Software Engineering Philosophy & Best Practices

• You should probably read this before diving into any links
• How to build software quickly
• Be a grug developer, actually super useful
• Layers based architecture, found it later but it’s similar to how I think
• Choose boring technology, apparently the video is better
• You ain’t gonna need it (YAGNI)
• The Mythical Man-Month (Important essays summarized by Wikipedia)
• Design Patterns
  • When and how to use design patterns
  • When not to use design patterns
  • Exceptions as an anti-design pattern
• Testing & Debugging
  • Counterchecking frontend UT’s
  • Test Pyramid
  • Testing dependent code tips
  • IntelliJ Debugger Cheatsheet

System Design, Performance & Networking

• How to run major projects
• Why rest is weird and hard to learn
• Layers of a RESTful api
• How async works and was developed
• How the linear sync engine works
• (Book) High performance browser networking
• Latency numbers every programmer should know
• What every programmer should know about memory
• Don’t feel bad if the system fails
• Distributed Systems papers

Languages & Tools

• Git
  • How to write a commit message basics
  • Why commits should look the way they look
  • Oh Shit! I messed something up
  • Learn more git in a fun way
  • Git commands visuals
  • Jujustsu for busy devs (JJ)
  • JJ workflow
• Python & SQL
  • Python Design patterns
  • SQL Indexes for faster lookups
• Javascript / Typescript
  • Best explanation of the event loop imo - video
  • Typescript types interactive tutorial
• CI/CD
  • How to be a good code reviewer
  • How to be a good reviewer again
  • GitHub actions cheat sheet

Frontend & UX

• UX Design Patterns
• Creating great animations
• Useful Pens for Everyday Frontend Development
• Good way to make things look good (GSAP + Nextjs)
• Web animation github gist

• Vertical Spacing
• List of Design materials

AI & Machine Learning

• How to (Vibe Coding)
• Essential AI Papers
• ML visualization
• AI Visualizations

Career, Industry & Startups

• Career Advice
  • How to be successful in a career
  • Industry advice (Don’t call yourself a programmer)
  • Career advice from Cofounder of modal
  • General advice (Patrick Collison)
  • General advice from Google Chrome GOAT
  • Some thoughts on getting good that I find agreeable
  • ACM Life lessons
• Interviews & Salary
  • How to get a RO at an internship
  • Check if the company you are interviewing for is bad
  • Questions I’m asking in interviews (Julia Evans)
  • Posthog questions to ask
  • Being an interviewer
  • Salary negotiation
• Startups & Big Tech
  • Startup vs big company, also insane ML career book
  • How to get your ideas implemented at big companies
  • Peter Thiel’s notes
  • Startup Equity
  • Founder FAQ
• Team & Process
  • Figure out if team is Agile from DoD
  • Team organization checklist (The Joel Test)
  • Why to pair program!!
  • How to contribute to open source
  • Better advice on contributing to complex projects

Communication: Writing & Presenting

• Writing
  • Alternatives to very xxx
  • Writing a good design document
  • Mistakes when explaining something
  • Don’t stress writing
  • Good organizational writing processes
  • Paul Graham, how to write usefully
  • Writing notes, titles, first sentences
  • Writing requirements
  • Writing documentation
  • Essays - Structuring, and what an essay is about, PG - How to start an essay
• Presenting & Asking Questions
  • How to speak well by cracked professor - Video
  • A way to structure talks from Elon Musk
  • How to demo
  • How to ask a good question
  • How to ask questions (jvns)

• Negotiation?
  • From ‘Never cut the difference’

Reading, Blogs & Learning Resources

• Blog Roll
  • Insane frontend blog for learning things. Josh Comeau
  • Julia Evans, very nice and positive and so smart
  • Eric Meyer’s blog, one of the OG Internet people
  • Paul Graham, YC founder
  • Anthony Fu, Nuxt, Vue, etc
  • Antirez, Redis
  • James Hood, Amazon Principle SDE
  • Mark Brooker, Amazon SDE
  • Matt Rickard, Google -> Startup
  • Kalzumeus - Stripe and Startups
  • Thornsten Ball - CompilerBook, Zed, Sourcegraph
  • Making Software (Cool)
• Academic & Papers
  • Non tech paper, various sources, VERY GOOD
  • The daily paper - short, sweet, miscellaneous
  • Videos: Two minute papers
  • How to read a paper #1
  • How to read a paper #2
  • How to read a paper #3
  • How to balance school (Karpathy)
  • PHD tips (Karpathy)
• General Learning & Projects
  • Holy shit this guy knows so much stuff
  • Bloom filter visualization
  • Random project Ideas
  • Things for business dinners