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Thank you to Paper for sponsoring! Check them out at http://bigboxswe.dev/paper Music as usual gatekept References Eero Alvar "Bodybuilding for the mind": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DtxUJ6rAc Your brain on AI study: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/ 2019 meta analysis on the impact of coding on creative problem solving: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-52944-001 Amazon Anti-tokenmaxxing memo: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/amazon-ai-coding-tokenmaxxing.html Harvard study showing the introduction of AI doesn't speed up software projects: https://fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf Circular buffer optimisation: https://lo.calho.st/posts/black-magic-buffer/ Linux thread introduction: https://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2020/05/29/95 Boot.dev learn C (non-affiliate) https://www.boot.dev/courses/learn-memory-management-c C projects: https://github.com/nCally/Project-Based-Tutorials-in-C C Official documentation: https://cppreference.com/c/language