Lists
Published
July 11, 2025
The lists are in no particular order
My Content
️Videos 📺
Favorites
Talks 🗣️
- Let’s all write good software - 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
- 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
- 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🎙️
- Paths into Systems Programming
- Surviving the Dot-Com Bust - Oxide and Friends
- Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving - Oxide and Friends
- Fail Whaling - Oxide and Friends
- Engineering Culture - Oxide and Friends
- I know this! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts) - 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 📰
- 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 🎙️
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