Reads

What Makes You You? — Article exploring theories of personal identity and what makes us who we are

How people fall apart — Essay discussing burnout’s impact on the brain

Message authentication codes for safer distributed transactions — A short post on using message authentication codes to prevent bugs in distributed systems

Deterministic Simulation Testing — A brief introduction to Deterministic Simulation Testing. A crucial framework for building reliable distributed systems.

Why SQLite Uses Bytecode — An explanation of why SQLite uses bytecode for easier understanding and debugging. The most exciting thing is that this comes from an interesting convo on Twitter¹