Miscellaneous
Things that don't have much content and don't deserve their own page.
Misc
- https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/10/21/illustrated-guide-to-oauth-and-oidc: An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect
- https://youtu.be/LPqqoOm8y5s?t=3816: Corey Quinn Scale 14x - Docker Must Die
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T2XFSALOaU: Docker in Production: Tales From the Engine Room - Bryan Cantrill (Surge 2015)
- https://vimeo.com/92770954: Sensu @ Yelp part 1
- https://vimeo.com/92838680: Sensu @ Yelp part 2
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4zQc3g1Ts&t=416: Terrible ideas in Git
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9koJOCL8Bms: The Well Tempered API - Why can we play 400 year old music but our software only lasts a few months or years?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGrm73dXow: Using Swagger to tame HTTP/JSON interfaces
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/working-theory-monitoring: Working Theory of Monitoring
- https://youtu.be/YFDwdRVTg4g?t=33m11s: Yelp's Theory of PaaSes talk from Box SRE Hour
- https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source-global-overlay-network-from-slack/: Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack
- https://mtlynch.io/code-review-love: How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You
- https://sonic-pi.net: Sonic Pi: The "code-based music creation and performance tool" that DJ Dave used in the opening set of Github Universe 2020.
- https://emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-sequence: Emojipedia Lists all emoji's including ZWJ composed emoji's, EG: with different skin tone and hair.
- http://www.sizecoding.org: SizeCoding.org is a wiki dedicated to the art of creating very tiny programs for most popular types of CPUs
- http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html: Optical Illusions: Things don't always make sense. It's good to be open to the possibility that you are wrong, even when you are certain you are right.
- https://nautil.us/blog/12-mind_bending-perceptual-illusions: 12 Mind-Bending Perceptual Illusions. Some of these are insane. #2 shouts so many things about how flawed the human mind is and how important science is.
- https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo: The Scientific Method - Critical and Creative Thinking (Debunking Pseudoscience) lots of great reading references in the bottom section
- http://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html) "The Utilization Saturation and Errors (USE: USE method Method is a methodology for analyzing the performance of any system."
- https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.html: Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
- http://sl4.org/crocker.html: Crocker's Rules: "other people are allowed to optimize their messages for information, not for being nice to you."
- https://mkhan45.github.io/CalcuLaTeX-Web: CalcuLaTex: Online calculator
- https://slack.engineering/a-faster-smarter-quick-switcher: A faster, smarter Quick Switcher: how slack implemented frecency in their cmd-k interface
- https://endoflife.date: Easy reference for when software will go EOL
- https://serr.disabilityrightsca.org: "The Federal and California special education laws give eligible students with disabilities the right to receive a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environmentThis manual explains how to become eligible for special education, how to request and advocate for special education services, and what to do if you disagree with school districts."
- https://runyourown.social: How to run a small social network site for your friends
- https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com: "300 essays about design, culture, and Jim Watson."
- http://blog.timhutt.co.uk/fast-inverse-square-root: Interactive fast inverse-square analysis.
- https://wiki.c2.com/?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID: "In software engineering, SOLID is a mnemonic acronym for five design principles intended to make software designs more understandable, flexible, and maintainable."
- https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine: Interactive animated explanation of an internal combustion engine and its components.
- https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch: Interactive animated explanation of mechanical watch design(This blog is full of great interactive content.)
- https://hbr.org/2022/05/managers-what-are-you-doing-about-change-exhaustion
- https://goodresearch.dev: The Good Research Code Handbook
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
- https://mrogalski.eu/ansi-art
- https://tailscale.com/kb/1114/pi-hole: How to route DNS to your self-hosted pi-hole using Tailscale VPN
- https://minitokyo3d.com
- https://maggieappleton.com/folk-interfaces
- https://slsa.dev: a security framework, a check-list of standards and controls to prevent tampering, improve integrity, and secure packages and infrastructure in your projects, businesses or enterprises.
- https://brutalist-web.design
- https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence
- https://www.jefftk.com/p/accidentally-load-bearing: further thoughts about chesterton's fence.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_source_of_truth
- https://lateblt.tripod.com/bit68.txt: What happens when a CPU starts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
- https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-glossary-of-human-computer-interaction/cognitive-artifacts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
- https://matt.blwt.io/post/corporate-legibility-for-engineers
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
- https://prog21.dadgum.com/80.html: Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers
- https://exrx.net: Exercise and fitness website
- https://cohost.org/mcc/post/178201-the-baseline-scene: Deep dive on the baseline scene in Blade Runner 2049
- https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/do-open-source-licences-cover-the-ship-of-theseus
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem: "the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning."
- https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter: "a design guideline for developing software"
- https://skunkledger.substack.com/p/escaping-high-school
- https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Hardware/Cyberdecks.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell_effect: "when a medical professional labels a patient's accurate perception of real events as delusional, resulting in misdiagnosis."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment: "a system should behave in a way that most users will expect it to behave"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact: "A Ulysses pact or Ulysses contract is a freely made decision that is designed and intended to bind oneself in the future."
- https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4: DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow
- https://dgl.cx/2023/09/ansi-terminal-security
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
- https://supabase.com/blog/why-supabase-remote: Reasoning behind a fully remote workforce, and how that culture works.
- https://catern.com/services.html: "Write libraries instead of services, where possible"
- https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/housing-documentation: Writing Documentation for Your House
- https://filiph.net/text/we-need-technology-that-is-less-immersive,-not-more.html
- https://norvig.com/21-days.html: "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years"
- https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/the-size-of-your-backlog-is-inversely
- https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html
- https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2024/02/12/fractal.html: "Neural network training makes beautiful fractals"
- https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/software-development/programming-naming-conventions-explained: Lots of examples of different variable naming schemes, what they are called, and where they are used.
- https://effectiviology.com/shirky-principle: "Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution"
- https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming
- https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/: "Visualizing Algorithms"
- https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-eu-and-tech/
- https://jacobian.org/2021/jun/8/incorrect-estimates: "So you messed up. Now what? This is the final part of a series on estimating software project timelines."
- https://the-simulation-strategists.beehiiv.com/p/being-stuck: "The Illusion of Being Stuck"
- https://calculusmadeeasy.org
- https://vorakl.com/articles/posix: "A few facts about POSIX"
- https://cleankotlin.nl/blog/double-negations: "Double negatives should not not be avoided"
- https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/habits-of-effective-remote-teams
- https://www.mensurdurakovic.com/hard-to-swallow-truths-they-wont-tell-you-about-software-engineer-job
- https://www.brightball.com/articles/story-points-are-pointless-measure-queues
- https://www.bitsandbeing.com/p/leaving-stripe-parting-thoughts
- https://gwern.net/complement
- https://www.raptitude.com/2024/08/do-quests-not-goals
- https://photonlines.substack.com/p/visual-data-structures-cheat-sheet
- https://jdstillwater.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-put-toaster-in-dishwasher.html
- https://cognitect.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-architecture-decisions: Document architectural decisions using Alexandrian Pattern language text snippets.
- https://clig.dev: "Command Line Interface Guidelines"
- https://www.atlassian.com/devops/frameworks/dora-metrics: "DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) provides a standard set of DevOps metrics used for evaluating process performance and maturity."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development: "Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing"
- https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/career: "Where will you be when you realise that this is where you've always wanted to be?"
- https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted: "But don’t get distracted by all this; the software was intended to kill people."
- https://grep.app: Search Github with better syntax, like regular expressions.
- https://minds.md/zakirullin/cognitive: "We should reduce any cognitive load above and beyond what is intrinsic to the work we do."
- https://paulgraham.com/writes.html: The dangers to society and intellect of having LLMs write for us.
- https://herbertlui.net/dont-think-to-write-write-to-think
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838700: Discussion about an article about being laid off https://mertbulan.com/2025/01/26/once-you-are-laid-off-you-will-never-be-the-same-again
- https://opensource.com/article/17/5/30-best-practices-software-development-and-testing
- https://mimetype.io
- https://httpstatuses.io
- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/02/08/ldap: "Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat"
- https://allenpike.com/2023/do-something-so-we-can-change-it: "Sometimes teams get stuck on a decision. ... Most often, though, we simply need to do something for now, so we can keep moving. So we can learn. So we can change it."
- https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix: RACI: Enumerate who is or needs to be Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, or Informed.
- https://www.talentstuff.com/blog/on-loyalty-to-your-employer
- https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/a-process-to-do-safe-changes-in-a-complex-codebase: "You’ve inherited a 300k lines of spaghetti code. What do you do now?"
- https://www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-death-of-daydreaming
- https://endler.dev/2025/best-programmers
- https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies: Long article about file organization. Lots of good information about different approaches.
- https://techlore.tech/resources: Recommendations for privacy focused options for a variety of tech needs.
- https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination: Gamifying productivity with sticky notes and a receipt printer.
- https://grugbrain.dev: Satirical look at engineering best practices.
Kids
- https://hourofcode.com/us/learn: ~1hr coding activities
- https://scratch.mit.edu: "Scratch is the world's largest free coding community for kids."
- https://www.redblobgames.com: "interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms, using motivating examples from computer games."
Finance
- https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation
- https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation
- https://www.benkuhn.net/optopt: "Startup options are much better than they look"