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Index

I've written a lot of articles over the years. Some of them are over at selfimproving.dev, others on Medium. Most of those are of a particular theme (software development and Flutter & Dart, respectively), and will stay where they are.

But for a long time, I wanted a place of my own on which to publish my articles. Not really a “blog”, as it’s really just static pages generated from Markdown files. But something close to that.

Articles:

• “Math minus math” is wild
  I love this self-published little book from 2009 full of abstract math-inspired graphic art.
• Performance versus Preference
  Why the C programming language won over Lisp, why QWERTY is winning over Dvorak, and why our favorite hyperfixations aren’t as successful as they “obviously” deserve.
• Benchmarking Flutter, Flame, Unity and Godot
  What happens when you decide to benchmark Flutter as if it was a 2D game development framework.
• Welcome to the superstar economy
  It’s when “relatively small numbers of people earn enormous amounts of money and seem to dominate the fields in which they engage” (Sherwin Rosen, 1981).
• Respectfully, socialism is a bad idea
  I grew up in actual socialism, behind the Iron Curtain, and I find it a little bit worrying to see all these cool people promoting socialism these days.
• We need technology that is less immersive, not more
  How come so many of the most talented engineers of our time work on making our entertainment more immersive?
• (Personally) sustainable social media
  How does one use social media without falling into its traps?
• The engineering principles behind GIANT ROBOT GAME
  How this weird game is being built.
• Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed
  How to keep an external brain using ideas from 1945 and technology from 2023.
• Videogames that teach you stuff
  Videogames like SimCity or Dwarf Fortress aren’t exactly “educational”, but they still teach you a lot.

Hope you enjoy at least some of them.

— Filip Hráček