Papers & Books

Blogs and hot takes are fun but the good stuff hides in primary sources. I like to read computer science papers and books cover to cover and write about what holds up in production and what doesn't.

You get the insights without wading through 40 pages of LaTeX. And when a famous book doesn't survive contact with real code, I'll tell you that too.

Papers and books

March 2021

Different medium, different mindset

Ever wondered what it's like to make a physical book? It ain't as easy as shipping code lemme tell ya ๐Ÿ˜…

March 2020

My favorite lessons from Pragmatic Programmer

October 2018

It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work โ€“ a review

April 2018

What I learned from Sherry Walling's Keeping Your Sh*t Together

March 2018

What I learned from Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

July 2017

What I learned from So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

May 2017

What I learned from Cal Newport's Deep Work

February 2016

What I learned from Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking

September 2015

What I learned from Kathy Sierra's Badass

August 2015

What I learned from Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

July 2014

With 90k I could become a full-time author

April 2014

Week 20: Making ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc

Week 19: Relativity theory and time perception

March 2014

After five months, my effective hourly rate with a publisher is 3eur/hour

Week 18: the role of diet in periodontal disease

Week 17: What happens when you only eat meat for a year?

February 2014

Week 16: On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

Week 15: A tutorial on the expressiveness and universality of fold

January 2014

Week 14, heuristic evaluation of user interfaces

Week 13, constructing logic circuits in mammalian cells

Week 12: practical cold boot attacks that will make cryptonerds shit their pants

Week 11, Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

December 2013

Week 10, The myriad virtues of Wavelet Trees

Week 9: Life at low Reynold's number

Week 8: What a girl who plays rugby can teach organizational leaders

Week 7: Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

November 2013

Week 6, A query on confirmation

Week 5: Random Structures from LEGO Bricks and Analog Monte Carlo Procedures

Week 4: Tiny insects evolve anuclear neurons

Week 3: Of lion manes and human beards