Miscellaneous

The Rust Programming Language

The best introduction to Rust and to careful systems thinking.

Attention Is All You Need

The transformer paper. Read it. Read it again.

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

The book that made me actually understand functional programming.

Types and Programming Languages (Pierce)

Dense but foundational. The type theory Bible.

Emergent World Representations (Li et al.)

Evidence that LLMs build internal world models. Fascinating.

Neovim

My primary editor. Configured with Rust, LSP, and minimal plugins.

WezTerm

Cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust. Fast and configurable.

Nix / NixOS

Reproducible builds and dev environments. The learning curve is worth it.

Zed

When I want a faster feedback loop than Neovim. Written in Rust.

tokio

The async runtime. If you're building anything async in Rust, you're using this.

serde

Serialization/deserialization framework. A masterclass in Rust macro design.

nom

Parser combinator library. Functional, fast, and excellent for binary formats.

candle

Minimalist ML framework in Rust by Hugging Face. Closest thing to PyTorch we have.

matklad's blog

Author of rust-analyzer. Some of the best writing on Rust API design.

Without Boats

Deep dives into Rust language design, async, and Pin.

Lil'Log (Lilian Weng)

Best technical ML blog on the internet. Thorough, rigorous, readable.

Gwern.net

Long-form research and analysis. Not always right, always interesting.