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Consumption: November 2025

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

Reading:

  • How I build software quickly
  • How Complex Systems Fail
  • Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages
  • The kind of company I want to be a part of...
  • Plumbing vs Internet, Revisited
  • Collaboration sucks
  • My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
  • You misunderstand what it means to be poor
  • Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust
  • The Grug Brained Developer
  • Rustlings Exercises
  • What to blog about
  • Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
  • "Good engineering management" is a fad
  • Be Like Clippy
  • We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies
  • Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
  • How good engineers write bad code at big companies
  • Is it cynical to do what your manager wants?
  • All it takes is for one to work out

Movies/TV Shows:

  • Passion of the Christ (2004)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  • Anyone But You (2023)
  • The Call of the Wild (2020)
  • Severance - Season 2 (2025)