Reading

This will be a list of some stuff I’ve found interesting. I’m not sure whether this will be for my future self or for some other people. I’m not even sure if I’ll ever update this page after this first link. Anyhow this seems like a nice idea.

What Color is Your Function?
Swift: Google’s bet on differentiable programming
BSD vs Linux
Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while
Web Components will replace your frontend framework
How security flaws work: The buffer overflow
Crafting Interpreters: A handbook for making programming languages
A (relatively easy to understand) primer on elliptic curve cryptography
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (there’s also a summary by me over here)
Lessons learned scaling PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month
How We Built r/Place
Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution For the Web — WebKit blog
Rope Science — Xi-Editor
Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case
Elon Musk: “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed.” Experts: Maybe not
SQL Keys in Depth
Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
What We Learned from the Recent Mandrill Outage
Rewriting the heart of our sync engine
The PlayStation’s inner sanctum
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%