A collection of awesome media resources (videos, books, podcasts, etc).

Table of contents

• Books
  • Books I've read
  • Books I'm currently reading
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Other links

Books

Books are great, and my absolute favorite way to learn something new.

Books I've read

This is a forever incomplete list of books that I've read. I aspire to review every book I read nowadays.

• Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman
  • By Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye, 2009
  • ISBN: 9780596518387
  • Book review
• CPython Internals
  • By Anthony Shaw
  • ISBN: 9781775093344
  • Book review
• Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us
  • By Eugene Spafford, Josiah Dykstra, Leigh Metcalf
  • ISBN: 9780137929238
  • Book review
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
  • By Martin Kleppman
  • ISBN: 9781449373320
• Kuburnetes Up and Running (3rd ed)
  • By Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower, Lachlan Evenson
  • ISBN: 9781098110208
• The Rust Programming Language
  • By Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, 2018
  • ISBN: 9781593278281
  • Book review
• Writing an Interpreter in Go
  • By Thorsten Ball, 2018
  • ISBN: 9783982016115
  • Book review
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
  • By Kevlin Henney, 2010
  • ISBN: 9780596809485
  • Book review

Books I'm currently reading

These are the books I'm currently reading, which I aspire to move over to the books I've read (along with a review).

• Building Git
  • By James Coglan, 2019
  • Website
• Mastering PostgreSQL 15
  • By Hans-Jurgen Schonig, 2023
  • ISBN: 9781803248349
• The Linux Programming Interface
  • By Michael Kerrisk, 2010
  • ISBN: 9781593272203

Videos

• Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022
  • Incredibly entertaining talk on text encodings and related shenanigans
• Keynote: Why web tech is like this - Steve Sanderson - NDC Copenhagen 2022
• Keynote: Apps, Algorithms and Abstractions: Decoding our Digital World - Dylan Beattie - NDC 2018
• No Nonsense Monad & Functor - The foundation of Functional Programming by César Tron-Lozai
  • Practical description of Functors and Monads, without (most of) the math

Podcasts

• Python Bytes
  • First podcast I ever listened to
  • Great long-running Python Podcast
  • Blog post
• Talk Python To Me
  • Micheal Kennedy's (from Python Bytes) own show
  • Blog post
• _Podcast.__init___
  • Similar to Talk Python To Me
  • Blog post
• TalkScript
  • Web development focused on Java/TypeScript podcast
• New Rustacean
  • Awesome Rust podcast
  • Unfortunately has ended, but served me as a great introduction to the Rust programming language and ecosystem
  • Mentioned in my article on learning a new programming language

Other links

• A guide to home row mods
  • Comprehensive introduction to home row mods