Authors:
- Fabrice Bellard
- David Heinemeir Hansson
- Why the Lucky Stiff
- Markus Hutchins
- Mencius Moldbug
- Gwern Branwen
- Aaron Swartz
- Justine Tunney
- Francesco Vianello
- Kenton Varda
- Mike Pall
- Satoshi Nakamoto
- Stephen Huntley Watt
A*:
- https://davidkoloski.me/blog/intelligent-brute-forcing/
- https://blog.polybdenum.com/2017/07/26/solving-the-traveling-pacman-problem.html
Algo
- https://jiahai-feng.github.io/posts/cache-oblivious-algorithms/
- https://adriacabeza.github.io/2023/03/15/hyperloglog.html
- https://schwarzers.com/algorithms/
- https://www.python.org/doc/essays/graphs/
Timestep / Integrators:
- https://gafferongames.com/post/fix_your_timestep/
- https://gafferongames.com/post/integration_basics/
- https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/fixing-time-deltatime-in-unity-2020-2-for-smoother-gameplay
- https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/gpu/2021/10/22/swapchain-frame-pacing.html
Voxel meshing/rendering:
- https://0fps.net/2012/06/30/meshing-in-a-minecraft-game/
- https://0fps.net/2012/07/07/meshing-minecraft-part-2/
- https://tomcc.github.io/2014/08/31/visibility-1.html
- https://tomcc.github.io/2014/08/31/visibility-2.html
- https://coolcodea.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/optimal-culling/
Debugging:
- https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/sleeping-beauty
- https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/perfecting-glfw-for-zig-and-finding-undefined-behavior/
Design Methodology:
Animation:
- http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html
- https://cassidy.codes/blog/2017/04/25/ffmpeg-frames-to-gif-optimization/
- http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5.html
- http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Q_A_with_Mark_J_Ferrari.html
OO/GC:
OOP:
FP:
Hardware:
- https://www.eevblog.com/forum/general-computing/hacking-nvidia-cards-into-their-professional-counterparts/
- https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/oc-prozessoren-intel-sockel-1155-ivy-bridge-laberthread.885830/
- https://www.overclock.net/threads/3570k-ht-unlocked-4c-8t.1496007/#post_22467136'
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/every-7-8us-your-computers-memory-has-a-hiccup/
- https://icanhack.nl/blog/secoc-key-extraction/
OS:
WWW:
- https://drive.googleblog.com/2010/05/whats-different-about-new-google-docs.html
- https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-Canvas-Based-Rendering-Update.html
- https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-tool-on-the-web/
- https://www.figma.com/blog/improving-scrolling-comments-in-figma/
- https://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web
- https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html
- https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-battleships
- https://mashable.com/feature/hotornot-history-20-year-anniversary
- https://archcoder.com/ws-deathstar-how-i-hate-thee/
- https://world.hey.com/dhh/they-re-rebuilding-the-death-star-of-complexity-4fb5d08d
- https://world.hey.com/dhh/modern-web-apps-without-javascript-bundling-or-transpiling-a20f2755
- https://www.akitaonrails.com/2017/08/03/why-is-it-just-lazy-to-bad-mouth-ruby-on-rails
- https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposite-of-rest/?s=09
- https://quii.dev/HTMX_is_the_Future
- https://twobithistory.org/2018/12/18/rss.html
- https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
- https://bvisness.me/luax/
- https://data-star.dev/essays/grugs_around_fire
- https://fly.io/blog/how-we-got-to-liveview/
Webscale:
- https://blog.anycable.io/p/any-cables-monthly-20
- https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb
- https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a-single-server
Project Management:
- https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewrite-yolo/
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336890442768547845.html
Security:
- https://www.ezequiel.tech/p/36k-google-app-engine-rce.html
- https://crnkovic.dev/testing-converso/
- https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/
- https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html
- https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/19/hundreds-of-apps-banned-from-app-store-for-accessing-users-personal-information/
- https://github.com/JohnLaTwC/Shared/blob/master/The%20Inside%20Story%20Behind%20MS08-067.md
- https://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-mystery-and-they-say-its-partially-the-nsas-fault/
- https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hackers-target-cybersecurity-researchers/
RE:
- https://blog.caller.xyz/v380-ipcam-firmware-patching/
- https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/
Tools:
Databases:
- https://dx.tips/oops-database
- https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/
- https://www.dylanpaulus.com/posts/postgres-is-a-graph-database
- https://remy.wang/blog/sql-eq.html
- https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/
Concurrency:
Language Theory:
- https://www.npopov.com/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html
- https://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html
- http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/12/evaluating-cellular-automata-is.html
- https://www.haskellforall.com/2013/02/you-could-have-invented-comonads.html
Lanugage Practice:
- https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/#you-cant-actually-parse-a-c-header
- https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-function-abi
- https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/
- https://thephd.dev/c-the-improvements-june-september-virtual-c-meeting
- https://sillycross.github.io/2022/11/22/2022-11-22/
- https://sillycross.github.io/2023/05/12/2023-05-12/
- https://kyju.org/blog/piccolo-a-stackless-lua-interpreter/
- https://steveklabnik.com/writing/beware-subclassing-ruby-core-classes
- https://avdi.codes/why-you-shouldnt-inherit-from-rubys-core-classes-and-what-to-do-instead/
LMs:
- https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models
- https://flower-nutria-41d.notion.site/No-GPT4-can-t-ace-MIT-b27e6796ab5a48368127a98216c76864
- https://ai.meta.com/blog/retrieval-augmented-generation-streamlining-the-creation-of-intelligent-natural-language-processing-models/
Philosophy:
- https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
- https://sr.ht/~bctnry/chifir/
- https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill
- https://locusmag.com/2023/01/commentary-cory-doctorow-social-quitting/
- https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/12/21/fear-makes-you-a-worse-programmer/
Combinatory Logic:
Cursed:
- https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html?m=1
- https://web.archive.org/web/20221110031633/https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlight/
Evil:
- WICG/interventions#21 (comment)
- https://www.wired.com/story/strange-life-mysterious-death-of-virtuoso-coder/
Environment:
- https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_jailed_code_release/
- https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/
- https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt
- https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/
Infrastructure:
Economics:
Photography:
- http://blog.iso50.com/33570/jakob-wagners-aerialscapes/
- https://www.circa1983.ca/kluane
- https://r12a.github.io/photos
Business:
- https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-tiny-corp-raised-5M.html
- https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-big-shots-who-lied-on-their-resumes-2014-09-18
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/third-point-llc-letter-to-yahoo-board-of-directors-regarding-discovery-of-discrepancies-in-educational-records-of-ceo-scott-thompson-and-director-patti-hart-150048865.html
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/background-of-lotus-chief-under-fire/
- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5mghcxCabxuaK4WTs/ycombinator-fraud-rates
- https://web.archive.org/web/20061126162350/http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/22/business/aol.php
- https://www.bloomberg.com./news/articles/2019-01-10/google-board-sued-for-hushing-misconduct-claims-against-rubin
Career:
- https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/
- https://archive.ph/6F35b
- https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1041.html
- https://www.teamblind.com/post/7-onsites-7-offers-aAFTykAD
- https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/contracts-you-should-never-sign/
- https://www.developing.dev/p/promotion-via-job-hopping
- https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-million-dollars/
- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/25/getting-things-done-when-youre-only-a-grunt/
- https://9to5mac.com/2013/10/25/apple-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-do-not-hire-arrangements-with-other-companies/
Professional:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961560
- https://ykulbashian.medium.com/when-a-programmer-holds-the-code-hostage-667b65a10a2d
- https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/
- https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/The-entrepreneur-who-lied-to-Steve-Jobs-and-lost-16530172.php
- https://taylor.town/-10x
- https://medium.com/@gokulrajaram/the-one-thing-ceos-should-delay-as-long-as-possible-ea28347714b0
Education:
- https://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-programmer
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Gaines
- https://vimeo.com/20673320
Fiction:
Culture:
- https://kentonsprojects.blogspot.com/2011/12/lan-party-optimized-house.html
- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-led-facebooks-war-to-crush-google-plus
ML:
- https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/ai_kaggle_contest_cheat/
- https://www.kaggle.com/bminixhofer/how-bestpetting-cheated
Parsing:
History:
- https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4188788/the-unlikely-story-of-utf-8-the-text-encoding-of-the-web
- http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history
- http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb
Folklore:
- https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/new-computer-source-code-true.43104/
- https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/amoveo/blob/master/docs/other_blockchains/tessr.md
- https://kev.town/2013/04/30/why-did-why-the-lucky-stiff-quit/
- https://www.globalnerdy.com/2020/08/16/whydays-tenth-anniversary-is-wednesday/
- https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/08/19/happy-whyday/
- https://www.whyday.org/
Compression:
Lemmas:
- http://googlecode.blogspot.com/
- https://developers.googleblog.com/
- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-did-google-close-its-coding-competitions
Corollary: ???