The Read-Watch-Listen list 🔖

This page is an attempt to list content I read, watched, and listened worthy of sharing!
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• Principal Engineer Roles Framework - Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec (www.linkedin.com)

• Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems - Alex Miller (transactional.blog)

• Consensus - Paxos, Raft, and all their flavors, variations, and alternatives. - Alex Miller (transactional.blog)

• How to find potential customers to interview about your startup - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Layers of context. - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• The Web’s the Place - Tim Bray (www.tbray.org)

• Seeing Like a Programmer (LambdaConf 2024) - Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards in Software Engineering - Chris Krycho (v5.chriskrycho.com)

• Constraints in Go - John Arundel (bitfieldconsulting.com)

• What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? - Phil Eaton (notes.eatonphil.com)

• Disaggregated OLTP Systems - Alex Miller (transactional.blog)

• Index for Designing Data Intensive Applications (DDIA) book - Murat Demirbas (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

• A $7 Subscription - David Cramer (Sentry) (cra.mr)

• Optimizing for Taste - David Cramer (Sentry) (cra.mr)

• You Suck at Marketing - David Cramer (Sentry) (cra.mr)

• 10 Elements of a High Converting Landing Page - Mailchimp Resource (mailchimp.com)

• The Iceberg Secret, Revealed - Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com)

• Testing Distributed Systems - Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems - Andrey Satarin (asatarin.github.io)

• An entire Social Network in 1.6GB (GraphD Part 2) - Jaz Co (jazco.dev)

• Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems - Colin Breck (blog.colinbreck.com)

• Beans and Noses - Jared Spool (archive.uie.com)

• Storing times for human events - Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)

• 100M Business Genius Reveals The Formula to Get Clients Effortlessly - Daniel Priestley, Neel Dhingra (www.youtube.com)

• Put down the compiler until you learn why they’re not buying - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year - Tom Preston-Werner (tom.preston-werner.com)

• Designer, Architect, Developer - Tom Preston-Werner (tom.preston-werner.com)

• Readme Driven Development - Tom Preston-Werner (tom.preston-werner.com)

• Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18 - Aaron Francis, Steve Tenuto (screencasting.com)

• How I ship projects at big tech companies - Sean Goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)

• Errors are values - Rob Pike (go.dev)

• Jeff Bezos in 2000 - Jeff Bezos, Charlie Rose (www.youtube.com)

• My product is my garden - Herman Martinus (herman.bearblog.dev)

• Diátaxis — A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring. - Daniele Procida (diataxis.fr)

• I ❤️ JWTs (JSON Web Tokens) - Sylvain Kerkour (kerkour.com)

• A Quick Primer on the Rule of 40 - Sam Baker (www.scalevp.com)

• No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Bit Twiddling Hacks - Sean Eron Anderson (graphics.stanford.edu)

• Consistent Hashing: Algorithmic Tradeoffs - Damian Gryski (dgryski.medium.com)

• Computer Optimization: Your Computer Is Faster Than You Think - Gwern Branwen (gwern.net)

• My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom - Ali Abdaal (www.youtube.com)

• Jeff Bezos at MIT Amazon - Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company - Jeff Bezos, Robert Frederick (www.youtube.com)

• My Heroku values - Adam Wiggins (gist.github.com)

• Wall Street’s Wisest Man - Charley Ellis, Jason Zweig (jasonzweig.com)

• Plain Text Accounting (PTA) - Simon Michael (plaintextaccounting.org)

• The Double-Entry Counting Method - Martin Blais (beancount.github.io)

• A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events - Jeremy Morrell (jeremymorrell.dev)

• The Muscle Building Expert: They’re Lying To You About Workout Hours! Dr Michael Israetel - Dr Michael Israetel, The Diary Of A CEO (www.youtube.com)

• Quick tip: A time-saving Makefile for your Go projects - Alex Edwards (www.alexedwards.net)

• Always Measure One Level Deeper - Performance measurements often go wrong, reporting surface-level results that are more marketing than science. - John Ousterhout (cacm.acm.org)

• Grok TiddlyWiki - Build a deep, lasting understanding of TiddlyWiki - Soren Bjornstad (groktiddlywiki.com)

• Experience TiddlyWiki Fluency: Creating a Reading List - Soren Bjornstad (www.youtube.com)

• Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018 - Joe Armstrong (www.youtube.com)

• A framework for building Open Graph images - Jason Etcovitch (Github) (github.blog)

• Being Staff Plus - Ian Cooper - NDC Oslo 2024 - Ian Cooper (www.youtube.com)

• Typography in ten minutes - Matthew Butterick (practicaltypography.com)

• HTML is for people - Blake Watson (htmlforpeople.com)

• Notes on Programming in C - Complexity - Programming with data. - Rob Pike (doc.cat-v.org)

• You’re a little company, now act like one - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• How to identify your ideal customer profile (ICP) - Lenny Rachitsky (www.lennysnewsletter.com)

• It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans - Erik Bernhardsson (erikbern.com)

• A Conversation with Charlie Munger & John Collison - Charlie Munger, John Collison (joincolossus.com)

• Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object - Kenton Varda (blog.cloudflare.com)

• Backup strategies for SQLite in production - Oldmoe (oldmoe.blog)

• The Code is your Enemy - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• API links vs keys: Why you should use links, not keys, to represent relationships in APIs - Martin Nally (cloud.google.com)

• Give me /events, not webhooks - Anthony Accomazzo (blog.sequinstream.com)

• The power of ten minutes a day - Alex Allain (medium.com)

• The career advice I wish I had at 25 - Shane Rodgers (www.linkedin.com)

• Professional-Programming - A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers - Charles-Axel Dein (github.com)

• Usage-Based Pricing Is Popular, But Is It Right For You? Our Rule of Thumb - Tugce Erten, Mark Regan (a16z.com)

• Give it five minutes - Jason Fried (signalvnoise.com)

• Indie Consulting - Jason Liu (jxnl.co)

• Part 1: How to get your first 100 customers - Free marketing tactics to get traction - Iron Brands (1millionarr.substack.com)

• How to find the first 100 customers for your startup - Vinay Koshy (www.startups.com)

• 6 foolproof ways to get your startup its first 100 customers - Gilles DC (blog.salesflare.com)

• ftrace: trace your kernel functions! - Julia Evans (jvns.ca)

• Legacy - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• How I failed - A candid post about some of the things that kept me, my employees, and our company from achieving our full potential. - Tim O’Reilly (www.oreilly.com)

• The Founder Mode Tradeoff - Kent Beck (tidyfirst.substack.com)

• Do what is close to you - Tobias van Schneider (vanschneider.com)

• 7 pieces of portfolio advice from 7 years of running Semplice - Tobias van Schneider (vanschneider.com)

• The Importance and Effect of Sample Size - Sarah Littler (select-statistics.co.uk)

• Cryptographic Right Answers - Latacora (www.latacora.com)

• You can't tell people anything - Chip Morningstar (habitatchronicles.com)

• The SaaS Pricing Fundamentals I Used To Become a Millionaire - Rob Walling (www.youtube.com)

• An argument for logging off - Aaron Francis (aaronfrancis.com)

• SOC2: The Screenshots Will Continue Until Security Improves - Thomas Ptacek (fly.io)

• The SOC2 Starting Seven - Latacora, LLC (www.latacora.com)

• Starting Up Security - Ryan McGeehan (scrty.io)

• On Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners and Theft. - Simon Wardley (blog.gardeviance.org)

• API design guide - Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)

• Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API - Vinay Sahni (www.vinaysahni.com)

• The First Rule of Machine Learning - Eugene Yan (applyingml.com)

• Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering - Martin Zinkevich (developers.google.com)

• What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs - Eugene Yan, Bryan Bischof, Charles Frye, Hamel Husain, Jason Liu, Shreya Shankar (applied-llms.org)

• Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time - Alex Chan (alexwlchan.net)

• Falsehoods programmers believe about time - Noah Sussman (gist.github.com)

• The 5 Minute Rule for Trading Memory for Disc Accesses and the 5 Byte Rule for Trading Memory for CPU Time - Jim Gray, Franco Putzolu (dsf.berkeley.edu)

• Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods - Jeff Hodges (www.somethingsimilar.com)

• Nobody Cares - Ben Horowitz (a16z.com)

• Designing Depth - Rauno Freiberg (rauno.me)

• SQLite performance tuning - phiresky (phiresky.github.io)

• Best practices for SQLite performance - Android Developers (developer.android.com)

• Understanding the Performance Implications of Storage-Disaggregated Databases - Murat Demirbas (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

• Great Animations - Emil Kowalski (emilkowal.ski)

• Worse, but unique - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Breaking the Ceiling: Scaling Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level - Thiago Ghisi (www.infoq.com)

• Simplicity - Rob Pike (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

• Packages as layers, not groups - Ben johnson (www.gobeyond.dev)

• Finding an Audience for Your Side Business - Arvid Kahl (thebootstrappedfounder.com)

• How I would do auth - Pilcrow (pilcrowonpaper.com)

• The 7 Baby Steps Explained (Top Criticisms Addressed) - Dave Ramsey (www.youtube.com)

• How to create software quality. - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers - Maggie Appleton (maggieappleton.com)

• The Death of the Junior Developer - Steve Yegge (sourcegraph.com)

• Writing generic collection types in Go: the missing documentation - Zach Musgrave (www.dolthub.com)

• Gail Goodman: How to Negotiate the Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death - Gail Goodman (businessofsoftware.org)

• Your first 10 customers — Scrappily start your sales process by identifying, approaching, and converting prospects into customers one at a time (for a start). - Patrick McKenzie (stripe.com)

• A Bootstrapped SaaS Journey to $10K MRR - Jon Yongfook (www.bannerbear.com)

• How to get your first ten customers - Max Rozen (onlineornot.com)

• The SIM Swapping Bible: What To Do When SIM-Swapping Happens To You - CipherBlade (medium.com)

• Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality - Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com)

• Not Just Scale - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It - Brandur (brandur.org)

• Eradicating N+1s: The Two-phase Data Load and Render Pattern in Go - Brandur (brandur.org)

• Go: Don't name packages common nouns - Brandur (brandur.org)

• Resource: Landing Pages - How do you write an enticing homepage? - Julian Shapiro (www.julian.com)

• Ultimate Guide to Multi-Tenant SaaS Data Modelling - Brandon Bayer (www.flightcontrol.dev)

• Building a multi-tenant SaaS data model - Tim Nolet (www.checklyhq.com)

• Teams should be an MVP feature! - Andrew Culver (blog.bullettrain.co)

• Pushing Java to the Limits: Processing a Billion Rows in under 2 Seconds by ROY VAN RIJN - Roy Van Rijn (www.youtube.com)

• DuckDB Doesn’t Need Data To Be a Database - Nikolas Göbel (www.nikolasgoebel.com)

• Taking Risk - Tom Bloomfield (tomblomfield.com)

• Imperfections create connections - David Heinemeier Hansson (world.hey.com)

• Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting - smudge.ai (smudge.ai)

• Zed Decoded: Rope & SumTree - Thorsten Ball, Nathan Sobo, Antonio Scandurra, Max Brunsfeld (zed.dev)

• Reading a Profit & Loss statement. - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• Downturn career decisions. - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• Why books donʼt work - Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak.org)

• Algorithms for Modern Hardware - Sergey Slotin (en.algorithmica.org)

• Learnable Programming - Designing a programming system for understanding programs - Bret Victor (worrydream.com)

• What I think about when I edit - Eva Parish (evaparish.com)

• Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself - Jason Liu (jxnl.github.io)

• Learning to Learn - Jason Liu (jxnl.co)

• Cache-Control: Cheat Sheet - Shayan Taslim (shayy.org)

• What if you tried hard? - Aaron Francis (aaronfrancis.com)

• Naked Business: How Honesty Makes You More Money – Jason Cohen – MicroConf 2012 - Jason Cohen (www.youtube.com)

• Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink | TEDxUniversityofNevada - Jocko Willink (www.youtube.com)

• Hire managers of one - Basecamp (signalvnoise.com)

• One Billion Row Challenge in Golang - From 95s to 1.96s - Renato Pereira (r2p.dev)

• Navigating the unpredictability of everything - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Invisible Details of Interaction Design - Rauno Freiberg (rauno.me)

• Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• The Hiring Post - Thomas H. Ptacek (sockpuppet.org)

• Wealth shown to scale - Matt Korostoff (mkorostoff.github.io)

• How Do You Spend Your Time? - Career advice, or something like it. - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• The Builder’s Guide to Better Mousetraps - A little rubric for making a tough decision. - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• Time to upgrade your monitor - Nikita Prokopov (tonsky.me)

• How RocksDB works - Artem Krylysov (artem.krylysov.com)

• Scalability! But at what COST? - Adrian Colyer (blog.acolyer.org)

• Part 0: Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Introduction - Marc Andreessen (pmarchive.com)

• How startups beat incumbents - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Advanced command execution in Go with os/exec - Krzysztof Kowalczyk (blog.kowalczyk.info)

• 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Not using Go diagnostics tooling - Profiling and Execution Tracing in Go - Steph Ango (100go.co)

• File over app - Steph Ango (stephango.com)

• How I build web frontends in Go - Philipp Tanlak (philipptanlak.com)

• Optimizing SQLite for servers - Sylvain Kerkour (kerkour.com)

• How To Center a Div — The Ultimate Guide to Centering in CSS - Josh W. Comeau (www.joshwcomeau.com)

• How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years - Mat Ryer (grafana.com)

• A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell (piccalil.li)

• Scaling DynamoDB: How partitions, hot keys, and split for heat impact performance (Part 2: Querying) - Jason Hunter, Vivek Natarajan (aws.amazon.com)

• Accounting For Developers, Part I - Lucas Rocha (www.moderntreasury.com)

• Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash - Kyra Dempsey (asteriskmag.com)

• Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• What is Scalability Anyway? - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• Pick one and own it - What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger. - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• OAuth 2 Simplified - Aaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)

• Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Competitor Research and Strategy - Patrick Campbell (patticus.com)

• The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Willingness to look stupid - Dan Luu (danluu.com)

• First do it, then do it right, then do it better. - Addy Osmani (addyo.substack.com)

• What No One Tells You Before Buying a Business - Codie Sanchez (contrarianthinking.co)

• Issue #6 - the document outline - Manuel Matuzović (www.htmhell.dev)

• Selling To The Fortune 500, Government, And Other Lovecraftian Horrors - Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (training.kalzumeus.com)

• You don't need JavaScript for that - Kilian Valkhof (www.htmhell.dev)

• Things to know about engineering levels - Charity Majors (charity.wtf)

• S3-Compatible Cloud Storage Costs - Alex Miller (transactional.blog)

• 42 things I learned from building a production database - Mahesh Balakrishnan (maheshba.bitbucket.io)

• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 28th, 2022 - Todd Hoff (highscalability.com)

• Sell Your By-products - Jason Fried (signalvnoise.com)

• Making Games in Go for Absolute Beginners - Miłosz Smółka (threedots.tech)

• Logging in Go with Slog: The Ultimate Guide - Ayooluwa Isaiah (betterstack.com)

• Log Formatting in Production: 9 Best Practices - Ayooluwa Isaiah (betterstack.com)

• Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed - Evan Jones (www.evanjones.ca)

• An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid - Josh W. Comeau (www.joshwcomeau.com)

• Working with stacked branches in Git is easier with --update-refs - Andrew Lock (andrewlock.net)

• The Generative AI Revolution in Games - James Gwertzman and Jack Soslow (a16z.com)

• Prompt Engineering Guide - Dair.ai (www.promptingguide.ai)

• How to use Stable Diffusion - Andrew (stable-diffusion-art.com)

• Transformers, Explained: Understand the Model Behind GPT-3, BERT, and T5 - Dale Markowitz (daleonai.com)

• How Stable Diffusion Works - Chris McCormick (mccormickml.com)

• Software 2.0 - Andrej Karpathy (karpathy.medium.com)

• I made an infographic to explain how stable diffusion works in simple terms - u/UnavailableUsername_ (www.reddit.com)

• How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole) - Charity Majors (charity.wtf)

• Building Codiga: Building an Iteration Engine - Julien Delange (juli1.substack.com)

• Building Codiga: Fundraising - Julien Delange (juli1.substack.com)

• Malleable software in the age of LLMs - Geoffrey Litt (www.geoffreylitt.com)

• The elegance of nothing - What ever happened to details? - Seth Godin (seths.blog)

• Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming - Rob Pike (users.ece.utexas.edu)

• The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility - Josh W. Comeau (www.joshwcomeau.com)

• Manual Work is a Bug - A.B.A: always be automating - Thomas A. Limoncelli (queue.acm.org)

• Redis: Pipelining, Transactions and Lua Scripts - Rafael Eyng (rafaeleyng.github.io)

• Specify hosts in ansible-playbook command line - Kévin Keovilay (www.dbi-services.com)

• Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples - John Arundel (bitfieldconsulting.com)

• Ansible 101 - Standards - Collection of Ansible standards based on my experience. - John Wadleigh (www.ansiblejunky.com)

• JavaScript: Load Order, defer, async, module - Xah Lee (xahlee.info)

• Unbundling AI - Benedict Evans (www.ben-evans.com)

• Type parameters in Go - John Arundel (bitfieldconsulting.com)

• Financial Advice for My New Son - Morgan Housel (www.fool.com)

• Renting is throwing money away … right? - Paula Pant (affordanything.com)

• The Art of the OKR, Redux - Christina Wodtke (eleganthack.com)

• The 10 commandments of navigating code reviews - Angie Jones (angiejones.tech)

• CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers - Stanford University (cs007.blog)

• Scott Adams’ Financial Advice - Matt Cutts (www.mattcutts.com)

• The Written Word - Morgan Housel (collabfund.com)

• What I learned from Writing Without Bullshit - Norbert Hires (www.norberthires.blog)

• Debugging Teams (book) - Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman (book.debuggingteams.com)

• OPP (Other People’s Problems) - Camille Fournier (www.elidedbranches.com)

• Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions - Ian Nowland (inowland.medium.com)

• Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners [Wardley] - Itamar Goldminz (orghacking.com)

• Hints for Distributed Systems Design - Murat Demirbas (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

• Organizing a Go module - Go team (go.dev)

• Python as a build tool - Nikita Prokopov (tonsky.me)

• Great Talks Most People Have Never Heard - James Clear (jamesclear.com)

• Building personal and organizational prestige - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• Making Large Language Models work for you - Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)

• Biz Talk session with Gary Vaynerchuk and Jason Fried - Gary Vaynerchuk, Jason Fried (archive.org)

• Mastering curl: interactive text guide - Anton Zhiyanov (antonz.org)

• Steve Jobs Archive - Steve Jobs Archive, LLC (stevejobsarchive.com)

• Prioritizing and Planning within Heroku Postgres - Craig Kerstiens (www.craigkerstiens.com)

• Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better. - Addy Osmani (addyosmani.com)

• Intelligent vs. Smart - Morgan Housel (collabfund.com)

• When customers are “willing” to pay - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• How to Read: Lots of Inputs and a Strong Filter - Morgan Housel (collabfund.com)

• The Spectrum of Financial Dependence and Independence - Morgan Housel (collabfund.com)

• Building a $1 Million Business Solo with Mike Perham of Sidekiq - Courtland Allen, Mike Perham (www.indiehackers.com)

• Lessons Learned Running Presto At Meta Scale - Todd Hoff (highscalability.com)

• Backing Up Everything (Again) - Tyler Hall (tyler.io)

• Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub - Matt Linderman, Chris Wanstrath (signalvnoise.com)

• Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree - Matt Linderman, Bryan Johnson (signalvnoise.com)

• The P9 Guide to Cohort Analysis in SaaS (v0.9) - Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) - Christoph Janz (medium.com)

• Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 - Andy Warfield, Werner Vogels (www.allthingsdistributed.com)

• Don't expect to be motivated everyday - Addy Osmani (addyosmani.com)

• As investors, how often should we check stock prices? - 10-K Diver (twitter.com)

• Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias - Advice from “successful entrepreneurs” might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What’s real, and what’s random? - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns - The Programmer's Priorities - Scott Hanselman (www.hanselman.com)

• Do you have to love what you do? - Jason Fried (world.hey.com)

• Founder & CEO is kinda a BS title - Jason Fried (world.hey.com)

• Why you should go after a market with strong demand - Justin Jackson (justinjackson.ca)

• The internet wants to be fragmented - Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work. - Noah Smith (www.noahpinion.blog)

• Reliable Cron across the Planet ...or How I stopped worrying and learned to love time - Štěpán Davidovič, Kavita Guliani, Google (queue.acm.org)

• LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively - Larry McEnerney (www.youtube.com)

• Excuse me, is there a problem? - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Don’t waste the good days - Seth Godin (seths.blog)

• Prioritizing tasks using the Eisenhower matrix - Addy Osmani (addyosmani.com)

• How to Stop Procrastinating Using the 70% Rule - Taylor Pearson (taylorpearson.me)

• Origin Story - Scott Galloway (www.profgalloway.com)

• Load Balancing: The Intuition Behind the Power of Two Random Choices - Mihir Sathe (medium.com)

• PyCon US 2023 Talks - Andrew Godwin: Reconciling Everything - Andrew Godwin (www.youtube.com)

• Tech debt metaphor maximalism - Avery Pennarun (@apenwarr) (apenwarr.ca)

• How the ‘3 Pillars of Observability’ Miss the Big Picture - Danyel Fisher (thenewstack.io)

• Modern CSS in Real Life - Chris Coyier (chriscoyier.net)

• Anything You Want cartoons - Philosophies on life and business, 7 chapters from my book, turned into short little animations. - Derek Sivers (sive.rs)

• Some blogging myths - Julia Evans (jvns.ca)

• All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs - Phillip Carter (www.honeycomb.io)

• Testing in Production: Why You Should Never Stop Doing It - Charity Majors (www.honeycomb.io)

• HyperLogLog - visual helper guide - Daniel James Harper (djhworld.github.io)

• Overthinking - Sylvain Kerkour (kerkour.com)

• Engineer vs Entrepreneur Mindset - Sylvain Kerkour (kerkour.com)

• How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy” - James Clear (jamesclear.com)

• 40 Years of Stanford Research Found That People With This One Quality Are More Likely to Succeed - James Clear (jamesclear.com)

• Earnings, Cash Flows and Free Cash Flows: A Primer - Aswath Damodaran (aswathdamodaran.substack.com)

• Why Chatbots Are Not the Future - Amelia Wattenberger (wattenberger.com)

• How to start a Go project in 2023 - Ben E. C. Boyter (boyter.org)

• You can have two Big Things, but not three - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Why I Love Boring Tech Startups - It pays to create boring technology that everyone needs - Matt Watson (blog.visionarycto.com)

• My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated - Deprecated should be my middle name - Matt Watson (blog.visionarycto.com)

• Release Early, Release Often - Eric S. Raymond (www.catb.org)

• Fast/Slow in 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract - Kent Beck (medium.com)

• Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck - Kent Beck (softwareengineeringdaily.com)

• Creator Flywheels - The Operating System for Your Business - Nathan Barry (nathanbarry.com)

• The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No - James Clear (jamesclear.com)

• Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds - James Clear (jamesclear.com)

• Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. - James Clear (jamesclear.com)

• How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• So Good They Can't Ignore You (book summary) - Cedric Chin (commoncog.com)

• How to do what you love and make good money - Derek Sivers (sive.rs)

• How to change or build your career - Derek Sivers (sive.rs)

• Derek Sivers — Finding Paths Less Traveled, Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” - Derek Sivers, Tim Ferriss (www.youtube.com)

• The Enshittification Lifecycle of Online Platforms - Jason Kottke (kottke.org)

• Anything You Want - 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur - Derek Sivers (sive.rs)

• The Tao of Go - John Arundel (bitfieldconsulting.com)

• Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide - Liam Rosen (liamrosen.com)

• Ideas are just a multiplier of execution - Derek Sivers (sive.rs)

• Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You - Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com)

• Systems design 2: What we hope we know - Avery Pennarun (@apenwarr) (apenwarr.ca)

• Excuse me, is there a problem? - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Efficiency trades off against resiliency - Nelson Elhage (blog.nelhage.com)

• The Full Circle on Developer Productivity with Steve Yegge - Steve Yegge, Gergely Orosz (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

• YC’s Essential Startup Advice - Geoff Ralston, Michael Seibel (www.ycombinator.com)

• Oxy: the journey of graceful restarts - Chris Branch (blog.cloudflare.com)

• Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer: Controversial Advice - Gergely Orosz (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

• Nintendo - The Complete History & Strategy of Nintendo - Acquired Podcast (www.acquired.fm)

• Computing Accurate Percentiles with DDSketch - Charles Masson (www.datadoghq.com)

• Revisiting 'The Ideal Bootstrapped Business' with Jason Cohen - Jason Cohen, Adam Wathan, Ben Orenstein (open.spotify.com)

• Startup Playbook - Sam Altman, Gregory Koberger (playbook.samaltman.com)

• @levelsio and survivorship bias - Krzysztof Kowalczyk (blog.kowalczyk.info)

• Advanced markdown processing in Go - Krzysztof Kowalczyk (blog.kowalczyk.info)

• Learn Makefiles - With the tastiest examples - Chase Lambert (makefiletutorial.com)

• ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”! - Stephen Wolfram (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

• Cheating is All You Need - Steve Yegge (about.sourcegraph.com)

• Deploys Are the ✨WRONG✨ Way to Change User Experience - Charity Majors (www.honeycomb.io)

• AWS re:Invent 2018: Close Loops & Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small ARC337 - Colm MacCárthaigh (www.youtube.com)

• Navigating the unpredictability of everything - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Valuation Undergraduate Spring 2023 - Aswath Damodaran (www.youtube.com)

• Systems design explains the world: volume 1 - Avery Pennarun (@apenwarr) (apenwarr.ca)

• How Bullshit Has Dominated The Tech Industry - fulalas (medium.com)

• Understanding People Matters More Than Understanding Tech - Dan Moore (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)

• How to recalculate a spreadsheet - lord.io (lord.io)

• How to help someone use a computer. - Phil Agre (pages.gseis.ucla.edu)

• Write plain text files - Derek Sivers (sive.rs)

• The small web is beautiful - Ben Hoyt (benhoyt.com)

• The Dance of the Bees: Finding Your Path as a Creator - Chris Wong (chr.iswong.com)

• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero - Andrej Karpathy (karpathy.ai)

• Technical Writing for Developers - Eluda (css-tricks.com)

• Website Accessibility (15 Best Practices) - Bruce Lawson (websitesetup.org)

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• UX Writing: Study Guide - Anna Kaley (www.nngroup.com)

• Getting Big Things Done - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• Teams should be an MVP feature! - Andrew Culver (blog.bullettrain.co)

• Page Weight Matters - Chris Zacharias (blog.chriszacharias.com)

• A half-hour to learn Rust - Amos (@fasterthanlime) (fasterthanli.me)

• Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT - Stephen Wolfram (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

• Hearts, Minds, Wallets: the simple structure for a successful startup pitch - Ben Yoskovitz (www.focusedchaos.co)

• Motivating Your Team - Magic Questions - Matt Mochary (www.loom.com)

• I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead. - Jason Cohen (blog.asmartbear.com)

• Exactly How I Cold Emailed My Way to A Life-Changing Exit (And You Can Too) - Laura Roeder (lauraroeder.com)

• My Top to Bottom System For Running a 7-Figure, Bootstrapped Business Part-Time - Laura Roeder (lauraroeder.com)

• Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all - Werner Vogels (www.allthingsdistributed.com)

• Diving Deep on S3 Consistency - Werner Vogels (www.allthingsdistributed.com)

• A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications - Werner Vogels (www.allthingsdistributed.com)

• 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services - Werner Vogels (www.allthingsdistributed.com)

• The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? - Stephen Wolfram (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

• Not disruptive, and proud of it - Jason Cohen (blog.asmartbear.com)

• How Often Should We Check Stock Prices? - 10-K Diver (twitter.com)

• Moats: Durable competitive advantage - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• Pricing low-touch SaaS - Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (stripe.com)

• Kung Fu - Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. - Jason Cohen (blog.asmartbear.com)

• Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company - Jason Cohen (blog.asmartbear.com)

• Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas - Jason Cohen (longform.asmartbear.com)

• How Honeycomb Manages Incident Response - Fred Hebert (www.honeycomb.io)

• Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 1: The Living Word - Ben Hunt (www.epsilontheory.com)

• The Magic of Sampling, and its Limitations - Russ Cox (research.swtch.com)

• Invest in things that don't change - David Heinemeier Hansson (world.hey.com)

• A Simple State Machine Framework in Go - Venil Noronha (venilnoronha.io)

• Big Data Is Dead - Jordan Tigani (motherduck.com)

• The Rule of Three - Jeff Atwood (blog.codinghorror.com)

• You're asking “why serverless?” Let's talk! - Jack Christie, Khawaja Shams (www.gomomento.com)

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• Scaling DynamoDB: How partitions, hot keys, and split for heat impact performance (Part 3: Summary and best practices) - Jason Hunter, Vivek Natarajan (aws.amazon.com)

• Amazon ECS Scalability Best Practices - Nathan Peck (nathanpeck.com)

• A career ending mistake - John Arundel (bitfieldconsulting.com)

• Lessons not worth learning. - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• Startup = Growth - Paul Graham (www.paulgraham.com)

• Scaling to $100 Million - Mary D'Onofrio, Ethan Ding (www.bvp.com)

• What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 - Ulrich Drepper (lwn.net)

• How to market your dev tool on Hacker News: Learnings from Tailscale - Kuba Czakon (www.developermarkepear.com)

• 10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals - Troy Hunt (www.troyhunt.com)

• Arnold Schwarzenegger 2018 - The speech that broke the internet - Most Inspiring ever - Arnold Schwarzenegger (www.youtube.com)

• Autofocus: The Productivity System That Treats Your To-Do List Like a River - Brett & Kate McKay (www.artofmanliness.com)

• AWS re:Invent 2022 (all videos) - AWS Events (www.youtube.com)

• Live your best life with structured events - Charity Majors (charity.wtf)

• My CI/CD pipeline is my release captain - Clare Liguori (aws.amazon.com)

• Scaling with common sense - Kailash Nadh (zerodha.tech)

• Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters - Rich Hickey (www.youtube.com)

• You can out-spend or out-teach - Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users) (headrush.typepad.com)

• An Interactive Guide to Flexbox - Josh W. Comeau (www.joshwcomeau.com)

• How can you not be romantic about programming? - Thorsten Ball (thorstenball.com)

• AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries - AWS Whitepaper (docs.aws.amazon.com)

• 50 Entrepreneurs share priceless advice - Multiple founders/entrepreneurs (www.youtube.com)

• What to blog about - Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)

• Writing Is Magic - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• Camels and Rubber Duckies - Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com)

• Why We Choose Profit at 37signals - 37signals (37signals.com)

• Exponential growth devours and corrupts - David Heinemeier Hansson - DHH (m.signalvnoise.com)

• How an Anti-Growth Mentality Helped Basecamp Grow to Over 2 Million Customers - Hiten Shah (nira.com)

• Building Self-Serve Go-to-Market with Adam Gross - Adam Gross (www.heavybit.com)

• Hell Yeah or No - what's worth doing - Derek Sivers (sive.rs)

• Friday Deploy Freezes are Exactly Like Murderring Puppies - Charity Majors (charity.wtf)

• The Grug Brained Developer - A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained - Carson Gross (grugbrain.dev)

• Warren Buffett Archive - Warren Buffett (buffett.cnbc.com)

• The Importance of Career Laddering - Sarah Drasner (css-tricks.com)

• Why Systems Fail and Problems Sprout Anew - Commentary on the principles of 'Systemantics' - Anthony Judge (laetusinpraesens.org)

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• Effective 'Effective' Books - Scott Meyers (scottmeyers.blogspot.com)

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• High Performance Go Workshop - Dave Cheney (dave.cheney.net)

• The hierarchy is bullshit (and bad for business) - Charity Majors (charity.wtf)

• The Three Sides of Risk - Morgan Housel (collabfund.com)

• Dirtbag Millionaires - Chris Mamula (eatthefinancialelephant.com)

• The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement - Mr. Money Mustache (www.mrmoneymustache.com)

• ECMAScript modules in browsers - Jake Archibald (jakearchibald.com)

• How to win at CORS - Jake Archibald (jakearchibald.com)

• Caching best practices & max-age gotchas - Jake Archibald (jakearchibald.com)

• All the missing SQLite functions - Anton Zhiyanov (and others) (github.com)

• Redis Explained - Mahdi Yusuf (architecturenotes.co)

• Remote development with Rust on fly.io - Amos (@fasterthanlime) (fasterthanli.me)

• A Regular Expression Matcher - Rob Pike, Brian Kernighan (www.cs.princeton.edu)

• My Blog is Hilariously Overengineered to the Point People Think it's a Static Site - Xe Iaso (Christine Dodrill) (xeiaso.net)

• Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch - Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one - Hannah Ritchie (worksinprogress.substack.com)

• Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life - Derek Thompson (www.theatlantic.com)

• Incident Review and Postmortem Best Practices - Gergely Orosz (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

• The Wilderness Period - Can Your SaaS Startup Cross the Penny Gap? - David Sacks (sacks.substack.com)

• SQLite: Past, Present, and Future - Kevin P Gaffney (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Martin Prammer (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Laurence C Brasfield (SQLite devs), Richard Hipp (SQLite.org), Dan R Kennedy (Sqlite), Jignesh Patel (UW - Madison) (vldb.org)

• The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande (sive.rs)

• How to present to executives. - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• How to streamline your processes as an engineering manager - Managing managers - Sarah Drasner (leaddev.com)

• How video works - Leandro Moreira (howvideo.works)

• Seven Shipping Principles - 37signals (37signals.com)

• Turn 1 piece of dev content into 10+ — use the buffalo stick - Jason Lengstorf (www.jason.af)

• Becoming a Better Writer - Gergely Orosz (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

• Writing for Engineers - Heinrich Hartmann (www.heinrichhartmann.com)

• Testing Microservices: A Sane Approach Pre-Production & In Production - Cindy Sridharan (www.youtube.com)

• Observability for emerging infra: Charity Majors - Charity Majors (www.youtube.com)

• Release Engineering Keynote | Chuck Rossi | Talks at Google - Chuck Rossi (www.youtube.com)

• Rapid release at massive scale - Chuck Rossi (engineering.fb.com)

• How to Build a Startup Without Funding - Pieter Levels (@levelsio) (www.youtube.com)

• Avoiding the Pitfalls of Taking on a New Role - Deb Liu (debliu.substack.com)

• Make the First 90 Days Count - A Simple 30-60-90 Day Plan - Deb Liu (debliu.substack.com)

• Who Builds a House Without Drawing Blueprints? - Leslie Lamport (cacm.acm.org)

• The Bias No One Talks About - How workplaces favor those who speak up, and what you can do about it - Deb Liu (debliu.substack.com)

• On Writing Tech Specs - Chuck Groom (codeburst.io)

• Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon - Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com)

• Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week - Patrick McKenzie (www.kalzumeus.com)

• How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think - Patrick McKenzie (www.kalzumeus.com)

• How to Build a Solo SaaS Sales Machine - Steli Efti - MicroConf 2015 - Steli Efti (www.youtube.com)

• Leveling Up - Patrick McKenzie (Patio11) - MicroConf 2015 - Patrick McKenzie (www.youtube.com)

• Distributed Tracing — we've been doing it wrong - Cindy Sridharan (copyconstruct.medium.com)

• So You Want To Build An Observability Tool... - Charity Majors (www.honeycomb.io)

• Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen - #microconf2013 - Jason Cohen (www.youtube.com)

• Being visible - Will Larson (staffeng.com)

• Staying aligned with authority - Will Larson (staffeng.com)

• Work on what matters - Will Larson (staffeng.com)

• The New American Micro-SaaS Dream - Rauno Metsa (microfounder.com)

• When do ideas get easier to find? - Eric Gilliam (freaktakes.substack.com)

• Get your work recognized: write a brag document - Julia Evans (jvns.ca)

• Finding the right company - Will Larson (staffeng.com)

• A Tale of Elephants - How I grew a tool to impact thousands of engineers at Amazon - Carlos Arguelles (medium.com)

• The Day I Lost my Job at Microsoft - Sometimes bad things happen so that good things can happen - Carlos Arguelles (medium.com)

• The business of SaaS - Patrick McKenzie (Stripe) (stripe.com)

• On Being A Senior Engineer - John Allspaw (www.kitchensoap.com)

• Your Code May Be Elegant - Leon Fayer (omniti.com)

• What's a senior engineer's job? - Julia Evans (jvns.ca)

• Some career advice. - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework - Jeff Bezos (www.youtube.com)

• There's always time to launch your dream - David Heinemeier Hansson (signalvnoise.com)

• Charity Majors’ Recipe for High-Performing Teams - Charity Majors (thenewstack.io)

• Professional Programming: The First 10 Years - Thorsten Ball (thorstenball.com)

• Why to start a startup in a bad economy - Paul Graham (www.paulgraham.com)

• Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud - Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, Mark McGranaghan (www.inkandswitch.com)

• Errors are constructed, not discovered - Fred Hebert (ferd.ca)

• Testing in Production: the hard parts - Cindy Sridharan (copyconstruct.medium.com)

• A forty-year career. - Will Larson (lethain.com)

• What do Staff engineers actually do? - Will Larson (staffeng.com)

• Scripting with Go - John Arundel (bitfieldconsulting.com)

• Against essential and accidental complexity - Dan Luu (danluu.com)

• Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? - Dan Luu (danluu.com)

• What is Amazon? - Zack Kanter (zackkanter.com)

• Why every Software Engineering Interview should include Ops Questions - Charity Majors (charity.wtf)

• Questionable Advice: The Trap of the Premature Senior - Charity Majors (charity.wtf)

• Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice - Dan Luu (danluu.com)

• Digital Advertising in 2022 - Ben Thompson (stratechery.com)

• Animate Anything Along an SVG Path - Louis Hoebregts (tympanus.net)

• How can you tell if the company you're interviewing with is rotten on the inside? - Charity Majors (charity.wtf)

• Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace - Tristan Hume (blog.janestreet.com)

• Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions - Troy Hunt (www.troyhunt.com)

• Choose Boring Technology - Dan McKinley (boringtechnology.club)

• Remix vs Next.js - Ryan Florence (remix.run)

• Planning and Preparing For Your Next Role - Rachel Lee Nabors (yougotthis.io)

• What Color is Your Function? - Bob Nystrom (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

• A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development (TDD + Prod = ODD) - Charity Majors (thenewstack.io)

• What NPM Should Do Today To Stop A New Colors Attack Tomorrow - Russ Cox (research.swtch.com)

• The official ten-year retrospective of NewSQL databases - Andy Pavlo (youtu.be)

• Have high expectations for your computers - Julia Evans (jvns.ca)

• Consider SQLite - Wesley Aptekar-Cassels (blog.wesleyac.com)

• SQLite is not a toy database - Anton Zhiyanov (antonz.org)

• Everything Easy is Hard Again - Frank Chimero (frankchimero.com)

• Our Software Dependency Problem - Russ Cox (research.swtch.com)

• Lightweight is the right weight - Tinyverse (www.tinyverse.org)

• 95%-ile isn't that good - Dan Luu (danluu.com)

• These things I believe - Jono (jonoscript.wordpress.com)

• Performance is a Feature - Jeff Atwood (blog.codinghorror.com)

• Darker Corners of Go - Rytis Bieliunas (rytisbiel.com)

• Discipline Makes Strong Developers - Jeff Atwood (blog.codinghorror.com)

• Everyone has JavaScript, right? - Kryogenix (kryogenix.org)

• Defensive CSS - Ahmad Shadeed (ishadeed.com)

• Reading postmortems - Dan Luu (danluu.com)

• Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too - Pieter Levels (levels.io)

• NASA: Napping Just 26 Minutes Can Improve Job Performance by a Third - Jessica Stillman (www.inc.com)

• Joe Rogan Experience #1309 - Naval Ravikant - Joe Rogan & Naval Ravikant (www.youtube.com)

• Red Rocks + 15 Minutes + K-sorted IDs - Brandur (brandur.org)

• Identity Crisis: Sequence v. UUID as Primary Key - Brandur (brandur.org)

• Building a High Performance Text Editor - Will Bond (wbond.net)

• Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies - Nayuki (www.nayuki.io)

• The Amazon Way of Writing - How to write clearly and influence people - Network Capital (networkcapital.substack.com)

• Living a Startup Double Life - Managing your startup project while staying employed full-time - Patrick Metzdorf (medium.com)

• Before the Startup with Paul Graham (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 3) - Paul Graham (www.youtube.com)

• Brooks, Wirth and Go. - Fredrik Holmqvist (www.fredrikholmqvist.com)

• Why Erlang? - Fredrik Holmqvist (www.fredrikholmqvist.com)

• Why I Hate Frameworks, Benji Smith. - Fredrik Holmqvist (www.fredrikholmqvist.com)

• The 18 mistakes that kill startups - Paul Graham (paulgraham.com)

• Learning Math for Machine Learning - Vincent Chen (www.ycombinator.com)

• Daily Builds Are Your Friend - Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com)

• Fire And Motion - Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com)

• Things You Should Never Do, Part I - Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com)

• SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp - Richard Hipp (www.youtube.com)

• Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together - Steve Francia (thenewstack.io)

• Collection of my favorite optimization posts and articles - Ben E. C. Boyter (boyter.org)

• Abusing AWS Lambda to make an Aussie Search Engine - Ben E. C. Boyter (boyter.org)

• React 2014 - Responding in a Timely Manner - Martin Thompson (www.youtube.com)

• Software disenchantment - Nikita Prokopov (tonsky.me)

• What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not - Gergely Orosz (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

• Technical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly (noidea.dog)

• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum - Gergely Orosz (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

• How to Get Startup Ideas - Paul Graham (www.paulgraham.com)

• Ritholtz's Masters in Business: Aswath Damodaran Interview - Barry Ritholtz & Aswath Damodaran (www.stitcher.com)

• The Top Idea In Your Mind - Paul Graham (www.paulgraham.com)

• Relentlessly Resourceful - Paul Graham (www.paulgraham.com)

• How I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time - Jason Kester (www.expatsoftware.com)

• Pitching your early stage startup - Patrick McKenzie (Stripe) (stripe.com)

• The Simple Path to Wealth | JL Collins | Talks at Google - JL Collins (www.youtube.com)

• Adjacent Possible: Model for Peeking into the Future - Simon Hørup Eskildsen (sirupsen.com)

• So you want to write a GUI framework - Colin Rofls (www.cmyr.net)

• Tail Latency Might Matter More Than You Think - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• Is the Mean Really Useless? - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• The Value of Stories in Business | Aswath Damodaran | Talks at Google - Aswath Damodaran (www.youtube.com)

• Warren Buffet's Life Advice Will Change Your Future - Warren Buffet (www.youtube.com)

• Valuation in Four Lessons | Aswath Damodaran | Talks at Google - Aswath Damodaran (www.youtube.com)

• Equities Myths - Things you should know about investing - Paul Lutus (arachnoid.com)

• How to Get Rich - Naval (nav.al)

• Boundaries Book Summary, by Henry Cloud, John Townsend - Allen Cheng (www.allencheng.com)

• What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing - Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Anurag Khandelwal, Joao Carreira, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, David A. Patterson (cacm.acm.org)

• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples - Tony Rogers (shine solutions group) (shinesolutions.com)

• 1,000 True Fans - Kevin Kelly (kk.org)

• 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice - Kevin Kelly (kk.org)

• 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice - Kevin Kelly (kk.org)

• RECONSIDER - David Heinemeier Hansson - DHH (m.signalvnoise.com)

• Index 1,600,000,000 Keys with Automata and Rust (fst) - Andrew Gallant (blog.burntsushi.net)

• Rust is for Professionals - Gregory Szorc (gregoryszorc.com)

• The New Money Trust: How Large Money Managers Control Our Economy and What We Can Do About It - Graham Steele (www.economicliberties.us)

• Epic Stock Market Crashes - Guide on how to take advantage of the next recession - Raph Antoine aka Banker on Wheels (www.bankeronwheels.com)

• Gotchas in the Go Network Packages Defaults - Martin Baillie (martin.baillie.id)

• Effective Go - Go Team (golang.org)

• Timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitter - Marc Brooker (aws.amazon.com)

• Using load shedding to avoid overload - David Yanacek (aws.amazon.com)

• GopherCon 2018: Rethinking Classical Concurrency Patterns - Bryan C. Mills (www.youtube.com)

• Advanced Go Concurrency - André Eriksson (encore.dev)

• Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More (a16z Podcast) - Colin Bryar, Bill Carr, Sonal Chokshi (open.spotify.com)

• Visualizing Algorithms - Mike Bostock (bost.ocks.org)

• Remote work is not local work at a distance - Jason Fried (world.hey.com)

• Streams—The definitive guide - Thomas Steiner (web.dev)

• Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee - Colm MacCárthaigh (aws.amazon.com)

• Structured concurrency (Kotlin) - Roman Elizarov (www.youtube.com)

• The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz - Brian Knappenberger - Luminant Media (www.youtube.com)

• The Coming Software Apocalypse - James Somers (www.theatlantic.com)

• The Best Fat Loss Article on the Motherfuckin’ Internet - Aadam (physiqonomics.com)

• ARE WE REALLY ENGINEERS? - Hillel Wayne (www.hillelwayne.com)

• Learn Kotlin by Example - JetBrains (play.kotlinlang.org)

• Things your manager might not know - Julia Evans (jvns.ca)

• Automating safe, hands-off deployments - Clare Liguori (aws.amazon.com)

• Workload isolation using shuffle-sharding - Colm MacCárthaigh (aws.amazon.com)

• Docker Compose: a nice way to set up a dev environment - Julia Evans (jvns.ca)

• My Philosophy on Alerting (SRE) - Rob Ewaschuk (docs.google.com)

• The Art of the Awkward 1:1 - Mark Rabkin (medium.com)

• Stack Overflow: A Technical Deconstruction - Nick Craver (nickcraver.com)

• The days are long but the decades are short - Sam Altman (blog.samaltman.com)

• Building Product - Michael Seibel (www.youtube.com)

• Beating the Averages - Paul Graham (paulgraham.com)

• Do things that don't scale - Paul Graham (paulgraham.com)

• The Zen of Go - Dave Cheney (dave.cheney.net)

• One process programming notes (with Go and SQLite) - David Crawshaw (crawshaw.io)

• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule - Paul Graham (www.paulgraham.com)

• my thoughts on, and how i approach code reviews - Ivo Anjo (ivoanjo.me)

• Embracing asynchronous communication - Gitlab (about.gitlab.com)

• What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap - Patrick McKenzie (www.kalzumeus.com)

• Multi-Cloud is the Worst Practice - Corey Quinn (www.lastweekinaws.com)

• Why we choose profit - Jason Fried (m.signalvnoise.com)

• How I learned to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage - The Impostor's Advantage - Zain Rizvi (www.zainrizvi.io)

• Avoiding overload in distributed systems by putting the smaller service in control - Joe Magerramov (aws.amazon.com)

• Google Drive is production - Look at me, I'm the source of truth now - Vicki Boykis (vicki.substack.com)

• Ten Years of Erlang - Fred Hebert (ferd.ca)

• Awk in 20 Minutes - Fred Hebert (ferd.ca)

• Eye Opening Speeches (compilation) - Denzel Washington (www.youtube.com)

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge - James Somers (www.newyorker.com)

• SQLite and Go - David Crawshaw (www.youtube.com)

• Profiling React.js Performance - Addy Osmani (addyosmani.com)

• How NOT to Measure Latency - Gil Tene (www.youtube.com)

• How to write the perfect pull request - Keavy McMinn (github.blog)

• The Art of Comments - Sarah Drasner (css-tricks.com)

• WHAT I LEARNED FROM PROGRAMMING DATABASES - Philip O'Toole (www.philipotoole.com)

• MIT: How To Speak - Patrick Winston (www.youtube.com)

• The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie (www.youtube.com)

• The Tail End - Tim Urban (waitbutwhy.com)

• HOW HTTPS WORKS - (howhttps.works)

• Hype Yourself! You're Worth It! - Aashni Shah (aashni.me)

• A Toxic Work Culture Is Forcing High-Performing People to Quit - Tim Denning (www.linkedin.com)

• GOTO 2019 • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir - Saša Jurić (www.youtube.com)

• Learning to build distributed systems - Marc Brooker (brooker.co.za)

• Twitter Lite and High Performance React Progressive Web Apps at Scale - Paul Armstrong (medium.com)

• Your Company Culture is Who You Hire, Fire, and Promote - Cameron Sepah (medium.com)

• Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey (www.youtube.com)

• Maybe Not - Rich Hickey (www.youtube.com)

• Big companies v. startups - Dan Luu (danluu.com)

• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued - Patrick McKenzie (www.kalzumeus.com)

• Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice - Patrick McKenzie (www.kalzumeus.com)

• Choose Boring Technology - Dan McKinley (mcfunley.com)

• The Cost Of JavaScript In 2019 - Addy Osmani (v8.dev)

• The Cost Of JavaScript In 2018 - Addy Osmani (medium.com)

• The Clean Architecture - Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) (blog.cleancoder.com)

• Solid Ground - Saša Jurić (www.youtube.com)

• What Does It Take To Be An Expert At Python? - James Powell (www.youtube.com)

• Go for Industrial Programming - Peter Bourgon (peter.bourgon.org)

• UTC is enough for everyone ...right? - Zach Holman (zachholman.com)

• RabbitMQ vs Kafka Part 1 - Two Different Takes on Messaging - Jack Vanlighty (jack-vanlightly.com)

• The Mess We're In - Joe Armstrong (www.youtube.com)

• WHY RACKET? WHY LISP? - Matthew Butterick (practicaltypography.com)

• Elixir - Erlang didn't change, the world did - Thomas O'Rourke (tomjoro.github.io)

• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction - Jay Kreps (engineering.linkedin.com)

• JavaScript for extending low-latency in-memory key-value stores - Adrian Colyer (blog.acolyer.org)

• Hitchhiker's Tour of the BEAM - Robert Virding (www.youtube.com)

• The beauty of data visualization (TED-ed) - David McCandless (www.youtube.com)

• Go Tooling in Action - Francesc Campoy (www.youtube.com)

• Why Amazon is eating the world - Zack Kanter (techcrunch.com)

• Better Software—No Matter What: The Most Important Design Guideline - Scott Meyers (vimeo.com)

• Computing: The first 100 years (Full Stack Fest 2016) - Joe Armstrong (www.youtube.com)

• Stanford Seminar - Faults, Scaling, and Erlang Concurrency - Joe Armstrong (www.youtube.com)

• Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup - Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz (www.youtube.com)

• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 - Jose Aguinaga (hackernoon.com)

• Ten reasons not to use a statically typed functional programming language - Scott Wlaschin (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)

• Recommended Reading for Developers - Jeff Atwood (blog.codinghorror.com)

• NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program? - David Haney (www.davidhaney.io)

• Just Say No to More End-to-End Tests - Mike Wacker (testing.googleblog.com)

• Go Proverbs - Rob Pike (www.youtube.com)

• Space Yourself - Marcin Wichary (www.smashingmagazine.com)

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson (markmanson.net)

• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - Peter Norvig (norvig.com)

• WHAT IS CODE? - Paul Ford (www.bloomberg.com)

• Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown - Ben Kamens (bjk5.com)

• Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer - Henry Robinson (www.the-paper-trail.org)

• MIT: Introduction to Algorithms - Prof. Erik Demaine, Prof. Srini Devadas (ocw.mit.edu)

• Continuous Integration - Martin Fowler (martinfowler.com)

• The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs - Guy Kawasaki (www.youtube.com)

• ABC: Always Be Coding - How to Land an Engineering Job - David Byttow (medium.com)

• MAPREDUCE PATTERNS, ALGORITHMS, AND USE CASES - Ilya Katsov (highlyscalable.wordpress.com)

• The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. - Matt Might (matt.might.net)

• Why mobile web apps are slow - Drew Crawford (sealedabstract.com)

• Things Every Programmer Should Know - Byron Kiourtzoglou (www.javacodegeeks.com)