Field Notes A reading wiki on computing

Field Notes

A reading wiki on computing

A small collection of notes I keep coming back to. Roughly Zettelkasten-shaped: each note is short, single-topic, and linked to its neighbours. The backlinks panel at the bottom of every note shows you who points here from elsewhere in the wiki.

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Recent notes

  1. Language Design

    · computing, theory, design

    Notes on what makes a programming language pleasant to use over time.

  2. Consistency Models

    · computing, theory

    The trade-off between availability, consistency, and partition-tolerance.

  3. Distributed Systems

    · computing, theory

    A grab-bag of notes on building reliable systems out of unreliable parts.

  4. Backlinks

    · method, implementation

    How the inverted link index gets built and rendered.

  5. Atomic Notes

    · method

    Why each note should hold exactly one idea.

  6. Zettelkasten

    · method, history

    A note-taking method built around small atomic notes that link to each other.

  7. About

    · meta

    This wiki is built with juicer using the juicerwiki theme. Notes live as flat markdown files under content/; every internal link automatically populates the linked note’s backlinks panel.