David Edgar's website

Monday, 10 January 2022

🔖 Have we forgotten how to read critically?

An essay in response to The Discourse on an excerpt from Heather Havilresky's book, in which she uses irony to state how she loves her husband despite his flaws.

Tuesday, 26 October 2021

🔖 Self-Care for Future Corpses

Even recording this as a bookmark feels like it is ignoring everything it says, and yet…

Friday, 15 October 2021

🔖 The Story Behind SingleStore’s Skiplist Indexes

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

🔖 A Simple Manifesto For Making Good Shit

Sunday, 26 September 2021

🔖 Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C

Let's Build a Simple Database

Monday, 06 September 2021

🔖 Demystifying Public Speaking

Lara Hogan's A Book Apart book on the web

🔖 On Parsers

A brain dump of information about parsers and their implementation

Sunday, 29 August 2021

🔖 VCs gave millions for this?

Monday, 02 August 2021

🔖 Grace Tame performs her poem, Hard Pressed

Tuesday, 20 July 2021

🔖 WHY BELONGING IS CRUCIAL IN TEAM CULTURE AND ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE

🔖 Imagine Your Flexible Office Work Future

🔖 the diminishing returns of productivity culture

🔖 Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?

🔖 Every Flag Is Black in a Fire

The history of the Black Flag

🔖 The Internet Is Rotting

🔖 The future of work is not threatening your employees

🔖 The Future of Remote Work is the Opposite of Lonely

🔖 The Prototype for Clubhouse Is 40 Years Old, and It Was Built by Phone Hackers

Tuesday, 06 July 2021

🔖 Reagan-Era Gen X Dogma Has No Place in Silicon Valley

Cyd Harrell, Civil tech writer, makes Marc Andreessen and other software capitalist pirates look like the bullshit artists they are

Friday, 02 July 2021

🔖 There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

Trees have evolved many times, similar idea to the multiple paths to crabs

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