From scratch genre

My talk on Getting Closure on Hooks was cited as a “first principles” talk, as is the follow-up on Concurrent React. I think all talks and blog posts in the From Scratch genre, like this on React Router, this on Redux, or this on the hardware-software interface, are great first principles fodder. There’s even an entire repo on GitHub for building your own X projects!.

You can explain everything

But of course, first principles can be applied far beyond code. The Drake Equation is a well-known first principles decomposition of the number of alien civilizations in our galaxy. You can ...