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Blogs I keep coming back to, and the books and films that stayed with me.

blogs I love

  • Amos Wenger — fasterthanli.me
    Rust, systems programming, and genuinely funny writing about debugging pain.
    rust
  • Simon Willison's Weblog
    Fast, honest notes on whatever he’s currently building. Great model for "thinking in public."
    building
  • Dan Luu
    Long, data-backed essays on infra, hiring, and why intuition about performance is usually wrong.
    infra
  • Julia Evans — jvns.ca
    Comics-style deep dives on systems internals. The gold standard for making hard things legible.
    systems

books

  • Thinking in Systems

    Donella Meadows

  • The Pragmatic Programmer

    Hunt & Thomas

  • A Philosophy of Software Design

    John Ousterhout

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmann

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