I’m a software engineering student that likes creating stuff and exploring what happens under the hood of computers. I decided to start devography to log my learning journey and share my thoughts, ideas and learnings during this process. If you want the deep lore on why I’m doing this Checkout out this post.
Devography is simply a blog where I document what I learn from books, papers and similar content , any thoughts or ideas I would like to share. Its different from most blogs because each post evolves with time as I append new content to correct whatever I wrote before or complement it without scrubing its history. Nothing gets deleted. When I get something wrong, I simply annotate it with a correction. The result is hopefully an honest record of how my understanding evolves over time as I learn and apply more complex concepts.
Most posts are book notes that cover chapters and sections of books I’m currently wrestling with. Summaries, thoughts, and ideas from the reading go in first. Corrections and deeper insights get layered on top with each revisit.
Principles
This site is built upon these few simple principles
- Always learning: Every post builds on what came before.
- Transparency over perfection: First impressions stay; corrections are appended.
- No ads: This site exists to document and share, not monetize.
Why even bother?
You might be wondering: why spend all this time writing about stuff that hundreds of books have already covered and risk getting absolutely cooked for my mistakes? That’s a fair question. In fact, it’s the whole point of this blog. Through my learning journey, I’ve come to a realization that what often holds back the next generation of computer scientists and engineers (including me) from pushing further is the fear to even think of surpassing the limits set by the John Carmacks and Linus Torvalds. The result? We treat boundaries like they’re unquestionable sacred walls not good suggestions without bothering to know why or how they work. Creativity, self-expression, and real ingenuity slowly fade away, replaced by endless “how I built this in 24 hours” videos, not that they are bad or anyhting, it’s just the enginuity slowly fades with time. Atleast that’s what I have observered.
My goal is simple: to show that failure, confusion, and misunderstanding aren’t things to hide. They’re a normal, permanent part of the learning process. And it never really stops. I hope that my experinces and learnings shared throught this blog may inspire others like me to learn in their own unique ways and gain the skills to express themselves in ways that are helpful to themselves and society.
Disclaimer
All book titles, cover images, and quoted material belong to their respective authors and publishers. These are personal study notes and commentary not reproductions. If something here interests you, please support the authors by buying and reading their material.