| 1. | | Webster’s Dictionary: The pleasure of finding things out (2014) (jsomers.net) |
| 35 points by hangsi 13 days ago | past | 4 comments |
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| 2. | | The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) (jsomers.net) |
| 420 points by jsomers 15 days ago | past | 144 comments |
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| 3. | | I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net) |
| 342 points by tyre 67 days ago | past | 130 comments |
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| 4. | | The paper computer (jsomers.net) |
| 291 points by jsomers 6 months ago | past | 89 comments |
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| 5. | | “It turns out” (2010) (jsomers.net) |
| 328 points by Munksgaard 7 months ago | past | 91 comments |
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| 6. | | Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) (jsomers.net) |
| 271 points by bschne 10 months ago | past | 130 comments |
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| 7. | | You're probably using the wrong dictionary (jsomers.net) |
| 2 points by ohjeez 10 months ago | past |
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| 8. | | The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction (jsomers.net) |
| 199 points by jsomers on Aug 25, 2025 | past | 53 comments |
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| 9. | | McPhee Method (jsomers.net) |
| 3 points by lispybanana on Aug 21, 2025 | past |
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| 10. | | The John McPhee Method (jsomers.net) |
| 4 points by skadamat on Aug 20, 2025 | past |
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| 11. | | I should have loved biology (jsomers.net) |
| 5 points by bilsbie on Aug 4, 2025 | past |
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| 12. | | I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net) |
| 2 points by thunderbong on July 21, 2025 | past |
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| 13. | | Feynman's Rigor (2009) (jsomers.net) |
| 7 points by jimsojim on April 25, 2025 | past |
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| 14. | | Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction] (jsomers.net) |
| 71 points by jsomers on April 16, 2025 | past | 17 comments |
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| 15. | | "It turns out" (2010) (jsomers.net) |
| 1 point by Tomte on March 22, 2025 | past |
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| 16. | | You're probably using the wrong dictionary (2014) (jsomers.net) |
| 2 points by Tomte on March 17, 2025 | past |
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| 17. | | DocWriter: Typewriter that sends real-time keystrokes to Google Doc (jsomers.net) |
| 3 points by ynac on Jan 28, 2025 | past |
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| 18. | | I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any doc's keystrokes (2014) (jsomers.net) |
| 1 point by jsomers on Jan 23, 2025 | past | 1 comment |
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| 19. | | John McPhee's Draft No. 4 [pdf] (jsomers.net) |
| 1 point by ilt on Oct 24, 2024 | past |
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| 20. | | Gettiers in software engineering (2019) (jsomers.net) |
| 303 points by FigurativeVoid on Oct 14, 2024 | past | 219 comments |
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| 21. | | Feynman's Rigor (2009) (jsomers.net) |
| 3 points by pbrowne011 on Sept 10, 2024 | past | 1 comment |
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| 22. | | I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net) |
| 685 points by paulgb on April 21, 2024 | past | 253 comments |
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| 23. | | The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis (jsomers.net) |
| 511 points by jsomers on March 21, 2024 | past | 213 comments |
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| 24. | | David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction [pdf] (jsomers.net) |
| 3 points by cybersoyuz on Nov 23, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| 25. | | More people should write (2012) (jsomers.net) |
| 160 points by jsomers on Nov 16, 2023 | past | 84 comments |
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| 26. | | List of the books I've read since college (jsomers.net) |
| 1 point by kubanczyk on Oct 8, 2023 | past |
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| 27. | | Using the Wrong Dictionary (2014) (jsomers.net) |
| 89 points by hdk on Sept 3, 2023 | past | 33 comments |
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| 28. | | More People Should Write (jsomers.net) |
| 3 points by debanjan16 on June 21, 2023 | past |
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| 29. | | Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) (jsomers.net) |
| 513 points by cal85 on June 13, 2023 | past | 183 comments |
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| 30. | | Learning to Hack: Exploratory computer science through Project Euler [pdf] (jsomers.net) |
| 4 points by ggr2342 on June 3, 2023 | past |
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