👓 What I read in 2025

Week 9, 2025

I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC
The Hidden Costs of Running a Global Engineering Team and Recipes for Mitigation
- A 3-hour gap is manageable.
- A 6-hour gap starts breaking things. Someone’s always sacrificing their schedule, and a one-day delay easily turns into two.
- A 9-hour gap? This is where things fall apart completely. Simple decisions that should take 30 minutes turned into multi-day sagas. By the time you got an answer to your question, the context had changed so much you needed to ask new questions.
Svelte is not Javascript
The Law of Leaky Abstractions

So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.
No Startup Has Ever Failed Because it Didn’t Have a Blog
- Airbnb tackled crappy check-in rates by bringing their cameras into homes and taking better photos, not by blogging about the future of holiday stays.
The Deep Research problem - OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it.

LLMs are good at the things that computers are bad at, and bad at the things that computers are good at.
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines
Watt The Fox?
Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful than Exhaust, Study Finds

The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
KRDS v1.0.0 - 대한민국 정부 디자인 시스템
https://shapecatcher.com/ - Unicode Character Recognition
Psychological Safety and the Only Pyramid Scheme That Works

As people feel more and more secure in doing deployments, raising issues and speaking confidently in a company, the amount of failure goes down.
Kind Engineering - How To Engineer Kindness
UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.
DoubleClickjacking: A New Era of UI Redressing - get users to commit to clicking twice, but the pop up page only accepts a single click before closing. Their second click goes to the page underneath the pop up, which is e.g. an authentication button. — nneonneo
Thoughts On A Month With Devin