on the cost of forsaking C — while I hardly ever program in C anymore and it’s still a footgun, I actually like it a lot
• Swyx on moving the default Git branch from master to main — something I’m planning to do with my personal repos

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• Kottke on duplicating keys from the sound they make in locks — freaky but also a fascinating area of research
• Chris Ferdinandi’s tutorial on service workers in vanilla JavaScript — I’ve been thinking lately of going more vanilla, less jQuery (yes, I know, I am old and outdated, but I am still a minimalist)
• Nabeel Qureshi on how video games are the future of education — and how to make learning stick; I’m thinking about exploring this space more
• The Twelve-Factor App — I recently reread this, good set of software engineering principles
• Film Crit Hulk on the myth of three-act structure — found this useful (with some strong language, which wasn’t as useful)

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