I just finished reading this [0]. Your story-telling abilities are great. Your technical abilities as well. As a hobbyist search engine "engineer" doing independent research and slowly building on my search engine code base, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I'd also like to mention that I'll be using [0] as a template for how to describe to the public my own process of researching and my though process for picking and choosing a particular piece of tech/data structure/solution.

Just a splendid read.

[0] https://boyter.org/posts/abusing-aws-to-make-a-search-engine...