Mediashelf

What I am reading, listening, and watching

2026

August

• 28th

  • 2nd listen of Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (exceptional audiobook)

• 20th

  • Tony (2026)

• 6th

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

• 5th

  • Pi’s Minimalism Is Its Advantage

July

• 26th
  • Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026

June

• 21st

  • Loop Engineering

• 8th

  • Attention Is All You Need
    • Finally read it lol

• 7th

  • How LLMs Actually Work
  • Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.

• 5th

  • Emotional management

• 3rd

  • Lesson 8: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
  • Lesson 7: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022

• 2nd

  • Lesson 6: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
  • Lesson 5: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022

• 1st

  • Lesson 3: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022

May

• 28th

  • Lesson 4: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
  • Lesson 2: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022

• 27th

  • Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 1
  • Building makemore Part 3: Activations & Gradients, BatchNorm

• 25th

  • Building makemore Part 2: MLP

• 18th

  • The Founder (2016)

• 15th

  • Building Thrive Capital with Josh Kushner

• 13th

  • Concentration and Conviction with Josh Kushner

• 12th

  • The Wu Tapes

• 11th

  • Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

April

• 30th

  • Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
  • The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemore

• 28th

  • The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd

• 27th

  • Hell Yeah or No: what’s worth doing by Derek Sivers
  • If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?: Or: How the 2020s broke our brains

• 26th

  • What Async Promised and What it Delivered

• 25th

  • What is Zig's Comptime?
  • Crimes with Go Generics

• 22nd

  • Hell’s Kitchen: Getting through the day—and night—with a New York chef.
  • Don’t Eat Before Reading This

• 16th

  • Claude Code is overkill - Pi is All you Need
  • Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
  • I've sold out

• 14th

  • Finished A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston

• 8th

  • Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

• 6th

  • Devon Zuegel is Building a New Town
  • Why a ‘Boring’ Life Might Be the Happiest One

• 5th

  • The Anti-Social Century

• 4th

  • The Education of the Broligarchy
  • The Monks in the Casino

• 1st

  • Inside Cursor: Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn
  • The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream

March

• 31st

  • Seeing like a spreadsheet: How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America

• 29th

  • Only 16 People a Night Can Eat This 17-Course Omakase
  • This Deli Turns Into Philadelphia’s Best New Restaurant at Night
  • The #1 Cheesesteak In Philly That Won a Michelin Award
  • Review: Middle Child Clubhouse is an engaging new restaurant balancing familiarity with clever remakes
  • The Cognitive Dark Forest

• 20th

  • American Diner Gothic

• 12th

  • The Sentinel Object Pattern

• 6th

  • Most Widely Deployed and Used Database Engine
  • Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code.

Feburary

• 26th

  • 10 Years Building Vertical Software: My Perspective on the Selloff

• 25th

  • WTF Happened in 2025?

• 24th

  • The Mind's A Field
  • Feynman's Garden
  • AI makes you boring

• 21st

  • Child’s Play: Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

• 18th

  • How to make something great

• 17th

  • Finished Permutaion City by Greg Egan
  • I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed.
  • Do Metaprojects

• 15th

  • Fragments: February 13
  • Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

• 6th

  • State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490

• 5th

  • how do I stop participating?
  • you have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
  • George Hotz | Programming | how I actually use agentic coding | Agentic AI

• 4th

  • A Software Library with No Code
  • A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks.

January

• 31st

  • Why Elixir/OTP doesn't need an Agent framework: Part 2
  • Why Elixir/OTP doesn't need an Agent framework: Part 1

• 29th

  • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019

    Wow, Elixir is so based

• 28th

  • Beating the Averages

  • Type Safety Back and Forth

    By restricting our past, we gain freedom in the future.

  • Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

• 26th

  • Parse, don’t validate
  • Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)

• 24th

  • Unrolling the Codex agent loop

• 21st

  • Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies

• 18th

  • The Melancholy of Subculture Society
  • Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969

• 14th

  • Scaling long-running autonomous coding
  • Why We Built Our Own Background Agent

• 7th

  • Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
  • The rise of industrial software

• 1st

  • My startup diary: Techstars
  • The Productivity Myth: Oliver Burkeman On Our Broken Relationship With Time, Embracing Our Limitations & Why More Isn’t Always Better
  • The Dying Art of Being a Bum: On "Useless Humans" in the Age of AI