This link vault is mainly a reminder for myself, and for when I need to quickly point someone to some link. Feel free to dive into it:
- The only unbreakable law (Amdahl/Brooks/Conway)
- Triage by controversy (how to scale an open source project)
- C isn’t a programming language anymore
- Blade Runner 2049 Baseline test
- Preventing the collapse of civilization
- Rust books:
- The joy of cryptography
- A group is its own worst enemy
- The secret history of Silicon Valley
- High Performance Browser Networking
- The PGP problem
- The documentation system: tutorials, how-tos, references, explanations
- MVP vs Simple-Lovable-Complete
- Gerrit is awesome
- The monk and the cat (similar to the apes and hose of water story)
- Open source is a gift culture
- Basecamp’s how we communicate
- Audiophile falacies
- When does education stop?
- The evolution of trust
- RPM format explained
- Visual git reference
- Write a simple memory allocator
- Please stop top-posting
- Explanation of binary compatibility
- Bit Twiddling Hacks
- Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else.
- UTF-8
- Why I (A/L)GPL
- Epic Debian bugs & mails
- Don’t ask your questions in private
- How to Write a Git Commit Message
- The TAO of backup: achieve backup nirvana
- TED talk: Why privacy matters
- A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
- The Inner Ring (1944)
- Music Theory for musicians and normal people
- The forgotten employee
- The TTY demystified
- The Ken Thompson Hack
- the “Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit” article from Phrack magazine
- Linux graphics stack
- Linux Filesystem Tour
- SSDs on Linux
- newsletters: Ruby, Js, Py, StatusCode, Dart, html5, HNDigest, HackerNewsletter, iOS, Android, Jobety, Vim
- Linux executables infographic
- SELinux explained with dogs and cats + serious video
- An easy explanation of public key cryptography
- omnisecu.com knowledge base
- Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
- openPGP best practices
- Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
- RMS about copyrights at University of Calgary
- The real story behind Wayland and X (and it’s also fun!)
- A succesful git branching model + gitflow extension
- Writing your own toy OS
- Programmer Competency Matrix
- The rise of worse is better