I am big on finding content on the Internet that pique my interest and curiosity. Usually, this leads me down a rabbit hole of coffee-fueled research, especially on Sundays.

I am going to be sharing out some interesting links that I discovered each week on Sunday morning in a newsletter called “The Sunday Smash”.

Hope you get as much kick out of your Sunday as I do, by reading about them.

Here are things I thought were interesting, or found useful.

When It’s Time to Stop Designing and Start Coding

Using the four levels of knowledge, this post writes about a framework that can be used to decide when an engineer can switch from designing to coding.

A toy DNS resolver

Julia Evans is one of my favorite bloggers and I absolutely love the zines . This particular post describes a tiny version of the DNS resolver written in GO.

Writing One-Pagers in Product Management

If you are working in tech, you cannot escape writing documents. If you are a product manager in tech, one-pagers are ubiquitous.

Leadership is Not Atomic

Effective leadership is a holistic combination of many skills.

Testing Distributed Systems

A curated list of resources on testing distributed systems.

Rajinikanth in Free Software

Engineers leave references to some of their favorite things in code and comments. Looks like Rajnikanth made it as well.

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