Blogroll

created 2026-04-14 · modified 2025-04-14

A list of blog or site that I like, with a set of interesting articles.

Mathematics & Computer Science

• Nicholas Carlini. AI safety, security.
  • Why I attack (2024). Why you can chose your research topic.
  • A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023). An obfuscation exercice.
• Terence Tao’s What’s New.
  • Career advice. A lot of obvious and non-obvious advices.
  • 245A, Notes 5: Differentiation theorems (2011). So you want to differentiate this integral?

Technology, Programming, General Computing

• Fernando Borretti. tools, rust.
  • You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy (2025). An argument to still use Emacs 😅
  • Unbundling Tools for Thought (2022). Don’t use a centralized tool.
• Clément Bœsch pkh blog. Very interesting articles on graphics
  • Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity (2025). Going from an explanation of a render to the obfuscated version.
  • A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos (2025). A follow up on specific tricks
• Bartosz Ciechanowski visualizations. explorables
  • Mechanical watches (2022). I had no idea as a profane on the topic.
  • Airfoil (2024). Fluid dynamics without fluid dynamics.
• Dynomight blog. Various topics: AI, writing, some lists.
  • Creative nonfiction training exercises (2022). Ideas of generic writings that may interest others, or not.
  • DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum (2025). Numpy for GPUs from scratch
• Gwern. AI, rationalist. ✨
  • The Scaling Hypothesis (2020-2022). Bigger is better before it is obvious.
  • Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning (2009-2019). Litterature review on the impact of spaced repetition.
• Dan Luu. software engineering.
  • Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022). building over buying
  • Terminal latency (2017). eshell is slow.
• Amit Patel blog from Red Blob Games (amazing site on gamedev). gamedev, emacs, map generators. ✨
  • Little Design Things (2019). Making of redblobgames.
  • Introduction to the A* Algorithm (2014-2023). The famous tutorial on A*.
• Fabien Sanglard. retrocomputing.
  • Building a Quake PC series (2026). An ode to the hardware when I was a teenager.
  • Duke Nukem 3D code review series (2013). One of the early code review by Sanglard.

Webcomics

• xkcd. Hard to limit myself on two … ✨
  • Standards (2011). on explain xkcd but this one is quite obvious
  • Duty Calls (2008). on explain xkcd