20/05/2025
The initial idea for this came from Derek Sivers and his now page. I’m going to be using it to share daily or weekly updates about my study, work and my projects. Derek always shares great content out there and still updates his now page, after 9+ years. Last I checked he was learning Mandarin, reading about AI and taking care of his pet rats.
I will post here frequently and share my journey as a software developer.
What I’m working on: This website with Hugo. I am going to be hosting this on my Hetzner instance and spining up my usual Nginx setup. This app will live right beside my other project, Recommendit which is a little show recommendation app I’ve made in my spare time.
What I’m reading: Designing Data-Intensive Applications This 600-pager seems to have everything regarding building scalable and maintainable systems. I’ve been suggested this a few times by different developers, and it was frequently shared on LinkedIn. With more time on my hands, it’s a great way to sharpen your skills. I might keep a separate notes-blog for this.
A great playlist I’m listening to: CBS: Pop Rock and Funk Records from Yugoslavia Great lists of underrated songs from the 70s that you’ve never listened to.
21/05/2025
What I’m working on: My Redis Implementation with CodeCrafters. A Great way to sharpen your skills, according to this advice from ThePrimaegen is to implement things from scratch. This is why I’m using most of my spare time nowadays to work on these types of projects, like my HTTP server implementation, Redis-lite implementation, and perhaps SQL Lite in the future. Doubling down on this projects is one of the best things I can do to speedup my job-finding process by enriching my portfolio.
What I’m reading: Today I grabbed Concurrency in C# Cookbook off the shelf, which delves deep into concurrency and different big topics. I made a short post with some notes on the book here, which I will update concurrently(no pun intended) with the Data Intensive Book Notes. A great read with an interesting style. I’ve found that having 2 or even 3 books at a time makes things overall more interesting with not much overhead in my case.
Great Tune I’m listening to: The Breeze and I (Spotify, Youtube)
22/05/2025
What I’m working on: Besides applying for jobs, I am trying hard on this SQL Lite from scratch project on Codecrafters. Codecrafters is a great platform to sharpen your skills as a developer of any experience. You do this by creating projects from scratch, that you regularly use, such as Http Server, Redis, or even your own BitTorrent.
What I’m reading: When a leap second broke half the internet by Nelson’s Webblog. An interesting throwback to 2012 where a Linux kernel thread with a misconfigured time broke all the services that depended on it, including MySQL, which was used for over 90% of the internet at the time. I found this piece from one of the references from Designing Data Intensive Systems