
A list of some things I consumed in the month of October 2025.

Reading:

* [Our efforts, in part, define us](https://weakty.com/posts/efforts/)
* [Rearchitecting Airbnb’s Frontend](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/rearchitecting-airbnbs-frontend-5e213efc24d2)
* [Real Programmers](https://xkcd.com/378/)
* [[PSA] Advice I Wish I Knew as a Junior Developer](https://raheeljunaid.com/blog/advice-for-developers/)
* [Mister Macintosh](https://folklore.org/Mister_Macintosh.html)
* [Svelte really is that fast](https://chuniversiteit.nl/papers/svelte-is-fast)
* [Why Self-host?](https://romanzipp.com/blog/why-a-homelab-why-self-host)
* [Why is everything so scalable?](https://www.stavros.io/posts/why-is-everything-so-scalable/)
* [Why we're leaving serverless](https://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit)
* [Migrating to Hetzner](https://digitalsociety.coop/posts/migrating-to-hetzner-cloud/)
* [The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/)
* [Things You Should Never Do, Part I](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/)
* [The Iceberg Secret, Revealed](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/02/13/the-iceberg-secret-revealed/)
* [The Law of Leaky Abstractions](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/)
* [Bar is sooooooooo high](https://nekrolm.github.io/post.html?post=posts%2Fleaving-aws.md)
* [Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout](https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/)
* [Amazon's Silent Sacking](https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sacking/)
* [How Idealist.org Replaced a $3,000/mo Heroku Bill with a $55/mo Server](https://disco.cloud/blog/how-idealistorg-replaced-a-3000mo-heroku-bill-with-a-55mo-server/)
* [Scripts I wrote that I use all the time](https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/)
* [Look, another AI browser](https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/look-another-ai-browser)
* [The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebIsKindOfFragile)
* [Disable AI In Firefox](https://flamedfury.com/posts/disable-ai-in-firefox/)
* [Maybe the 9–5 Isn’t So Bad After All](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/maybe-the-95-isnt-so-bad-after-all)
* [Fired](https://zachholman.com/posts/fired/)
* [Boring Is What We Wanted](https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/)
* [Sabbaticals keep our attrition at bay](https://world.hey.com/dhh/sabbaticals-keep-our-attrition-at-bay-9ccba5c0)
* [Taking Money off the Table](https://zachholman.com/posts/money-off-the-table)

Movies/TV Shows:

* [Chad Powers (2025)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31449991/)


Consumption: October 2025