Software engineering bookmarks

General

• The only algorithm for hard problems – physical solution to NP-hard problems
• Notation as a Tool of Thought – learn some APL
• A map of GitHub – GitHub discovery tool
• Zed editor – an interesting new IDE from authors of Atom
• Network protocols – simple explained
• Green vs. Brown programming languages – unpopular languages are usually those used in legacy codebases hard to maintain, popular languages are used for new projects
• Database fundamentals – a great write-up on databases
• Store whole state in URL
• Missing semester – skill you will use on a daily basis but are rarely taught
• Donkey code – the profound impact the language we use has on code
• Reading manpages like a pro
• Programmer Competency Matrix
• Most influential books – computer science books
• Professional programming links – a collection of resources
• Git from bottom up – excellent explanation of Git internals

Python

• What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 how a simple import can modify the Python interpreter
• Peter Norvig’s pytudes
• Advanced Python Mastery
• Swap Python integers – how Python low integers are implemented
• WTF Python – less known facts about Python
• Awesome Python Typing – resources for typing

Linux, Unix

• Lobotomizing GNOME – simplifying the bloated window manager
• Slack in 5 lines of Bash – dead simple IM system
• How a program is run

Machine learning

• RLHF — reinforcement learning from human feedback
• AI Canon – a list of articles and resources
• Cargo Cult AI – current AI can’t make up novel things, critics of the hype
• What is ChatGPT doind – Wolfram’s take on LLMs
• Stable Audio – latent diffusion for audio
• A multimodal foundation model for music – recommended paper by Oswald B.
• llama2.c – study Karpathy’s code in C

Gadgets, IoT, hardware, tools, low-level

• Chording keyboard
• Delta Chat – chatting via email
• Typograms – a library for nice diagrams from ASCII
• TMSU – a neat (virtual file-)system for tagging files
• Phoenix – web framework (server-rendered) in Elixir
• kanata advanced customization of keyboard
• Assembly 64 – assembly language and systems programming course

Vim

• Configure ctags for Python.
• How to grok at vim a legendary StackOverflow answer
• Seven habits of effective text editing – Bram’s tips
• Vim cheatsheet
• Vim bindings everywhere – apps where you can use Vim keybindings
• Light color scheme
• At least one Vim trick you might not know – a few nice tricks
• Learn Vim

NLP

• refinery: loop for annotating and training on NLP data
• NLP demystifed
• Vale – a linter for prose

Whitepapers

• Ethereum