A love letter to my future employer (2020)

catzkorn.dev

I didn’t expect the be confronted with it so soon, but week four of the Makers pre-course has guided me down the path of starting the first draft of my CV. I wasn’t ready for this. All the underlying thoughts … Read more

A love letter to the CSV format

github.com
a-love-letter-to-the-csv-format

Or why people pretending CSV is dead are wrong Every month or so, a new blog article declaring the near demise of CSV in favor of some “obviously superior” format (parquet, newline-delimited JSON, MessagePack records etc.) find its ways to … Read more

A Letter to the American People

18f.org
a-letter-to-the-american-people

March 1, 2025 For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving you to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient … Read more

A letter to open-source maintainers

xuanwo.io

Here is a letter to all friends who are or aspire to be open-source maintainers. I have repeated many of these core ideas in various places. I believe it’s better to write them in a letter so that I don’t … Read more

The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)

mathoverflow.net
the-letter-℘:-name-and-origin?-(2017)

My own answer, about the name of the letter $wp$. Mostly in computing, with little math. (Lengthy) In computing, the letter $wp$ has been plagued with a plethora of inappropriate names. I guess “Weierstrass p” is one of such names … Read more

Open Letter to the European Commission

nixos.org

Initially published by petites singularités. English translation provided by OW2. If you want to sign the letter, please re-publish the original letter on your website and add to the list of signatories. Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part … Read more