Collection of posts and texts that I liked.
There are also other readings on my Instapaper profile. I'm currently migrating everything over to regain control of my data.
- GNU Parallel, Where Have You Been All My Life?
alexplescan.com
- What I Learnt About Making Websites by Reading Two Thousand Web Pages
alexwlchan.net
- Web Typography: Designing Tables to Be Read, Not Looked At
alistapart.com
- Making Crash Bandicoot - GOOL - Part 9
all-things-andy-gavin.com
- Making Version Noir
anhvn.com
- Writing a Package Manager
antonz.org
- I Almost Died and All I Got Was This LameStation: Guest Blog by Brett Weir
antrepreneur.uci.edu
- Challenging Projects Every Programmer Should Try
austinhenley.com
- 100+ Years of Design Manifestos
backspace.com
- Dieselgate, but for Trains - Some Heavyweight Hardware Hacking
badcyber.com
- The Development of the C Language
bell-labs.com
- MacPaint Art From the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
blog.decryption.net.au
- Turning an Old Amazon Kindle Into a Eink Development Platform
blog.lidskialf.net
- Vim Anti-Patterns
blog.sanctum.geek.nz
- Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
boehs.org
- Using HTML Validator Badges Again
btxx.org
- Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
btxx.org
- How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
catb.org
- The Lost Art of Structure Packing
catb.org
- Lisp in Space
corecursive.com
- E.W. Dijkstra Archive: Why Numbering Should Start at Zero (EWD 831)
cs.utexas.edu
- Remembering Dotcom, Pondering LLMs
datagubbe.se
- Copyright and the Demo Scene
datagubbe.se
- RFC 791: Internet Protocol
datatracker.ietf.org
- RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
datatracker.ietf.org
- NPM & Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
davidhaney.io
- What Is Software Design? by Jack W. Reeves
developerdotstar.com
- What Is Software Design: 13 Years Later by Jack W. Reeves
developerdotstar.com
- A Practical Introduction to Container Terminology
developers.redhat.com
- Org Mode - Organize Your Life in Plain Text!
doc.norang.ca
- 13 Animals Made From 13 Circles
dorithegiant.com
- Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale
dougseven.com
- Lisp: Icing or Cake?
dthompson.us
- How I Learned Haskell in Just 15 Years - Duckrabbit Solutions
duckrabbit.tech
- Time Travel Debugging in Spritely Goblins, Previewed Through Terminal Phase
dustycloud.org
- Secure Programming HOWTO - Creating Secure Software
dwheeler.com
- Ancient Computers
ethw.org
- Reader-Friendly Haskell Imports
extrema.is
- Python!
felleisen.org
- A Scheme Primer
files.spritely.institute
- Why I Program in Lisp
funcall.blogspot.com
- What Is Free Software?
gnu.org
- The Rust I Wanted Had No Future
graydon2.dreamwidth.org
- Why Haskell?
gtf.io
- From Development Environments to Continuous Integration
guix.gnu.org
- Xz/Liblzma: Bash-Stage Obfuscation Explained
gynvael.coldwind.pl
- URL
heracl.es
- HTML
heracl.es
- A Short History of the Web
home.cern
- The Traditional Bourne Shell Family
in-ulm.de
- Slow Software
inkandswitch.com
- Local-First Software
inkandswitch.com
- Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste
itsnicethat.com
- This Page Is Designed to Last
jeffhuang.com
- Words
justinjackson.ca
- Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
localmess.github.io
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
maggieappleton.com
- Boomer Developers: 10 Lessons I Learned From Them
medium.com
- Using Nix With Dockerfiles
mitchellh.com
- Democracy, Planning, and Big Data
monthlyreview.org
- Rediscovering the Small Web
neustadt.fr
- The Challenge: Gabriel García Márquez
newyorker.com
- Can Indie Social Media Save Us?
newyorker.com
- The Machine Stops
newyorker.com
- My Father's Stack of Books
newyorker.com
- A Guide to Thesis Writing and a Guide to Life
newyorker.com
- A Father's Final Odyssey
newyorker.com
- Fernando Pessoa's Disappearing Act
newyorker.com
- The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett's Watt
newyorker.com
- Love in Translation
newyorker.com
- Translation: My Multilingual Life
newyorker.com
- Dune and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
newyorker.com
- Autobahn, by Hugo Hamilton
newyorker.com
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
norvig.com
- Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
nymag.com
- Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself
nytimes.com
- Revenge of the Nerds
paulgraham.com
- Envelhecer Não Significa Tirar Fotos Melhores
piaui.folha.uol.com.br
- Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad
pilledtexts.com
- Hokusai's Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)
publicdomainreview.org
- The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)
publicdomainreview.org
- Thoughts on Working Inside a Data Center Suite
rachelbythebay.com
- Tiger Style!
ratfactor.com
- Architecting Containers Part 1: Why Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space Matters
redhat.com
- Architecting Containers Part 2: Why the User Space Matters
redhat.com
- Architecting Containers Part 3: How the User Space Affects Your Application
redhat.com
- Chicken: Define-Foreign-Enum-Type, Typedef, and Pointers
retroj.net
- A CT Scanner Reveals Surprises Inside the 386 Processor's Ceramic Package
righto.com
- The Computer Is a Feeling
robinrendle.com
- Everything I Know About Good System Design
seangoedecke.com
- Why I Vertically Align My Code (And You Should Too!)
shkspr.mobi
- Why Do People Leave Comments on OpenBenches?
shkspr.mobi
- Windows and the AI Platform Shift
stratechery.com
- The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
techtrenches.substack.com
- Terry Pratchett's Name Lives on in 'The Clacks' With Hidden Web Code
theguardian.com
- Big Tech and the Current Challenges Facing the Class Struggle
thetricontinental.org
- Demystify Technology
timrodenbroeker.de
- The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC
tomasp.net
- Anyone Can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub
trufflesecurity.com
- Untitled, by Ali Smith
visualverse.org
- An Introduction to Emacs Lisp - Harryrschwartz
web.archive.org
- A Diminishing Portfolio of Enthusiasms - Johnpweiss
web.archive.org
- Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies - Alex.birsan
web.archive.org
- An Introduction to Lispy Pattern Matching - Ceaude
web.archive.org
- Initial Commit - Stephenramsay
web.archive.org
- Spacewar
wheels.org
- My Father's Death in 7 Gigabytes
wired.com
- Attention, Spoiled Software Engineers: Take a Lesson From Google's Programming Language
wired.com
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