Reading wishlist

Chances are I didn't get around to all of these, but it's a nice record of what seemed important at the time!

2025 reading list

Vibe coding

• Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude
• Exploring Generative AI

2024 reading list

Misc

• Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++
• SPIFFE Concepts
• How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy
• Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers

Observability

• Intro to distributed tracing with Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana Cloud

Rust

• Rust Design Patterns
• Why async Rust?
• A four year plan for async Rust

2023 reading list

Misc

• Using strace and lsof to track down process hangs
• Mozilla's AI guide
• Cicada 3301
• Raft: In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm
• Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
• Autoenshittification

Linux

• sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a UNIX socket
• Continuous Memory Profiling for Rust
• The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1
• Frame pointers: 1, 2
• Debian packaging guide
• DNS in RAM
• Exploratory data analysis with awk

Observability

• Tracing methods

Rust

• Elegant Library APIs in Rust
• Idiomatic Rust (for C++ Devs): Constructors & Conversions