2024
- A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018), Bill Clark (Riot Games)
- DHH Is Right About Everything, Primeagen, TJ DeVries, DHH
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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