What I’m Reading

This page is for what I’m reading. A mixture of tech and culture, no real rhyme or reason here.

1. Email - Explained from First Principles

Archive

2023

• [1-2] January - February
  1. Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
  2. A Guide to the Go Garbage Collector - Golang Tips
  3. Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/s and Beyond - Drew Gallatin, NAB Show
  4. In Cambodia, Rats Are Being Trained To Sniff Out Land Mines And Save Lives - Michael Sullivan, NPR

2022

• [6] June
  1. An interactive mechanical watch visualization - Bartosz Ciechanowski
  2. Your API is Bad - Matthew Turland
  3. They’re Made out of Meat - Terry Bisson, 1991
• [7] July
  1. How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life - Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American
  2. Ignition! - John D. Clark, 1972
  3. Giving a Sh*t as a Service - Allen Pike
  4. Designing the Characters of ‘Cowboy Bebop’ - Animation Obsessive
  5. A toy remote login server - Julia Evans
  6. What they don’t teach you about sockets - Macoy Madson
  7. How Computers Boot Up - Gustavo Duarte
• [8] August
  1. Introduction to Apple Silicon - Asahi Linux
  2. Technical Reasons To Choose FreeBSD Over Linux - Unix Sheikh
  3. The Case of the Fake IMDB Credits - Pea Bee
  4. The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer - Ed Nather, USENET 1983
  5. Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride - By Derek Lowe
  6. The TTY demystified - Linus Åkesson
  7. The Productivity Tax You Pay for Context Switching - Elaine Meyer
  8. Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus - The Secret Lives of Data
  9. Visual Sum of Cubes - Harold Cooper
  10. #17: One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants - Pea Bee
• [9] September
  1. Why Birds Changed Their Tune During the Pandemic - Shoshi Parks, Atlas Obscura
  2. The Forty-Year Programmer - Noah Gibbs
  3. Redis Explained - Architecture Notes
  4. The Art of Monitoring - Book by James Turnbull
  5. Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors - MIT News
  6. Move a running process into a tmux session - Xai.sh
• [10] October
  1. The HTTP crash course nobody asked for - fasterthanlime
  2. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  3. The Jaunt - Stephen King
  4. How X Window Managers Work, And How To Write One - Chuan Ji
  5. How to communicate effectively as a developer - Karl Sutt
  6. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
• [11] November
  1. Making a Go program run 1.7x faster with a one character change - Harry Marr
  2. The Go Programming Language - Donovan & Kernighan
  3. The Database Cookbook For Developers - Tobias Petry
• [12] December
  1. Hyperion - Dan Simmons