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FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@paragonie-scott
paragonie-scott / crypto-wrong-answers.md
Last active September 25, 2025 14:56
An Open Letter to Developers Everywhere (About Cryptography)

Git Cheat Sheet

Commands

Getting Started

git init

or

@kachayev
kachayev / concurrency-in-go.md
Last active September 23, 2025 16:12
Channels Are Not Enough or Why Pipelining Is Not That Easy
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active October 21, 2025 16:32
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@tsiege
tsiege / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active October 13, 2025 20:38
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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@kmorcinek
kmorcinek / .gitignore
Last active October 7, 2025 20:05
.gitignore for C# projects
# The following command works for downloading when using Git for Windows:
# curl -LOf http://gist.githubusercontent.com/kmorcinek/2710267/raw/.gitignore
#
# Download this file using PowerShell v3 under Windows with the following comand:
# Invoke-WebRequest https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kmorcinek/2710267/raw/ -OutFile .gitignore
#
# or wget:
# wget --no-check-certificate http://gist.githubusercontent.com/kmorcinek/2710267/raw/.gitignore
# User-specific files