Resources
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
Tiny full text search library for the browser. Powers the search on this site. Free, fast, no backend needed.
Pyodide
Real Python running in the browser via WebAssembly. Makes interactive tutorials genuinely possible.
Cassidy Williams
Practical web development, career advice, and a newsletter that has stayed great for years.
Simon Willison
The clearest writer in the AI engineering space. Daily notes, practical experiments, no hype. Read his blog if you read nothing else.
Julia Evans
Explains hard systems topics with cartoons and clarity. Her zines on debugging, Linux, and Git are masterclasses in technical writing.
Building effective agents
by Anthropic
The single best practical guide to building agentic AI systems in 2025. Read this before any agent framework.
A history of CPS
by Various
Continuation passing style and its applications. Background reading for anyone designing agent control flow.
Buttondown
Newsletter platform run by one person. Clean, simple, fairly priced. What I would use for serious newsletter publishing.
Cloudflare Workers
Serverless compute that actually delivers. Free tier is generous, deployment is instant, learning curve is short.
Cursor
AI first code editor. If you write code daily and have not tried this, you are leaving productivity on the table.
AI Engineer Newsletter
Latent Space podcast and newsletter. Practical conversations with people actually shipping AI in production.
BibleProject
Animated explainers and podcasts that have shaped how I read scripture. Long form, slow, faithful.
TLDR Newsletter
Daily tech news in short bullets. The fastest way to keep up without doom scrolling.
A Philosophy of Software Design
by John Ousterhout
Short, dense, opinionated. Changed how I think about complexity in code.
Designing Data Intensive Applications
by Martin Kleppmann
The reference text for distributed systems. Worth reading slowly across many months. I return to it constantly.
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