Cowpin Picks

PG's long essay distilling how ambitious, original work actually gets made.

Nielsen's ten heuristics — the most-cited checklist in interface design.

A simple, ruthless filter for deciding what to commit to.

The go-to reference for front-end feature support across browsers.

Landmark interactive explanations of ML concepts.

Transparent, crowdsourced compensation data across tech companies.

Why rewriting software from scratch is the single worst strategic mistake.

A tidy reference of the psychological principles behind good interface design.

The clearest short summary of David Allen's GTD system.

Build and understand regular expressions with live explanation.

Eliezer Yudkowsky's sequences on thinking more clearly.

Why a single meeting can blow a whole afternoon of creative work.

A beautiful, opinionated book on typography for anyone who writes.

How engineers reach and operate at the staff+ level.

Community roadmaps for learning any dev role, step by step.

Hand-picked long-form journalism and essays from around the web.

The definitive guide to negotiating a tech salary; worth real money to read.

Practical, tactical visual-design advice for developers.

Research and data on the world's largest problems, beautifully presented.

A fast, systematic method for diagnosing performance problems.

The front page of startup and hacker culture.

The canonical deep-dive on React's useEffect mental model.

A big, well-organized library of thinking tools for better decisions.

Long-form, deeply-researched essays on tech, psychology, and statistics.

The classic methodology for building modern, portable web services.

Essays and a community focused on reasoning and decision-making.

A clear-eyed tour of how much of the software we rely on is quietly broken.

A vivid set of timelines that recalibrate your sense of scale.

Years of thoughtful essays on art, science, and how to live.

A readable weekly digest of what actually matters in AI.