Things on the internet I really enjoyed reading
These don't follow any particular category, it's just really good articles by awesome people on the internet. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Database Recovery Demystified: Understanding ARIES from First Principles
Yash Agarwal • yashagw.github.io
Unlocking High-Performance PostgreSQL: Key Memory Optimizations
Stormatics • Stormatics
Chronemics and the Nonverbal Language of Time
Anne Delaney • JSTOR Daily • 7 mins read
Do LLMs know when they've gotten a correct answer?
Aman Sharma • Lossfunk • 4 mins read
You don't need Kafka: Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals
Leandro Proença • leandronsp.com • 15 mins read
Emergent misalignment with LLMs
Owain Evans • x.com
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
Anthropic Team • anthropic.com
What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
Hazel Bachrach • challahscript.com • 15 mins read
DO HARD THINGS
Casey Neistat • youtube.com • 12:35 watch time
Easy to Overlook PostgreSQL Performance Issues in Rails Apps
Paweł Urbanek • pawelurbanek.com • 7 mins read
"Marketing is what you do when you have a shitty product."
Christopher Lochhead • lochhead.medium.com • 2 mins read
The Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test
fs.blog • 3 mins read
Experts vs, Imitators
fs.blog • 2 mins read
How VCs killed the meaning of work
Praveen Gopal Krishnan • The Ken • 9 mins read
Debounce vs Throttle: Definitive Visual Guide
Artem Zakharchenko • kettanaito.com • 6 mins read
Don't Get Eaten
svs • The Engineering Org • 9 mins read
Relentlessly Resourceful
Paul Graham • paulgraham.com • 3 mins read
An interactive guide to Fourier series
Srijan (injuly.in) • injuly.in • 11 mins read
Un-alytics
Hricha Shandily • hricha.me • 12 mins read
How to win at CORS
Jake Archibald • jakearchibald.com • 16 mins read
The secret formula for Apple's rounded corners
Arun Venkatesan • arun.is • 3 mins read
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Leonardo Creed • Engineer Codex • 4 mins read
How we think about customer experience at Linear
Erin Frey • linear.app • 5 mins read
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
RS Benedict • bloodknife.com • 11 mins read
Reaching Product Market Fit - Our journey
Ferruccio Balestreri • june.so • 5 mins read
How to Do Great Work
Paul Graham • Paul Graham • 47 mins read
Reduce Friction - Ceejbot's notes
alazyreader • blog.ceejbot.com • 17 mins read
The Fly Blog: The JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird
todsacerdoti • fly.io • 4 mins read
The responsibility is the reward
David Heinemeier Hansson • Hey.com • 1 mins read
Product Development Cycle Fundamentals
Michael Seibel • Y Combinator • 5 mins read
Scaling with common sense
Kailash Nadh • zerodha.tech • 16 mins read
Logging at Zerodha
Karan Sharma • zerodha.tech • 16 mins read
Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think
Cedric Chin • commoncog.com • 19 mins read
How Duolingo reignited user growth
Lenny Rachitsky • Lenny's Newsletter • 18 mins read
What to expect from your framework
Johan Halse • johan.hal.se • 8 mins read
The maze is in the mouse
Praveen Seshadri • Medium • 14 mins read
The Elves Leave Middle Earth - Sodas Are No Longer Free
Chris Yeh • steveblank.com • 2 mins read
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
tontonius • anthonyhobday.com • 6 mins read
Bengaluru’s solutions are Bengaluru’s problems
Arundhati Ramanathan • The Ken • 13 mins read
The Market for Lemons
Alex Russell • infrequently.org • 10 mins read
Scalability is overrated
Waseem Daher • Startup Real Talk • 2 mins read
Building a Startup from Scratch: My Mistakes as CTO
Egor Romanov • egor-romanov.medium.com • 12 mins read
Making sense of TypeScript using set theory
Vladimir Klepov • blog.thoughtspile.tech • 11 mins read
Color Formats in CSS
Josh W. Comeau • Josh Comeau • 11 mins read
For Want of a JOIN
Brian Kihoon Lee • moderndescartes.com • 3 mins read
Post mortem of our 1st YC startup: a Reverse ETL
Anh-Tho Chuong • GetLago on Github
You Have Too Many Metrics
Sean rnes • Sean Byrnes from The Breaking Point • 4 mins read
beautiful software
beautiful.software • 7 mins read
Where Did Software Go Wrong?
Jesse Li • blog.jse.li • 14 mins read
Taming Names in Software Development
Joseph Glass • simplethread.com • 9 mins read
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit
Rahul Vohra • review.firstround.com • 18 mins read
A Practical Guide to CSS Media Queries
Alex Ivanovs • stackdiary.com • 8 mins read
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - one library at a time
Marvin Hagemeister • marvinh.dev • 8 mins read
I/O is no longer the bottleneck
Ben Hoyt • benhoyt.com • 2 mins read