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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Book summary

— summary, book

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever — Book summary

— summary, book

How to lie with statistics — Book summary

— summary, book

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love — Book summary

— summary, book

Thinking in Bets — Book summary

— summary, book

Blue Zones: Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived — Paper Summary

— summary, paper

Don’t Thrash: How to Cache your Hash on Flash — Paper Summary

— summary, paper

How to Expose an Eavesdropper — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, cryptography

How to Share a Secret — Paper Summary

— summary, paper

How do committees invent? — Paper Summary

— summary, paper

Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing — Paper Summary

— summary, paper

Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security — Paper Summary

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Identity-based Cryptosystems and Signature Schemes — Paper Summary

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A lightweight design for serverless Function-as-a- Service — Paper Summary

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Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System — Paper Summary

— summary, paper

A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems — Paper Summary

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Why the Internet only just works — Paper Summary

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The Emperor's Old Clothes — Paper Summary

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Computers Then and Now — Paper Summary

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On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules — Paper Summary

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A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, wellbeing

Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, cryptography, security

Fast key-value stores An idea whose time has come and gone — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, distributedsystem

The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, internet

How the Hidden Hand Shapes the Market for Software Reliability — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, economics

The importance of stupidity in scientific research — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, science

Password Security: A Case History — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, security

Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, security

It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, networking, distributedsystems

A Note on the Confinement Problem — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, security

End-to-end arguments in system design — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, networking, distributedsystems

Go To Statement Considered Harmful — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, programming

Reflections on Trusting Trust — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, security

Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas? — Summary

— summary, paper, chaos

On the Relevance of IP Address in the Tracking Ecosystem — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, privacy

Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes) — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, concurrency

The Night Watch — Essay Summary

— summary, essay

Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, concurrency

Invent More, Toil Less — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, sre

The Erdós Paradox — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, math

In Praise of Idleness — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, society

Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, science, society

The Peril of Politicizing Science — Essay Summary

— summary, essay, science, society

The Value of Science — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, science

On Being Smart — Paper Summary

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Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, web3

The Problem of Thinking Too Much — Paper Summary

— summary, paper

Software Engineering at Google — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, engineering

How to Explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to Your Children — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, cryptography

What Satoshi Did Not Know — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, web3

The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, fitness, health

Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects on body composition and physical performance — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, fitness, health

How Complex Systems Fail — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, complexity, system

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, web3

Hardware is the new Software — Paper Summary

— summary, paper, hardware

Solo Cycling Adventure: Berlin → Dresden → Prague

— athlete, cycling, sport, fitness

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs — Book + MIT 6.001 + Berkeley CS61A Summary & Notes [WIP]

— notes, summary

The Design of Everyday Things — Book Summary & Notes

— notes, summary

A Philosophy of Software Design — Book Summary & Notes

— notes, summary

Computer Systems — A Programmer’s Perspective — Notes

— notes

Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn’t your OS? — Paper Summary

— summary

The Algorithm Design Manual - Notes

— notes

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming — Book Summary

— summary

Designing Data Intensive Applications — Book Notes

— summary, distributed systems

No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering — Paper Summary

— summary, complexity, software engineering

Out Of The Tar Pit — Paper Summary

— summary, complexity, testing

SICP — (Book + MIT 6.001 + Berkeley CS61A) Notes

— Book notes

Building a Distributed Android Remote Testing Platform - An Attempt to Make Real GUI Testing Affordable & Comprehensive

— android, testing, grpc

Rebuilding Apple Seamless Headphone Switch Feature with Kotlin MultiPlatform

— Bluetooth, Audio, Kotlin Multiplatform, Android

Agile Flow - Rap Song

— agile, rap

How to build a Cryptocurrency price list app using Flutter SDK

— flutter, dart

How I went from programming with a Nokia feature phone to working for an MIT Startup

— programming, mit, startup

Build A BBC World News Aggregator App In 35 Minutes — Building Android App Series

— android, firebase, zapier

10 Things New Android Developers Can Relate To

— android, jokes

How To Change The Device Ringtone On All Android Versions

— android, audio

Loading Images From JSON Response — Advanced Android Glide Tips Part 2

— android

Glide like a Boss — Advanced Android Glide Tips

— android

The Beauty of the Modulo Operator

— math

Challenges of building a multi-process Android App

— android, firebase, realm

The (Complete) Android Splash Screen Guide

— android, shazam, audio

Building a Shazam Clone Part 1 (Design) — Building Android Apps Series

— android, shazam, audio

Build J2ME apps with a J2ME phone - From the archive

— J2ME, Java

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