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Reading

A collection of links to content I have enjoyed reading, and you might too.

2025

  • A new breed of analyzers – cURL and libcurl
  • Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
  • Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
  • The Best Programmers I Know
  • Just fucking code.

2024

  • Chat Control: The EU’s CSEM scanner proposal
  • Not all TLDs are Created Equal
  • I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
  • 12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9
  • Amber The Programming Language
  • Stripe’s monorepo developer environment
  • https://grantslatton.com/software-pathfinding
  • Micro-libraries need to die already
  • The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
  • Greppability is an underrated code metric

2023

  • new codebase, who dis? (How to Join a Team and Learn a Codebase)
  • My first impressions of web3
  • Tech debt gets worse before it gets better
  • ko: Easy Go Containers
  • # Copilot for Docs
  • 404 Page not found
  • 10 hard-to-swallow truths they won’t tell you about software engineer job
  • zoonk/zoonk
  • Code is run more than read
  • Development slowness in big and legacy applications [and how to hurry it up]
  • Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash
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  • Mastodon
  • Bluesky
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Weekly top 5

2025 Year Review2025 Year Review
Editing Grokipedia, a first lookEditing Grokipedia, a first look
Installing Android Studio on WSL2 for FlutterInstalling Android Studio on WSL2 for Flutter
WSL2 COM port pass-through with usbipd (firewall issues)WSL2 COM port pass-through with usbipd (firewall issues)
If you have a sandwich and cut it in half, do you have one or two sandwichesIf you have a sandwich and cut it in half, do you have one or two sandwiches

Yearly top 10

WSL2 COM port pass-through with usbipd (firewall issues)
Installing Android Studio on WSL2 for Flutter
Altering a Gerrit change (git workflow)
Add Exif data back to Facebook images – 0.10
Your own Wikidata Query Service, with no limits
If you have a sandwich and cut it in half, do you have one or two sandwiches
The day Google (almost) lost my timeline data...
Dependency injection in go using fx, and replacing services for test
Reading from USB COM port in go
Smart home: Starting with OPNSense Router, Eero Wi-Fi and a pile of cables

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