Learning

This page helps me keep track of all the things I’m learning right now. There’s also the Inbox, which is a dump of everything I want to get around to learning at some point - books, papers, etc.

Now / In Progress

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
Crafting Interpreters (Hands-On)

Notes

I’ve found that writing up summaries of technical content I consume helps me engage with the content better.

View a single listing of all the notes I’ve taken since I started doing this, or filter for papers, textbooks, or hands-on courses/exercises. Here are a few recent entries:

Java’s new Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) is very exciting
Microsoft Gandalf
Don’t use Protobuf for Telemetry
Concurrency in Go (Book)
APT Encounters of the Third Kind
Cannes: How ML saves us $1.7M a year on document previews

Wiki

This is a wiki (or knowledge base, or digital garden) containing TILs and other (typically tiny) things I’ve learned about. Here’s the full listing, with a few recent entries below:

NLP
io_uring
find / xargs
tar
GNU Parallel
async / await

On Hold

These are learning resources that I stopped working through for some reason, but I intend to pick them back up at some point.

Practical Deep Learning for Coders (Hands-On)
Implementing Raft (Hands-On)
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (Paper)