I read a lot of articles on a daily basis. But some of them really stand out to me: they give me food for thought, great insight into very interesting subjects, or are just generally eloquently written.

I thought that I’d compile a list of some of the best articles that I’ve read here.

Technology

Web

• Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing – Mathias Biilmann Christensen, November 2, 2015
• 1,000,000 Websites – Jacques Mattheij, July 24, 2015
• What one may find in robots.txt – Thiébaud Weksteen, May 17, 2014
• The State of JavaScript in 2015 – Jimmy Breck McKye, December 01, 2014
• Cool URIs don’t change – Tim Berners-Lee, 1998

Programming

• Kill Your Dependencies – Mike Perham, February 9, 2016
• Regexes: The Bad, the Better, and the Best – Liz Bennett, June 18, 2015
• Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard – Erik Trautman, February 04, 2015
• You can’t dig upwards – Evan Miller, December 07, 2014
• Readme Driven Development – Tom Preston-Werner, August 23, 2014
• Algorithm for playing Battleships – Data Genetics, December 2011
• Write the Docs – Eric Holscher & Troy Howard

Git

• A tidy, linear Git history – Bits’n’Bites, 23 December 2015
• The Git Parable – Tom Preston-Werner, 19 May 2009
• Merging vs. Rebasing – Atlassian

Language Design

• Word or LaTeX typesetting: which one is more productive? Finally, scientifically assessed – José Luis Blanco, April 6, 2015
• Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language – Wilfred Hughes, July 30, 2012
• Great Works in Programming Languages – Benjamin C. Pierce, December 01, 2004

Meta

• Bots won’t replace apps. Better apps will replace apps. – Dan Grover, April 20, 2016
• Why Performance Matters: The Perception Of Time – Denys Mishunov, September 24, 2015
• How I killed app sales by going freemium – Shuveb Hussain, June 6, 2015 (see HN thread too)

Art & Design

Web Design

• How to display threaded discussions on the web – Rian van der Merwe, September 21, 2015
• Everybody Scrolls – Rebecca Gordon and Evan Dody, December 03, 2014
• Can designers steal the best pricing techniques from restaurants? – Lior Frenkel, November 25, 2014
• Is Thoughtless Copy Ruining Your User Experience? – Michelle Taute, November 18, 2014
• 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI - Part 1 and Part 2 – Erik D. Kennedy, November 13, 2014
• Responsive Images in Practice – Eric Portis, November 04, 2014
• Web Design: The First 100 Years – Maciej Cegłowski, September 9, 2014
• Butterick’s Practical Typography – Matthew Butterick, 2010

Art

• Some JavaScript Sketches, Matt Deslauriers, October 13, 2015
• Fraunhofer lines – James Bridle, October 5, 2015

Other

• Fukushima, Arkadiusz Podniesiński, September 16, 2015

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