Hi! I'm Matous, software engineer, hybrid athlete and passionate cook. Sometimes I also write. ↓
2024
Some notes on New Zealand
October
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Death's End by Cixin Liu
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals by Tyler Cowen
Golang PGO
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
December
2023
Hey computer, what's the time?
November
October
September
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
June
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
May
Tiny Habits by Bj Fogg PhD
How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
April
The Road to Character by David Brooks
March
How do CloudFlare Workers work?
Stranger in a Strange Land by Rober A. Heinlein
February
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Staff Engineer by Will Larson
Show, don't tell
2022 Review
January
Training for the Uphill Athlete by Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet
December
2022
November
The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
October
September
August
July
June
May
Our approach to Golang APIs
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
April
Go generics: Baby steps
February
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Learning Math
January
Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett
December
2021 Review
2021
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
November
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
October
September
August
July
Educated by Tara Westover
June
May
Back up your MacOS
Localization in a few lines of code
April
Spotify TUI
Growth by Vaclav Smil
Preventing path traversal in Golang
March
February
January
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Backcountry skiing in Switzerland 2020
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
December
2020
2020 Review
November
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
October
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
This blog weights ~10kb
How to setup you terminal on MacOS for powerusers
Backpacking Georgia in 14 days
Cryptographic Hash Functions explained
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Never Split the Difference by Christopher Voss
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Keeping your finances at check with Ledger
Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson
How To Fail at Almost Everything And Still Win Big by Scott Adams
Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Business Adventures by John Brooks
2019
A briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking