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Databases

sq sq.io
jq, but for databases. Query and pipe data from postgres, sqlite, csv, and more.
The best Postgres feature you're not using craigkerstiens.com
CTEs as a tool for thinking through queries top-down, not just performance.
How Postgres stores data on disk drew.silcock.dev
explain.dalibo.com explain.dalibo.com
Paste an EXPLAIN plan, get an interactive visualization.
The Internals of PostgreSQL interdb.jp
What I wish someone told me about Postgres challahscript.com
Good CTE, bad CTE boringsql.com

The Architecture of Open Source Applications aosabook.org
The authors of real open source systems explain how they're built.
A brief history of block storage at AWS allthingsdistributed.com
Maestro: Netflix's workflow orchestrator netflixtechblog.com
How the hourglass won systemsapproach.org
Why the internet's architecture converged on a narrow waist.
The strangler fig pattern martinfowler.com
Database sharding explained architecturenotes.co

Keep a work journal fev.al
How to write blog posts developers read refactoringenglish.com
Blog writing for developers rmoff.net
Why writing small docs is a game changer bufferbuffer.com
Be a property owner, not a renter, on the internet den.dev
The case for owning your platform instead of publishing into someone's feed.
Manuel Moreale manuelmoreale.com
Home of the People & Blogs interview series.

How I use Obsidian jasonheppler.org
Save everything in Markdown p.migdal.pl
Second brain ssp.sh
A public digital garden — good reference for what these pages could become.
Effective spaced repetition borretti.me
A personal data pipeline joshcanhelp.com

Bash one-liners github.com
Starship starship.rs
Minimal, fast, customizable shell prompt.
hyperfine github.com
Command-line benchmarking with warmup runs and statistical output.
Glow github.com
Render markdown in the terminal.
dive github.com
Explore docker image layers and find wasted space.
Magic Wormhole magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io
Dead-simple secure file transfer between machines.

Claude Code best practices anthropic.com
How Cursor works blog.sshh.io
Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs geoffreylitt.com
Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI addyo.substack.com
Neural networks: zero to hero karpathy.ai
Karpathy's from-scratch course, backprop through GPT.
Personal software with Claude blog.nelhage.com
Using Claude to build one-off Obsidian tooling.

Do quests, not goals raptitude.com
School is not enough map.simonsarris.com
The lost art of research as leisure kasurian.com
The 11 laws of showrunning okbjgm.weebly.com
Ostensibly about TV, actually about leading any creative team.
Julia Child's kitchens placesjournal.org
Programming as theory building pages.cs.wisc.edu
Naur's classic: the program is the theory in the programmers' heads, not the code.
The long, hard, stupid way herbertlui.net