Nick Major
  • Writing⇠
  • Snippets
  • Reading

Consumption: September 2025

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

Reading:

  • Why is this hard?
  • Codin' Dirty
  • Complexity Budget
  • Why Walking Helps Us Think
  • Poisoning Well
  • Reset Reasoning
  • CSS Tools: Reset CSS
  • Securing APIs: Express rate limit and slow down
  • We all dodged a bullet
  • The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything”
  • Conventional Comments
  • Vibe Coding Is Creating Braindead Coders
  • A better future for JavaScript that won't happen
  • Good Linux Hardware
  • How Cloudflare optimizes web content for faster page loads
  • Vibe Coding is a Dangerous Fantasy
  • Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
  • Browser uploads to Cloudflare R2 with AWS SDK
  • The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review
  • We've all had enough of this nonsense
  • The Beauty of Programming
  • Thoughts on Cloudflare
  • Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
  • Don't write bugs
  • Look Out For Bugs
  • Hiring only senior engineers is the worst policy in the startup industry
  • Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code

Movies/TV Shows:

  • The Bourne Identify (2002)
  • The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
  • The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
  • The Bourne Legacy (2012)
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
  • Black Rabbit (2025)