Jacob Young - Writing

I learned to program the way a lot of people did: I locked myself in a room one summer and didn’t come out until I’d built a video game.

After losing a MacBook Pro recently, 10 years of hand-written settings I depend on were gone.

Redirecting to You Are Not Your Job.

I keep coming back to this idea that consistency compounds.

We are living through a great convergence of software tooling.

Saying “I am a software engineer” is beginning to feel like saying “I am a calculator” in 1950 now that digital machines can use electrical circuits to count, add, multiply - it’s not long until they’ll be able differentiate a non-continuous function… You…

I recently crossed into another decade of life.

Reflections on my second week at The Recurse Center.

This is a summary of my first week at The Recurse Center, which is a 12-week retreat for programmers.

Keeping a low profile online is an important and lost skill.