Continuing to reflect on articles and videos that I read and watched in recent years. Here is year 2025.
The year of AI/Claude (26 articles!) — Claude Skills, MCP, agents, and AI analysis dominated the reading list. Cloudflare incident analysis became a recurring theme (4 articles). Programming language debates emerged (Go, Rust, Python, C). Completed the full 3Blue1Brown “Essence of linear algebra” course. Python uv tooling continued from 2024. Total: 68 articles and videos.
Claude / AI Agents / Skills#
- Claude Code Docs
- Claude Docs - Agent Skills - Skill authoring best practices
- Claude Docs - Agent Skills - Overview
- Build with Claude Code - Agent Skills
- How to create custom Skills
- Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
- Skills explained: How Skills compares to prompts, Projects, MCP, and subagents
- Writing a good CLAUDE.md
- Getting Good Results from Claude Code
- Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform
- MCP Agentic AI Crash Course With Python
- What if you don’t need MCP at all?
- Deep Agents
- How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world
AI / LLM Analysis#
- The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
- The AI Gap is Widening
- The Collapse of AI Reasoning (by Apple)
- Your Brain on ChatGPT
- POV: What You Would See During an AI Takeover
- Can LLMs replace on call SREs today?
- Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less
- AI: Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Meta’s Brain-to-Text AI
- Revolutionizing software testing: Introducing LLM-powered bug catchers
- Work with Apps on macOS (ChatGPT)
- How to Make LLMs Shut Up
Cloudflare Outages / Incident Analysis#
- Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
- Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
- Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on July 14, 2025
- The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience
- What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems
SRE / Platform Engineering#
- The Evolution of SRE at Google
- Why Heroism Is Bad
- SRE Report 2025 from catchpoint
- Principal Engineer Roles Framework
- The next platform
- How Agoda Transitioned to Private Cloud
- Demystifying Automatic Instrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works
Software Engineering / Architecture#
- Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever
- The Grug Brained Developer
- Locality of Behaviour (LoB)
- Lessons from a Decade of Complexity: Microservices to Simplicity
- The 13 software engineering laws
- How to use stacked PRs to unblock your entire team
- Is It Possible To Scale Software Engineering Culture?
Programming Languages#
- What Color is Your Function?
- Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
- Golang Performance Penalty in Kubernetes
- Is Python… UGLY? The Unpopular Opinion
- "… maybe the problem is you" - Linus (Rust vs C in Linux kernel)
Python Tooling#
- UV tricks
- A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
- Using mise + uv + dbt-core to build a dbt environment from scratch
Databases / Infrastructure#
- Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
- Postgres is Too Good (And Why That’s Actually a Problem)
- Apache Kafka vs. Fluvio Benchmarks
- Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
- The case of the vanishing CPU: A Linux kernel debugging story
Math / CS Fundamentals#
Tools#
Productivity / Self-improvement#
- How to Reprogram Your Brain to Achieve Anything
- 1% Better Every Day: The Routine That Changed My Life
- Detailed summary of digital minimalism by Cal Newport
- Burnout ≠ Working Too Much
- Learn to Love Networking