My recent reads, in reverse chronological order. Recommended reads are in bold.
Books
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI ↗ by Ethan Mollick
- Operating Systems ↗ by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
- Operating System Concepts ↗ by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne
Programming
- The Brute Squad ↗
- Faster Hash Tables and the Story Behind Their Breakthrough ↗
- Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building ↗
- Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages ↗
- At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work ↗
- Automatic Memory Management and Garbage Collection in Programming Languages ↗
AI
- Cognitive Offloading: How AI is Quietly Eroding Our Critical Thinking ↗
- Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore ↗
- AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? ↗
- Georgia Tech to Build $20M National AI Supercomputer ↗
- Chinese researchers unveil MemOS, the first ‘memory operating system’ that gives AI human-like recall ↗
- Can AI Fix Buggy Code? Exploring the Use of Large Language Models in Automated Program Repair ↗
- What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I. ↗
- AI is not good software. It is pretty good people. ↗
- How AI Agents Are Transforming Software Engineering & the Future of Product Development ↗
- Your Next Favorite App? The One You Make Yourself ↗
- The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding ↗
- The End of Programming as We Know It ↗
- AI and Programming: The Beginning of a New Era ↗
- Vibe Coding, Vibe Checking, and Vibe Blogging ↗
Tech
- The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? ↗
- Toward Sustainable Computer Systems ↗
- New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation ↗
- Go Language at 13 Years: Ecosystem, Evolution, and Future with Steve Francia ↗
- New Claude 4 AI model refactored code for 7 hours straight ↗
- Shrinking time to mitigate production incidents—CRE life lessons ↗
Mathematics
- Mathematical Gambles: The Remarkable Lore of the Prime Numbers ↗
- Ulam spiral ↗
- Pi and the primes: a pattern related to the Ulam spiral ↗
- About a variant of Ulam spiral ↗