Cool Links
A curated collection of resources across different domains that I find valuable.
Blogs
Blogs I find fascinating and inspiring.
Martin Kleppmann
Writes about distributed systems, security, and software design, combining insights from his research at Cambridge with hands-on industry experience. Author of Designing Data-Intesive Applications.
Data • Distributed SystemsJulian Schrittwieser
Blogs about AI, low-level programming, and performance optimization, sharing insights from personal experiments and industry experience, including Google and Anthropic.
Programming • AI/MLDavid Morgan-Mar
Especially interesting blog about imaging science, travel diaries, comics, food, photography, esoteric language and algorithm designs, merging rigorous research with playful invention.
Life • Inventionsbeepb00p
Fascinating work of blog. It takes a completely fresh and creative approach to note-taking, especially the idea behind exobrain i.e. a space where you keep your bookmarks, notes, ideas, and thoughts.
Personal Wiki • ThinkingDaniel Estévez
Amateur radio, spacecraft communications, and digital signal processing - theory with hands-on experimentation. It's interesting to read about the intersection of radio, space and applied mathematics
Radio • MathematicsFrancis Bach
Focusing on machine learning theory and optimization algorithms. Author of Learning Theory from First Principles, blending deep mathematical insights with practical algorithmic contributions.
AI/ML • MathematicsDavid Gomes
Software engineer passionate about developer tooling, AI, and databases. Currently at Neon building the future of Postgres, after years of scaling distributed systems. Passionate about triathlons and marathon running.
Personal Wiki • ThinkingDaniel Holden
Explores machine learning, character animation, computer graphics, game development, and programming languages through code, articles, and occasional fiction. Awesome technical insights with a creative twist.
Animation • GraphicsBen Kuhn
Essays on technology, startups, and sharp thinking - project management, why squared error matters, and how to stare into the abyss. Shares lessons from building real-world systems while questioning defaults.
Thinking • ManagementBooks
Worthwhile reads for curious minds - mostly tech and science.
- Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Data Analytics
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Modern Fortran - Building efficient parallel applications
- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
- How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know
- Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
- Parallel and High Performance Computing
- Implementing MLOps in the Enterprise
- Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
- Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
- Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
- Deciphering Data Architectures
Data Architectures
Architectural breakdowns for scalable data systems.
- How Discord Uses Open-Source Tools for Scalable Data Orchestration & Transformation - July 2024
- Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm - March 2023
- Byte Down: Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective - July 2020
- How Discord Stores Billions of Messages - January 2017
- How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Scientific Computing
Science, history, and development of computational techniques.
Miscellaneous
Random cool stuff worth exploring.
- Neocities - Social network of 1,117,200 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web.
- HackerNews - Social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.
- Lobste.rs - Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion.
- h a l f b a k e r y - Discussions around half-baked ideas and concepts.
- indieblog.page - Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time.