Bookshelf
Fiction, literary fiction, and tech — whatever I'm reading, finished, or have queued up.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
The book I recommend most — it made distributed systems tradeoffs click in a way years of blog posts hadn't.
You Don't Know JS
Kyle Simpson
Forced me to actually understand scope, closures, and prototypes instead of just knowing they exist.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Every line is quotable, and the central conceit still feels sharp over a century later.
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Short enough to read in one sitting, but the family's slow indifference is what actually stays with you.
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
Genuinely laugh-out-loud funny for a book written in 1889 — the digressions are the best part.