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Essays on programming, writing, science and attention by James Somers, whose work also appears in The New Yorker and The Atlantic.

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The paper computer
April 9th, 2026•jsomers.net
The McPhee method
August 17th, 2025•jsomers.net
Should we cool it with the historical present?
October 22nd, 2021•jsomers.net
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant
March 14th, 2019•jsomers.net
The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering
January 13th, 2019•jsomers.net
DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc
September 18th, 2017•jsomers.net
Most book clubs are doing it wrong
July 15th, 2017•jsomers.net
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
July 26th, 2015•jsomers.net
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes
November 10th, 2014•jsomers.net
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
May 18th, 2014•jsomers.net