Consumption: January 2026

A list of some things I consumed in the month of January 2026.

Reading:

• Interviewing: How I got offers from OpenAI, Midjourney, Cursor, ElevenLabs, Vercel, etc.
• 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
• Next.js vs TanStack
• The best career advice I can give to SWEs looking at a bleak job market right now
• The Suck Is Why We’re Here
• When AI Does Our Writing, Who Will Do Our Thinking?
• Try to Take My Position: The Best Promotion Advice I Ever Got
• There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout
• I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
• How I browse the web in 2026
• Google Broke My Heart
• Are we tired of social media once and for all?
• Fix a top cause of slow queries in PostgreSQL (no slow query log needed)
• PostgreSQL Performance: Latency in the Cloud and On Premise
• 24 Hours: The short life of parenthood
• Living in Europe is Paradise
• forget about the money
• The Emperor Has No Clothes: How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
• This is not the future
• Why Young People Are So Angry—and Why They’re Right
• Q1 2026: Ten Bets Against the Crowd
• Be Retarded To Win At Life
• Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
• The future of software engineering is SRE
• Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be written in a system language
• Doing the thing is doing the thing.
• Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
• Tauri 2.0 Documentation

Movies/TV Shows:

• Free Willy (1993)
• The Gorge (2025)
• Flipper (1996)
• Your Friends & Neighbors (2025)
• UFC 324
• Lessons in Chemistry (2023)