Influences

listening to this, and then a podcast about the telephone made me comfortable that i could learn any and everything about how the internet worked.

this was a big one. took a few months for it to really click. but when it did, i realized i could no longer not learn how to code (unless all of this was wrong. it is right).

not specifically this post, but the graphics that accompanied it

one of those things that’s hard to unsee or stop speaking about once you see it

i felt this one so deeply because it relates to how certain sedimentary rocks form — accretion. most software is an ongoing effort.

this was a major unblock for me after hearing people talk about building for so long. they were talking about building abstractions. iteratively. over time.

this book for sure. it starts so simple. too simple. if-else + loops → … → every conceivable form of software

this one helped a lot with seeing over the horizon and i saw it play out for a few companies in 2020 (when time moved very fast and very slow)