A fun history of software's stories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw
YouTube
Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
From ‘Jingle Bells Batman Smells’ to ‘Real Programmers Write in FORTRAN,’ Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) dives into how we share our collective knowledge and how we pass wisdom to future generations. He advocates for writing software with future generations…
How complicated can timeouts be, anyway?
https://vorpus.org/blog/timeouts-and-cancellation-for-humans/
https://vorpus.org/blog/timeouts-and-cancellation-for-humans/
Why it took so long to build the new Wikipedia link preview
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-time-to-build-that-tiny-link-preview-on-wikipedia/
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-time-to-build-that-tiny-link-preview-on-wikipedia/
Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful
https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
An Electron maintainer on why people use it:
https://medium.com/@felixrieseberg/defeating-electron-e1464d075528
https://medium.com/@felixrieseberg/defeating-electron-e1464d075528
Medium
Defeating Electron
Why Developers Choose It – And How You Can Stop Them
An intro to JIT compilation
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-crash-course-in-just-in-time-jit-compilers/
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-crash-course-in-just-in-time-jit-compilers/
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
A crash course in just-in-time (JIT) compilers
This is the second part in a series on WebAssembly and what makes it fast. If you haven’t read the others, we recommend starting from the beginning. JavaScript started out ...
What the four-color theorem of maps can tell us about software
http://alexkudlick.com/blog/what-the-four-color-theorem-can-teach-us-about-writing-software/
http://alexkudlick.com/blog/what-the-four-color-theorem-can-teach-us-about-writing-software/
Alexkudlick
What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software
A visual exploration of what The Four Color Theorem can say about software complexity.
A great collection of Python resources - check out the $50 DigitalOcean credit!
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/python-dev-kit-bundle
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Humble Bundle
Humble Software Bundle: Python Dev Kit
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How to write horrible Java
https://www.e4developer.com/2018/05/13/how-to-write-horrible-java/
https://www.e4developer.com/2018/05/13/how-to-write-horrible-java/
E4developer
How to write horrible Java | E4developer
I feel horrible today. I am sick- my throat hurts, my head is not working as it should. Hence, I decided I will tell you how to write horrible Java code. If you are tired of all these beautiful…