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

Reading:

* [Why is this hard?](https://programmersstone.blog/posts/why-is-this-hard/)
* [Codin' Dirty](https://htmx.org/essays/codin-dirty/)
* [Complexity Budget](https://htmx.org/essays/complexity-budget/)
* [Why Walking Helps Us Think](https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/walking-helps-us-think)
* [Poisoning Well](https://heydonworks.com/article/poisoning-well/)
* [Reset Reasoning](https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/18/reset-reasoning/)
* [CSS Tools: Reset CSS](https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/)
* [Securing APIs: Express rate limit and slow down](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/securing-apis-express-rate-limit-and-slow-down/)
* [We all dodged a bullet](https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/)
* [The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything”](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/the-scam-called-you-dont-have-to-remember-anything/)
* [Conventional Comments](https://conventionalcomments.org)
* [Vibe Coding Is Creating Braindead Coders](https://nmn.gl/blog/vibe-coding-gambling)
* [A better future for JavaScript that won't happen](https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2025-09-17-An-impossible-future-for-JS.html)
* [Good Linux Hardware](https://learn.omacom.io/3/omacom/74/good-linux-hardware)
* [How Cloudflare optimizes web content for faster page loads](https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/slt3lc6tev37/4CNFnqPuNxswEDKKXGkbjc/ecdbc87cfa85f07ea5da9f20a284c710/How-Cloudflare_optimizes_web_content_for_faster_page_loads.pdf)
* [Vibe Coding is a Dangerous Fantasy](https://nmn.gl/blog/vibe-coding-fantasy)
* [Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-with-cloudflare-workers/)
* [Browser uploads to Cloudflare R2 with AWS SDK](https://transloadit.com/devtips/browser-uploads-to-cloudflare-r2-with-aws-sdk/)
* [The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review](https://meks.quest/blogs/the-theatre-of-pull-requests-and-code-review)
* [We've all had enough of this nonsense](https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-ve-all-had-enough-of-this-nonsense-8545dd26)
* [The Beauty of Programming](https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/academic-information/departments-programs/computer-science/beauty-programming)
* [Thoughts on Cloudflare](https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/thoughts-on-cloudflare/)
* [Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/attention)
* [Don't write bugs](https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/dont-write-bugs.html)
* [Look Out For Bugs](https://matklad.github.io/2025/09/04/look-for-bugs.html)
* [Hiring only senior engineers is the worst policy in the startup industry](https://workweave.dev/blog/hiring-only-senior-engineers-is-killing-companies)
* [Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code](https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/comprehension-debt-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-llm-generated-code/)

Movies/TV Shows:

* [The Bourne Identify (2002)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258463/)
* [The Bourne Supremacy (2004)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/)
* [The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/)
* [The Bourne Legacy (2012)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/)
* [The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359950/)
* [Black Rabbit (2025)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23055142/)


Consumption: September 2025