Books read in 2026

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (in progress)

Audiobooks in 2026

• Gravity Let Me Go

Online reading in 2026

(I keep track of online reading with Quiver)

• The Rust Programming Language (in progress)
• Best things I read in 2025 (in progress)
• Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot to AI, adds $127 million in value
• Why Smart Kids Are Unpopular: Intelligence vs. Social Life
• Using unwrap() in Rust: Error Handling Best Practices
• China's Ambition: Leading the Next Techno-Scientific Revolution
• Understanding and Sizing Database Connection Pools
• Why Now is the Time to Start Writing a Personal Blog
• Forecast: AI's impact on white-collar jobs and the economy
• AI Models, Apps, and Harnesses: A Guide to AI Usage
• Don’t be that Reptile - Joscha Bach
• Building my own grep with codecrafters | by Siraj Samsudeen | Medium
• Something is Going on with Colorectal Cancer
• Thrive in obscurity
• S3 Bucket Namesquatting: Abusing Predictable AWS Naming Patterns
• The plight of nerds - Joscha Bach
• From Tony Hoare to Graydon Hoare - The Rust Programming Language Forum
• Programming Bottom-Up
• Improving Code Readability: Linearity vs. Abstraction
• Cognitive Load and Software Architecture Principles
• The Addiction to Usefulness in Software Engineering
• Traits of Exceptional Programmers and Developers
• LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards
• “This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
• Why GNU grep is fast: Optimization techniques for text searching
• Two Beautiful Rust Programs
• AWS Networking Basics: A Mini-book Guide
• Identifying the 'Main Thing': A Guide to Focus in Tech
• The Interwoven Core of Rust's Design
• The power of inclusion: A reflection on college friendships
• AWS S3 Namespaces: Preventing Bucketsquatting Attacks
• How AI is Accelerating Careers for Graduates in Professional Services