Lists
Published
July 11, 2025
The lists are in no particular order
My Content
️Videos 📺
Favorites
Talks 🗣️
- Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? by Bryan Cantrill
- A Wardrobe for the Emperor: Stitching practical bias into systems software research by Bryan Cantrill
- Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017
- Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
- Social Audio as a Vector For Engineering Wisdom by Bryan Cantrill
- Platform as a Reflection of Values by Bryan Cantrill
- Let’s all write good software by Will Wilson
- Intelligence is not Enough by Bryan Cantrill
- Coming Of Age by Bryan Cantrill
- Instrumenting the real-time web: Node.js, DTrace and the Robinson Projection by Bryan Cantrill
- Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor’s guide by Bryan Cantrill
- Surge 2013: Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers by Bryan Cantrill
- Surge 2013: LightningTalks by Bryan Cantrill
- The Container Revolution: Reflections After the First Decade by Bryan Cantrill
- Run containers on bare metal already! by Bryan Cantrill
- LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos by Bryan Cantrill
- Running Aground: Debugging Docker in Production by Bryan Cantrill
- The Hurricane’s Butterfly: Debugging Pathologically Performing Systems by Bryan Cantrill
- Principles of Technology Leadership by Bryan Cantrill
- Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill
- Rust and Other Interesting Things by Bryan Cantrill
- Zebras All the Way Down by Bryan Cantrill
- It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea (with Q&A) by James Mickens
- Advanced Napkin Math: Estimating System Performance from First Principles by Simon Eskildsen
- Making Badass Developers by Kathy Sierra
- Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey
- Wat by Gary Bernhardt
- A Short Summary of the Last Decades of Data Management by Hannes Mühleisen
- Gang of None? Design Patterns in Elixir by José Valim
- The past, present, and future of local-first by Martin Kleppmann
- Stop Writing Classes by Jack Diederich
- Performance Matters by Emery Berger
- Moving 17 years of old legacy code and sites into the Cloud by Scott Hanselman
- Don’t Do Invisible Work by Chris Albon
- Excel at nothing: How to be an effective generalist by Stephen Bailey
- How to Play Well With Others by Josh Wills
- Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure by James Mickens
- Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson
- Redesigning OLTP for a New Order of Magnitude by Joran Dirk Greef
- Nothing is Something by Sandi Metz
Podcasts Episodes🎙️
- RIP USENIX ATC - Oxide and Friends
- Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria - Oxide and Friends
- Bringing up Cosmo - Oxide and Friends
- Hell is other networks - Oxide and Friends
- Raiding the Minibar - Oxide and Friends
- Lip-Bu Tan’s Intel - Oxide and Friends
- A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup - Oxide and Friends
- Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi - Oxide and Friends
- Crates We Love - Oxide and Friends
- OxF 2024 Wrap-Up - Oxide and Friends
- Querying Metrics with OxQL - Oxide and Friends
- RTO or GTFO - Oxide and Friends
- Reflecting on Founder Mode - Oxide and Friends
- RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide - Oxide and Friends
- Whither CockroachDB? - Oxide and Friends
- The Saga of Sagas - Oxide and Friends
- CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris - Oxide and Friends
- Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri - Oxide and Friends
- Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble? - Oxide and Friends
- Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later - Oxide and Friends
- Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund - Oxide and Friends
- Cultural Idiosyncrasies - Oxide and Friends
- Data Visualization - Oxide and Friends
- Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service - Oxide and Friends
- What’s taking so long?! - Oxide and Friends
- Framework Computer with Nirav Patel - Oxide and Friends
- Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz - Oxide and Friends
- Launching the Cloud Computer - Oxide and Friends
- Settling Beef - Oxide and Friends
- Mr. Nagle’s Wild Ride - Oxide and Friends
- Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack - Oxide and Friends
- Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered! - Oxide and Friends
- Breaking it down with Ian Brown - Oxide and Friends
- Holistic Boot - Oxide and Friends
- Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making - Oxide and Friends
- Surviving Conventional Wisdom - Oxide and Friends
- Across the Chasm with Rust - Oxide and Friends
- Books in the box redux - Oxide and Friends
- Paths into Systems Programming - Oxide and Friends
- Surviving the Dot-Com Bust - Oxide and Friends
- Fail Whaling - Oxide and Friends
- More Tales from the Bringup Lab
- Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving - Oxide and Friends
- Engineering Culture - Oxide and Friends
- I know this! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts) - Oxide and Friends
- Tales from the Bringup Lab - Oxide and Friends
- Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI’s Pocket - Oxide and Friends
- Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm - Oxide and Friends
- Amir Michael - On The Metal
- How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine with Simon Eskildsen
- How to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine - Ep. 34 with Simon Eskildsen
- DHH Is Right About Everything
- DHH Talks Apple, Linux and Running Servers
- I Interviewed Chris Lattner, The Creator Of LLVM, Clang, Swift, and Mojo
- Swift creator Chris Lattner on Mojo & Roc
- Managers should know how to code feat. Thorsten Ball
- Do you love programming as much as Thorsten Ball does?
- Thorsten Ball, Software Engineer at Zed
- Stories behind building HashiCorp | Mitchell Hashimoto
- Mitchell Hashimoto - Founder of HashiCorp, Terraform, and Thoughts of Open Source Monetization
- The hard power of management and the soft power of senior ICs | Josh Wills
- Databases, Ambitions, and a Testing Silver Bullet? (With Joran Dirk Greef)
- Creator of Ghostty talks Zig over Go
Books 📚
Blog Posts📝
- The Best Programmers I Know
- The hunt for the Holy Grail by Benn Stancil
- Obsession by Phil Eaton
- Be someone who does things by Phil Eaton
- Polishing Forks by Thorsten Ball
- The Grug Brained Developer
- It’s hard to write code for computers, but it’s even harder to write code for humans by Erik Bernhardsson
- I don’t want to learn your garbage query language by Erik Bernhardsson
- Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence by DHH
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig
- Being a High-Leverage Generalist
- Professional Programming: The First 10 Years by Thorsten Ball
- How can you not be romantic about programming? by Thorsten Ball
Academic Papers 📄
Conferences 👥
Tweets 🐦
Following
Newsletters & Blogs 📰
- Adam Leventhal’s Personal Blog
- Bryan Cantrill’s Personal Blog
- Charity Majors’ Personal Blog
- Register Spill by Thorsten Ball
- benn.substack by Benn Stancil
- Simon Willison’s Weblog
- Phil Eaton’s Personal Blog
- Erik Bernhardsson’s Personal Blog
- Vicki Boykis’ Personal Blog
- Mitchell Hashimoto’s Personal Blog
- Gunnar Morling’s Personal Blog
- Jack Vanlightly’s Personal Blog
- Hynek Schlawack’s Personal Blog
- Anton Zhiyanov’s Personal Blog
Podcasts 🎙️
YouTube Channels 📺
Discord 👾
Tech I Find Interesting
These are examples of the kinds of technologies I find interesting. The specific tools listed are less important, but illustrate the categories.
Databases 🗄️
- OLTP
- OLAP
- Key Value
- Time Series
- Search & Vector Stores
- Incremental View Maintenance / Sync Engines
Proxies/API Gateways/Networking 🌐
️Durable Execution/Task Queues/Workflows ⚙️