Collection

2024

• A Context-Aware Character Dialog System, Jason Gregory (Naughty Doc)
• When should I use String vs &str?, Steve Klabnik
• Egoless Engineering, Dan McKinley
• You Must Read At Least One Book To Ride, Nikhil Suresh
• The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time, Justin Skycak
• Obsessive problem solving followed by aimless wandering, David Heinemeier Hansson
• Algorithms we develop software by, Grant Slatton
• The Carefulness Knob, Lorin Hochstein
• Learning Rust in 2024, pretzelhammer
• Using Rust in Non-Rust Servers to Improve Performance, pretzelhammer
• Psychological Safety vs. High Standards: A Misunderstood Dynamic, Sheril Mathews
• Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years, David Heinemeier Hansson
• Options as a Strategic Investment (5th Edition), Lawrence G. McMillan
• Get Me Out Of Data Hell, Nikhil Suresh ⭐
• The Copenhagen Book: Guidelines on Implementing Auth in Web Applications, Pilcrow
• Unusual Holidays, near
• Don’t let dicts spoil your code (2021), Roman Imankulov
• A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018), Bill Clark (Riot Games)
• DHH Is Right About Everything, Primeagen, TJ DeVries, David Heinemeier Hansson
• I am tired of AI, Bas Dijkstra
• The best $4 ever spent, Greg Gilbert (Papa Notes)
• OpenTelemetry Tracing in 200 lines of code, Jeremy Morrell
• OAuth from First Principles, Stack Auth
• Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech, Ian Betteridge
• How GitHub taught me to Micromanage, Matthew Rocklin
• Making a rickroll laser: a parametric speaker, Maurycy
• Be a Thermostat, Not a Thermometer, Lara Hogan
• Reflections on Founder Mode, Bryan Cantrill (Oxide Computer)
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall ⭐
• Create an internal CLI, Chay Choong
• Did you lose your Airpods?, Alex Yancey
• An underrated software engineering interview question, Jake Zimmerman
• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, Ryan Singer ⭐ ⭐
• Whither CockroachDB?, Bryan Cantrill (Oxide Computer)
• How I Use “AI”, Nicholas Carlini
• How to get to know someone (2018), Noor Siddiqui
• Running One-man Saas, 9 Years In, Pēteris Caune
• How to Query (Almost) Everything, Predrag Gruevski
• Programming for Kids, Borislav Nikolov ⭐
• The Unix Pipe Card Game, Borislav Nikolov
• Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design, Dark Patterns
• The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements (and on HN), Tabitha Carvan
• Choose Boring Technology (2015) (updated talk), Dan McKinley ⭐
• Radical Simplicity in Technology, Stephan Schmidt
• The Right Kind of Stubborn, Paul Graham
• The case against ultrasonic humidifiers, Dynomight
• the software crisis, wryl
• “Technical” skills, Sasha Laundy
• sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services, Thomas Eizinger
• You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020), Ben Kuhn
• I received an AI email, Tim Hårek
• Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host, Michael Stapelberg
• On Burnout, Mental Health, And Not Being Okay, Nikhil Suresh
• I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again, Nikhil Suresh
• Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way), Joshua Stein
• A Bunch of Programming Advice I’d Give to Myself 15 Years Ago, Marcus Buffet
• Simple sabotage for software (2023), Erik Bernhardsson
• Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity, Stefan Theard
• How to Get the Most out of Postgres Memory Settings, Shaun Thomas (Tembo)
• Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers, Maggie Appleton
• Cloud Performance on a “Toy” Computer: From Python to Rust, Matt Mastracci
• Don’t worry about LLMs (PyCon Italia 2024), Vicki Boykis
• Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL, Matt Bessey
• The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (2013), Amir Hirsch
• 100 Exercises To Learn Rust, Luca Palmieri
• How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future (TED), Scott Galloway
• The follow lie, and why it’s worse than ever, Louis Barclay
• The Man Who Killed Google Search, Edward Zitron
• Why you need a “WTF Notebook” (2021), Nat Bennett
• Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014), Julia Evans
• Thoughts on Code Reviews (2021), Kendall Morgan
• Mario meets Pareto, Antoine Mayerowitz
• DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics, GitLab
• 10 > 64, in QR codes, Huon Wilson
• The I in LLM Stands for Intelligence, Daniel Stenberg ⭐
• Ten principles for good design (1970s), Dieter Rams (Vitsœ)
• Linux Crisis Tools, Brendan Gregg
• Tidy First?, Henrik Warne ⭐
• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014), Adam Drake ⭐
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (1973), Ursula Le Guin
• The Inner Ring (1965), C.S. Lewis
• Abraham Wald and the airplane diagram with red bullet holes (2022), Cameron Moll
• Getting Things Done In A Chaotic Environment, Stay SaaSy
• Friends Don’t Let Friends Make Bad Graphs, Chenxin Li
• JavaScript Bloat in 2024, Nikita Prokopov
• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) (2018), Tim Urban
• How I Taught the Illiad to Chinese Teenagers (2021), Tanner Greer
• Popular git config options, Julia Evans
• Taking on the Monopoly, Nir Zicherman
• Is something bugging you?, Will Wilson (Antithesis)
• Balancing Engineering Cultures: Debate Everything vs. Just Tell Me What To Build, Adam Fishman
• Good Inside, Becky Kennedy ⭐

2023

• Throw away your first draft of your code, Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya
• Software that Fits in Your Backpack, Marc
• Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank’s website, Cal Paterson (csvbase)
• Getting things done (in small increments) (2022), Patrick Dubroy
• O(1) Build File, Alex Kladov
• Intelligence is not Enough (Monktoberfest 2023), Bryan Cantrill
• How to communicate effectively as a developer (2022), Karl Sutt
• Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse (2012), Marianne Jennings
• Diamonds Suck! (2006), Josh Kaufman
• Why Rust in Production?, Matthias Endler (Corrode)
• How to (and how not to) design REST APIs, Jeff Schnitzer
• The Ideation Flywheel: A mental model for deciding which startup ideas to pursue, Camin McCluskey
• Software disenchantment, Nikita Prokopov ⭐
• Analyzing Data 180,000x Faster with Rust, Will Crichton
• 6 Archetypes of Broken Ownership, Alex Ewerlöf (+comment)
• Populating the page: how browsers work, Mozilla
• Thread-per-core, Saoirse (without.boats)
• Red Blob Games: Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms, Amit Patel ⭐
• A Hackers’ Guide to Language Models, Jeremy Howard
• A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B, Lenny Rachitsky
• How to Communicate When Trust Is Low, Charity Majors
• Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007), Randy Pausch
• Graceful behavior at capacity, Nelson Elhage
• Postmortem Analysis in Cargo, Jon Gjengset and Weihang Lo on behalf of The Cargo Team
• How Modernity Made Us Allergic, Theresa MacPhail
• Writing Python like it’s Rust, Jakub Beránek
• Write Python like Rust (2020), Chris Oates
• A Collection of Quant Riddles With Answers, Nigel Coldwell
• How a startup loses its spark, John Qian (+comment)
• Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
• How a single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch, Dani Grant
• Why you should teach at a Community College, Timo Zander
• Stop saying “technical debt”, Chelsea Troy
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, Adam Grant ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
• (Anti-)Application Video for YC120 (2019), Bryan Cantrill
• The Summer of Rust (2018), Bryan Cantrill

2022

• Wi is Fi, Jerry Jongerius ⭐
• The best engineering interview question I’ve ever gotten, Arthur O’Dwyer
• The Grug Brained Developer, Carson Gross (Big Sky Software)
• The Code Review Pyramid, Gunnar Morling
• The definitive list of good and bad apples, Brian Frange
• Mechanical Watch, Bartosz Ciechanowski
• Coming Of Age (Monktoberfest 2022), Bryan Cantrill ⭐
• The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions, Brandur Leach
• How NAT traversal works (2020), David Anderson
• Zero To Production in Rust, Luca Palmieri ⭐
• Blessed: An unofficial guide to the Rust ecosystem
• Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell The Cries Apart, and What to Do, Mike Skarupke
• How a QR Code Works, Dan Hollick

2021

• IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District, Minh Duong
• Fast Rust Builds, Alex Kladov ⭐
• Oxide Hiring Process, Oxide Computer ⭐
• Compensation as a Reflection of Values, Bryan Cantrill (Oxide Computer) (+comment) ⭐
• Principles, Oxide Computer
• Principles of Technology Leadership (Monktoberfest 2017), Bryan Cantrill ⭐
• Kids can’t use computers…and this is why it should worry you (2013), Marc Scott
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• Intentionally Making Close Friends, Neel Nanda

2020

• Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
• Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, Christopher Wylie
• Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You, Steve Yegge
• The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
• Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport ⭐
• It’s Time to Start Writing, Alex Nixon
• The Tail End, Tim Urban ⭐
• 3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust, Jake McGinty (Tonari)
• Radical Candor, Kim Scott
• Deep Work, Cal Newport ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
• How Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon’s Competitive Advantage, Ben Bashaw
• Startup Playbook, Sam Altman
• Atomic Habits, James Clear ⭐
• It’s Time to Build, Marc Andreessen
• The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard (Second Edition), Iain E. Richardson
• CS Unplugged: Computer Science without a computer, Tim Bell, Ian Witten, and Mike Fellows
• Software Folklore: A collection of weird bug stories, Andreas Zwinkau
• The Missing Semester of CS Education, MIT
• Hours, Anne Ogborn

Pre-2020

• In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (2001), Joel Spolsky
• Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016), Haseeb Qureshi ⭐
• Nominology (2011), Daniel Reeves
• “Startup Names” by Paul Graham (2006), republished by Daniel Reeves
• GitHub Flow Like a Pro with these 13 Git Aliases (2014), Phil Haack
• My favorite Git commit, David Thompson ⭐
• Ian’s Shoelace Site, Ian Fieggen ⭐
• How Will You Measure Your Life?, Clayton M. Christensen ⭐
• The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen
• Git from the inside out, Mary Rose Cook
• A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring, Daniele Procida ⭐
• The Rust Programming Language, Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
• Expecting Better, Emily Oster
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo ⭐
• Cracking the Coding Interview, Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel ⭐
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki 👎
• How to Think Like an MIT Media Lab Inventor, Ramesh Raskar ⭐
• Rethinking the Science Poster (see also YouTube), American Psychological Association ⭐

TODO

• Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, Abigail Shrier
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed, Ben Rich
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, Richard Rumelt
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness, Morgan Housel
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker
• Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t, Jim Collins
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, Tony Hsieh
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport
• Getting Things Done, David Allen
• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Normam
• The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
• Creativity, Inc, Ed Catmull
• Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon
• Work Rules!, Laszlo Bock
• The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
• Raving Fans, Kenneth Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles