Other programming-related blogs

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• Miguel Young's blog: Good, engaging writing. I always learn something new. I'd love more content like this where the author gently introduces you to lower-level details of tools we use. Some of my favorites include a dive into how go's iterators work and an introduction to reading assembly.

• Alex Kladov's blog. A lot of immediately applicable advice. Loves to philosophize but thanksfully keeps it to a minimum. Some of the posts I keep coming back to his post about test maintenance.

Talks

• Literally anything by bryan cantrill. The combination of enthusiasm for the craft and deep knowledge backed with years of dealing with the lowest of systems is hard to find. I think a lot of my learning was being exposed to people talking about things I didn't even understand or grasp fully at the time. After doing this consistently, you start to pick up on stuff. Bryan's talks were a big part of me slowly getting interested in lower-level things.

• What the heck is the event loop anyway. At the start of my career, the word "event loop" felt mystical. I didn't even know where to start trying to understand it. I just knew it existed in NodeJs, and this magical thing is what prevented my programs from exiting if "something" was still "running". This talk dispelled the fog.

Books

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