What I'm Reading

[1-4] January - April

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
5. Email - Explained from First Principles
6. VALORANT’s 128-Tick Servers - Riot Games
7. Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux - Asahi Linux
8. Bicycle - Bartosz Ciechanowski
9. LWN - The early days of Linux - Lars Wirzenius

[5-8] May - August

1. Seeing Like A State - Scott Alexander
2. How to Drop Out - Ran Prieur
3. Choosing a Name for Your Computer - D. Libes
4. A Theory of Modern Golang - Peter Bourgon
5. Why is my dryer radioactive? - Physics Stack Exchange
6. Memory Allocation - Sam Who Dot Dev
7. Collections: How To Raise a Roman Army: The Dilectus - Bret Devereaux
8. Politics is the Mind-Killer - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Less Wrong
9. Underwater Ears Everywhere - J.B. Crawford
10. Displayport: A Better Video Interface - Arya Voronova, Hackaday

[9-12] September - December

1. Absurd Success - Marginalia
2. A Regular Expression Matcher - Brian Kernighan
3. Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale - Doug Seven
4. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware - Raymond Chen
5. How to present to executives. - Will Larson
6. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - James Iry
7. Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01 - seiya.me
8. Why I Hate Frameworks - Benji Smith

[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