28-Jun
Read
- The Bitter Lesson — Rich Sutton’s argument that compute-scaling beats hand-engineered features every time. Short and devastating. Keeps rattling around my head.
- A Mathematician’s Lament — Paul Lockhart on how math education strips the subject of everything beautiful. If you’ve ever felt like math class killed your curiosity, this explains why.
Watched
- The Art of Code — Dylan Beattie’s talk on creative coding, from quines to Rockstar (a programming language designed to look like 80s rock lyrics). Funny and genuinely insightful about what code is.
15-Jun
Tools
- tldraw — A collaborative whiteboard that’s fast and doesn’t try to do too much. Been using it for system design sketches.
- Excalidraw — Similar, but with a hand-drawn aesthetic that makes diagrams look less corporate. Good for README screenshots.
Saved for later
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences — Wigner’s 1960 paper. I’ve been meaning to read this properly instead of just citing it in conversations.
- Visualizing Quaternions — 3Blue1Brown and Ben Eater’s interactive explainer. Bookmarked for when I inevitably need to understand rotations in 3D.