Sheon Han

Sheon Han is a writer and programmer based in Palo Alto, California. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Quanta magazine, and elsewhere.

Machine Readable

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

Dec 1, 2025 7:00 AM

AI as Americanizer

The End of Accents

Oct 27, 2025 6:00 AM

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Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke

May 22, 2025 6:00 AM

Everything’s Computer

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Mar 27, 2025 6:00 AM

Machine Readable

Attention, Spoiled Software Engineers: Take a Lesson from Google’s Programming Language

Sep 23, 2024 6:30 AM

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Inside the Cult of the Haskell Programmer

May 13, 2024 6:00 AM

Machine Readable

JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally

Mar 4, 2024 6:00 AM

Ideas

The Hypocrisy of Judging Those Who Become More Beautiful

Sep 25, 2023 6:00 AM

WIRED Software Review

How Google Docs Proved the Power of Less

May 9, 2023 9:00 AM

WIRED Software Review

The Case for Software Criticism

Feb 23, 2023 9:00 AM