Reading journal

Oft-neglected list of reads on the topic of coding & craft.

2025
Using Tracing (OpenTelemetry) to Solve Real Backend Mysteries Oct 2025
The JS execution model + event loop Oct 2025
How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development Oct 2025
Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code Oct 2025
What's a senior engineer's job? Oct 2025
Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration. Sep 2025
Just Say No to More End-to-End Tests Sep 2025
Programming Deflation Sep 2025
Forest & Desert Sep 2025
RBAC like it was meant to be Sep 2025
Why I Don't Want Your SDK in Production — brandur.org Sep 2025
Software engineering practices Sep 2025
On Coding, Ego and Attention Sep 2025
A deep dive into Cloudflare’s September 12, 2025 dashboard and API outage Aug 2025
Linearly Scale font-size with CSS clamp() Based on the Viewport | CSS-Tricks Jul 2025
Popover element entry and exit animations in a few lines of CSS | pawelgrzybek.com Jul 2025
How to Build an Agent Mar 2025
2023
What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs — brandur.org Oct 2023
2022
Little’s Law Applied in Agile & Knowledge Work — Part 1 Oct 2022
The Testing Trophy and Testing Classifications Jun 2022