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user: alexharri created: 2022-11-08 karma: 1073 Website: https://alexharri.com GitHub: https://github.com/alexharri submissions: I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026 11 points | 1 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering 1353 points | 149 comments Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites 3 points | 0 comments Personal Information 3 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Rich Friend, Poor Friend (2022) 3 points | 0 comments The Myth of Rational Design (2010) 3 points | 1 comments The Age of Greater Reykjavík 2 points | 0 comments Social dynamics of Bluetooth speakers (2022) 1 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie 240 points | 81 comments Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013) 3 points | 0 comments Arguing point-by-point considered harmful 2 points | 0 comments Staring into the abyss as a core life skill (2022) 1 points | 0 comments Amazon's Antitrust Paradox (2017) 3 points | 0 comments AI is not our future 235 points | 168 comments The Icelandic Voting System (2024) 143 points | 143 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Four Kinds of Optimisation (2023) 41 points | 14 comments A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed 222 points | 41 comments