--- title: "Miscellany" description: "The archive's odds and ends — talks, tools, and rabbit holes that don't fit a category but are worth your time." canonical_url: "https://fanout.sh/ai/misc" md_url: "https://fanout.sh/ai/misc.md" access: "public" --- # Miscellany The archive's odds and ends — talks, tools, and rabbit holes that don't fit a category but are worth your time. ## Resources ### [System Design For Beginners: Everything You Need in One Article](https://medium.com/@shivambhadani_/system-design-for-beginners-everything-you-need-in-one-article-c74eb702540b) - Category: Computer Science ### [Putting the 'You' in CPU](https://cpu.land/) - Category: Computer Science ### [Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science](https://mfleck.cs.illinois.edu/building-blocks/index-sp2020.html) - Category: Computer Science ### [Compiler Explorer](https://godbolt.org/) - Category: Computer Science ### [Reversing Bits](https://mohitmishra786.github.io/reversingBits/) - Category: Computer Science ### [Practices of Reliable Software Design](https://entropicthoughts.com/practices-of-reliable-software-design) - Category: Computer Science ### [Multithreading in Python](https://medium.com/@ArtificialintelligenceEn/multithreading-in-python-d3631e4e4234) - Category: Computer Science ### [Creating a Brainrot Language Server in Golang](https://jitesh117.github.io/blog/creating-a-brainrot-language-server-in-golang/) - Category: Computer Science ### [Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)](https://youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?si=2SkhuhEtWrk54E_G) - Category: Computer Science ### [My LLM codegen workflow atm](https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/) - Category: Computer Science ### [How I backup](https://sive.rs/backup) - Category: Computer Science ### [How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages](https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages) - Category: Computer Science ### [How LedgerStore Supports Trillions of Indexes at Uber](https://www.uber.com/en-CA/blog/how-ledgerstore-supports-trillions-of-indexes/) - Category: Computer Science ### [How to learn compilers: LLVM Edition](https://lowlevelbits.org/how-to-learn-compilers-llvm-edition/) - Category: Computer Science ### [TCP Server in Zig — Part 1](https://www.openmymind.net/TCP-Server-In-Zig-Part-1-Single-Threaded/) - Category: Computer Science ### [How HTTPS Works](https://howhttps.works/) - Category: Computer Science ### [How Many Computers Are In Your Computer?](https://gwern.net/computers) - Category: Computer Science ### [Engineering for Slow Internet](https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet) - Category: Engineering ### [How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab](https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor) - Category: Engineering ### [South Pole Electrical Infrastructure](https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-electrical-infrastructure) - Category: Engineering ### [The Insane Engineering of the A-10 Warthog](https://youtu.be/wk6Qr6OO5Xo?si=dst0Xa3Av83rWRd9) - Category: Engineering ### [The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope](https://youtu.be/aICaAEXDJQQ?si=P6lDA2XJDQxPAD_V) - Category: Engineering ### [What is Engineering?: Crash Course Engineering #1](https://youtu.be/btGYcizV0iI?si=Ik6-5BC_bKDCnAdZ) - Category: Engineering ### [The Map of Engineering](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgxiQAMTTo) - Category: Engineering ### [How Hotstar Scaled 25 Million Concurrent Users](https://youtu.be/9b7HNzBB3OQ?si=FKY-PXiNyfK9VOYn) - Category: Engineering ### [The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes)](https://youtu.be/ibaqq-smj5g?si=riNAZHlZ2HEQtYL6) - Category: Engineering ### [Bicycle — Bartosz Ciechanowski](https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/) - Category: Physics ### [Airfoil — Bartosz Ciechanowski](https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/) - Category: Physics ### [Why is the Speed of Light So Fast? (Part 1)](https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/10/01/why-is-the-speed-of-light-so-fast-part-1/) - Category: Physics ### [Space Elevator](https://neal.fun/space-elevator/) - Category: Physics ### [Proving God exists using Math](https://youtu.be/z0hxb5UVaNE?si=O8wcvKgHUAYOpizA) - Category: Mathematics ### [Animation vs. Math](https://youtu.be/B1J6Ou4q8vE?si=pahj3O0FT3aH9lQT) - Category: Mathematics ### [When To Do What You Love](https://paulgraham.com/when.html) - Category: Philosophy ### [Embrace The Chaos of Your Life](https://noghartt.dev/blog/embrace-the-chaos-of-your-life/) - Category: Philosophy ### [lifehacks — Alexey Guzey](https://guzey.com/lifehacks) - Category: Philosophy ### [What Can You Learn from Photographing Your Life?](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-can-you-learn-from-photographing-your-life) - Category: Philosophy ### [Studying Yourself](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-OjfiiiQ82XeMzSDXHy-o1QPCrMr_E0MJ7h8oTOdcU/edit) - Category: Philosophy ### [As a society, we're not death phobic, we're death complacent](https://psyche.co/ideas/as-a-society-were-not-death-phobic-were-death-complacent) - Category: Philosophy ### [Purpose](https://www.stonechat.dev/posts/purpose) - Category: Philosophy ### [Advice — Patrick Collison](https://patrickcollison.com/advice) - Category: Career ### [Mistakes I Made When I Started Programming](https://minami.bearblog.dev/my-mistakes-as-a-noob-programmer/) - Category: Career ### [How to learn at college](https://brennancolberg.com/writing/how-to-learn-at-college) - Category: Career ### [The hardest question to answer](https://youtu.be/hQNHb4kNHVE?si=oRiKZrlRJbFkwVrV) - Category: Career ### [THE STAR METHOD](https://www.vawizard.org/wiz-pdf/STAR_Method_Interviews.pdf) - Category: Career ### [Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing](https://ig.ft.com/microchips/) - Category: Hardware ### [How a Car Works](https://www.howacarworks.com/) - Category: Hardware ### [Underactuated Robotics](https://underactuated.csail.mit.edu/index.html) - Category: Hardware ### [How I Built an Electric Car at 16](https://youtu.be/X3_G4lo7YCs?si=TotItaT7uMhPIUQD) - Category: Hardware ### [nand2tetris](https://www.nand2tetris.org/) - Category: Hardware ### [Internal Combustion Engine — Bartosz Ciechanowski](https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/) - Category: Hardware ### [Starship | Fifth Flight Test](https://youtu.be/hI9HQfCAw64?si=OJvUbfwSLzhDQ2mQ) - Category: Hardware ### [How NASA Is Hacking Voyager 1 Back to Life](https://spectrum.ieee.org/voyager-1) - Category: Hardware ### [Neurotechnology Numbers Worth Knowing](https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/neurotechnology_numbers_worth_knowing/) - Category: Medical ### [Your Immune System is Not a Muscle](https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-08-13-crowds-vs-friends/) - Category: Medical ### [Addiction Pathways in the Brain](https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/addiction-pathway-brain) - Category: Medical ### [Buy Wisely](https://stephango.com/buy-wisely) - Category: Finance ### [Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph](https://matheusportela.com/double-entry-bookkeeping-as-a-directed-graph) - Category: Finance ### [Eventually consistent plain text accounting](https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2024/10/24/plain-text-accounting/) - Category: Finance ### [Naval on Wealth](https://x.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936) - Category: Finance ### [Why do I let myself sabotage my own best-laid plans?](https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-i-let-myself-sabotage-my-own-best-laid-plans) - Category: Other ### [A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python](https://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/) - Category: Other ### [You can think like an animal by silencing your chattering brain](https://psyche.co/ideas/you-can-think-like-an-animal-by-silencing-your-chattering-brain) - Category: Other ### [The Deep Sea](https://neal.fun/deep-sea/) - Category: Other --- This representation contains public Fanout content only. 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