Interesting Technical Readings

The rise of AI has made me appreciate the importance of deep expertise even more. Here’s what I’m reading to learn.

In no particular order:


Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore · unix.foo

By Cyrus

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Date Added: May 26, 2026


Migrating from Go to Rust

By Corrode Rust Consulting

Published: 2026-05-21

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Date Added: May 25, 2026


C Constructs That Still Don’t Work in C++ — and a Few That Changed | Josh Lospinoso

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Published: 2026-05-20T13:30:00.000Z

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Date Added: May 24, 2026


What is Git made of?

By Serge Zaitsev

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Date Added: May 24, 2026


This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

By Bruno Croci

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Date Added: May 21, 2026


Nix parallelism & Import From Derivation

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Published: 2020-10-20T22:24:00-07:00

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Date Added: May 21, 2026


An early look at Nix Dynamic Derivations

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Published: 2025-03-10T16:34:00-07:00

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Date Added: May 21, 2026


Content addressed derivations - Haskell.nix

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Date Added: May 21, 2026


1000 instances of nixpkgs

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Date Added: May 21, 2026


Why you don't need flake-utils

By Fernando Ayats

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Date Added: May 21, 2026


1000 Instances of flake-utils

By Marijan Petričević

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Date Added: May 21, 2026


what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered

By ian erik varatalu

Published: 2026-05-10T00:00:00.000Z

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Date Added: May 15, 2026


the 90 day disclosure policy is dead

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Published: 00:00:00 +0000 UTC

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Date Added: May 15, 2026


Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet

By Stevie Bonifield

Published: 2026-05-14T18:58:00+00:00

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Date Added: May 15, 2026


Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go | Jesse Li

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Published: 2020-01-04

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Date Added: May 13, 2026


Moving files between Git repos while preserving history | plumtrie

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Date Added: May 13, 2026


Events Can Make Sense

By Maxwell Krohn, Eddie Kohler, and M. Frans Kaashoek

Published: 2007

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Date Added: May 13, 2026


Beyond the Progress Bar: How I Visualized BitTorrent’s Hidden Dance in Real-Time

By Abhijit Kad

Published: 2026-04-13T10:30:32.141Z

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Date Added: May 13, 2026


Learning Software Architecture

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Date Added: May 13, 2026


How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux) – Gustavo A. R. Silva

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Published: 2024-06-18

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Date Added: May 1, 2026


It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.

By Marc Brooker

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Date Added: May 1, 2026


Compiler Explorer

By Matt Godbolt

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Date Added: April 25, 2026


My audio interface has ssh enabled by default

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Date Added: April 25, 2026


Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01

By Seiya Nuta

Published: 2023-08-12

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Date Added: April 25, 2026


Anatomy of a Binary Executable | Matt Oswalt

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Date Added: April 23, 2026


no strcpy either

By Daniel Stenberg

Published: 2025-12-29T22:36:44+01:00

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Date Added: April 19, 2026


With Undefined Behavior, Anything is Possible

By Raph Levien’s blog

Published: 2018-08-17T18:51:03+00:00

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Date Added: April 19, 2026


Free the Last Thing Style

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Published: 2022-04-28T10:21:10+00:00

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Date Added: April 18, 2026


How SKBs work

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Date Added: April 18, 2026


CRDTs: Theory and Practice

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Date Added: April 18, 2026


Django vs Flask | devel.tech

By tony

Published: Thu Jun 15 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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Date Added: April 18, 2026


Python’s super() considered super!

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Published: 2011-05-26T16:15:42+00:00

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Date Added: April 18, 2026


Too much Discussion of the XOR swap trick

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Published: 2026-03-16

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Date Added: April 16, 2026


Clockwise/Spiral Rule

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Date Added: April 16, 2026


Let's Build a Compiler

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Date Added: April 16, 2026


EDUCATIONAL PEARL: A Nanopass framework for compiler education

By Dipanwita Sarkar, Oscar Waddell, and R. Kent Dybvig

Published: September 1, 2005

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Date Added: April 16, 2026


This World of Ours

By James Mickens

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Date Added: April 16, 2026


Distributed Compression in the Era of Machine Learning: A Review of Recent Advances

By Ezgi Ozyilkan, and Elza Erkip

Published: 2024-02-12

Tags: #Computer Science - Information Theory #Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing

Date Added: April 14, 2026


Creating a vDSO: the Colonel's Other Chicken | Linux Journal

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Date Added: April 11, 2026


__structuredAttrs in Nix

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Published: 2020-01-20T14:00:00+02:00

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Date Added: April 11, 2026


East End Functions : Level of Indirection

By Phil Nash

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


a = b = c, a strange consequence of operator associativity – Belay the C++

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Published: 2022-04-28

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[History of C++] Explanation on why the keyword `class` has no more reason to exist – Belay the C++

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Published: 2021-09-17

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


About &= and |= – Belay the C++

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Published: 2021-04-27

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


C++ needs undefined behavior, but maybe less

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


Threaded code explained in C -- dramforever

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


C++ Concepts for better metaprogramming • The practice – Alberto Gramaglia

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


Templates, Exceptions, Lambdas, Smart Pointers

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Published: 2020-05-30T12:11:35+00:00

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


Classes, Friends and Polymorphism

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Published: 2020-05-30T12:02:40+00:00

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


What is Type Erasure?

By Arthur O’Dwyer

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Date Added: April 10, 2026


Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++

By Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)

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Date Added: April 10, 2026