Alexandru Cristiean's Reading

Programming, hacking, the Web etc.

• Letter to a young programmer, Guido Van Rossum⤤
• How To Become A Hacker, Eric Steven Raymond⤤
• Undergraduation, Paul Graham⤤
• The Word "Hacker", Paul Graham⤤
• Great Hackers, Paul Graham⤤
• Netiquette, Virginia Shea⤤
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, Peter Norvig⤤
• Wat (video), Gary Bernhardt⤤
• georgehotzarchive (YouTube channel), George Hotz
• rossmanngroup (YouTube channel), Louis Rossman
• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction (LinkedIn Engineering Blog), Jay Kreps

Learn

• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, Eric Steven Raymond⤤
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education, CSAIL MIT⤤
• Essence of linear algebra, 3Blue1Brown

Other

• Being a Noob, Paul Graham⤤
• How to Do What You Love, Paul Graham⤤
• What You'll Wish You'd Known, Paul Graham⤤
• The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization, Moxie Marlinspike
• A Child’s Guide to Maimonides’ Ladder of Tzedakah, Regina Greenspun
• Why Ceausescu’s 1978 state visit was far more humiliating than Trump’s ever could be, The Spectator⤤
• Shooting an elephant, George Orwell⤤

On my list

• SICP
• Bronze age mindset
• Strunk and White - The elements of style
• The computer and the brain by von Neumann
• Gödel, Escher, Bach
• Capitalism without capital
• The Art of Unix Programming, Eric Steven Raymond⤤
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Steven Raymond⤤

Last updated on 07 July 2025, 14:53