# top books read — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover top books read. Page: Feed: --- ## [Evaluating your Agentic Harnesses](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/evaluating-your-agentic-harnesses) _2026-08-12 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ One good demo is a test flight. An eval suite is the flight-test campaign: pass rates, cost, latency, and failure modes. ## [Self hosting LLMs with Llama.cpp](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/self-hosting-llms-with-llamacpp) _2026-07-28 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ Putting your Mac to work ## [Reflections after six weeks of building on my own](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/reflections-after-six-weeks-of-building) _2026-07-28 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ I left my job 6 weeks ago to build my own company, and I have not posted any articles on Substack since then. ## [July's Favorite Finds](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/julys-favorite-finds) _2026-07-21 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ I was never one to want busy summers but as the kids have grown so have the activities and I do love the community and joy they provide. ## [Building an Advanced Agentic Harness](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/building-an-advanced-agentic-harness) _2026-07-15 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents. ## [Build a (small) language model by counting](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/build-a-small-language-model-by-counting) _2026-06-24 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ A 4-gram model on WikiText-103, and the one idea it shares with Claude. ## [June's Favorite Finds](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/junes-favorite-finds) _2026-06-23 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ Summer is exploding into bloom. ## [Three Books for Father's Day](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/three-books-for-fathers-day) _2026-06-16 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ When it's complicated . . . ## [I’m leaving Momos](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/im-leaving-momos) _2026-06-15 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ Two years ago, I made a hard decision to go back to Vietnam to join Momos. I’m making another hard choice. I’m leaving to focus on building my own company. ## [How I built Momies](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/how-i-built-momies) _2026-06-09 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ And won (yet another) hackathon ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5ZxHo7XJ8HNe) _2026-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [The Bitter and the Sweet](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/the-bitter-and-the-sweet) _2026-05-31 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ What I taste when I taste strawberry jam ## [Building a Basic Agentic Harness](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/building-a-basic-agentic-harness) _2026-05-27 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ The secret sauce behind Claude Code, Open Clawd, Hermes, etc ## [The Old Joy of Writing Code Has Gone Away](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/the-old-joy-of-writing-code-has-gone) _2026-05-20 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ I’m probably not the first person to say this, but I’ve been experiencing it more frequently: the joy of making and fixing software is gone. ## [From News Articles to Knowledge Graphs with spaCy and NetworkX](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/from-news-articles-to-knowledge-graphs) _2026-05-09 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ Building a complete NLP pipeline to extract entities, discover relationships, and visualize knowledge networks from unstructured text ## [May's Favorite Finds](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/mays-favorite-finds) _2026-05-05 · The Quote Collector_ School is ending and every mother is gearing up for “Maycember,” one of the busiest months of the year. ## [Unreasonable Actions Yield Reasonable Results](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/unreasonable-actions-yield-reasonable) _2026-04-27 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ I just finished reading Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara. The core idea of the book is to go the extra mile, to do things that are unreasonable by conventional standards ## [Airline Traffic Between States](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/airline-traffic-between-states) _2026-04-21 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ Use custom made pie charts to visualize U.S. Map of State-to-State Travel ## [AI Adoption](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/ai-adoption) _2026-04-18 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ I gave a talk about AI agents at NUS yesterday. ## [Free writing](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/free-writing) _2026-04-13 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ I (re-)discovered free writing lately. ## [Graph Neural Networks 101](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/graph-neural-networks-101) _2026-04-12 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ Predicting Molecular Properties from Scratch ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Y0fL1HpqKJPj) _2026-04-12 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Gardening Gift Books](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/gardening-gift-books) _2026-03-16 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ Here in the mid-Atlantic region we’ve had the snowiest winter in recent memory and I’ve enjoyed every bit of it. ## [My Hiring Philosophy](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/my-hiring-philosophy) _2026-01-26 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ I’m writing this to explain what I’m looking for to help candidates prepare better before applying to Momos, which might also applies for other startups. ## [The Alchemy of Emma M. Lion](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/the-alchemy-of-emma-m-lion) _2026-01-18 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ With very few exceptions, I don’t tend to like books written as letters or journals. ## [Top 10 Books we read in 2025](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/top-10-books-we-read-in-2025) _2026-01-10 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ A year’s worth of the best Large Language Models, Software Engineering, AI, and Algorithms. ## [Cursor Hackathon: A Reflection](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/cursor-hackathon-a-reflection) _2026-01-08 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ Last November, I participated in the Cursor Hackathon in Ho Chi Minh City and won. ## [Top 5 Books I Read in 2025](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/top-5-books-i-read-in-2025) _2026-01-01 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ and everything else I read too ## [Top 10 Books I read in 2025](https://nvbinh.substack.com/p/top-10-books-i-read-in-2025) _2025-12-30 · Binh Nguyen · Binh’s Newsletter_ Finally, I can finish this top 10 books post before the year’s end. ## [Gift Guide for Moms](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/gift-guide-for-moms) _2025-11-24 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ Accessories for the Cozy Season ## [An Advent Reading Guide](https://danielleayersjones.substack.com/p/an-advent-reading-guide) _2025-11-17 · Danielle Jones · The Quote Collector_ “The Son of God became man to enable men to become the Sons of God.” ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FKQtr5rfrv0G) _2025-11-17 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [Demographic processes](https://data4sci.substack.com/p/demographic-processes) _2025-04-14 · Bruno Gonçalves · Data For Science_ Simulating Epidemics with Birth and Death rates