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People, tools, articles, books, and newsletters worth your time. Things I have actually read or used, with notes on why they are worth recommending.

MiniSearch

Tools

Tiny full text search library for the browser. Powers the search on this site. Free, fast, no backend needed.

Pyodide

Tools

Real Python running in the browser via WebAssembly. Makes interactive tutorials genuinely possible.

Cassidy Williams

People

Practical web development, career advice, and a newsletter that has stayed great for years.

Simon Willison

People

The clearest writer in the AI engineering space. Daily notes, practical experiments, no hype. Read his blog if you read nothing else.

Julia Evans

People

Explains hard systems topics with cartoons and clarity. Her zines on debugging, Linux, and Git are masterclasses in technical writing.

Building effective agents

AI Engineering

by Anthropic

The single best practical guide to building agentic AI systems in 2025. Read this before any agent framework.

A history of CPS

AI Engineering

by Various

Continuation passing style and its applications. Background reading for anyone designing agent control flow.

Buttondown

Tools

Newsletter platform run by one person. Clean, simple, fairly priced. What I would use for serious newsletter publishing.

Cloudflare Workers

Tools

Serverless compute that actually delivers. Free tier is generous, deployment is instant, learning curve is short.

Cursor

Tools

AI first code editor. If you write code daily and have not tried this, you are leaving productivity on the table.

AI Engineer Newsletter

Newsletters

Latent Space podcast and newsletter. Practical conversations with people actually shipping AI in production.

BibleProject

Faith

Animated explainers and podcasts that have shaped how I read scripture. Long form, slow, faithful.

TLDR Newsletter

Newsletters

Daily tech news in short bullets. The fastest way to keep up without doom scrolling.

A Philosophy of Software Design

Books

by John Ousterhout

Short, dense, opinionated. Changed how I think about complexity in code.

Designing Data Intensive Applications

Books

by Martin Kleppmann

The reference text for distributed systems. Worth reading slowly across many months. I return to it constantly.

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