Reading List

This is a list of blogs, websites, and other random junk that I have enjoyed reading or intend to eventually read. Where possible, I have attempted to respect the author’s title of the site.

This list is not ordered in any kind of way.

The opinions contained in these sites do not necessarily reflect my own.

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Stuff I read regularly now

(Or: things I enjoy now as a curious, non-conforming luddite with strong principles.)

• Pluralistic
• Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
• Ludicity
• deadSimpleTech
• rachelbythebay
• Drew DeVault's blog
• Git Rev News
• Julia Evans
• Citation Needed
• Steve Klabnik's Blog
• Drew Devault's LinkHut
• Paperless
• cosmic-cow
• Sidhion
• Lojic Technologies Blog
• unixdigest.com
• Communications of the ACM
• ralfj.de

Stuff I read or intended to read as a (naïve?) student with copious free time

(Or: what I think helped me gain knowledge as a student & junior engineer.)

• Fabulous Adventures in Code
• Joel on Software
• Bastard Operator from Hell (BOFH)
• The Angry GM
• dmerej's Blog
• Code Without Rules
• Linus Akesson
• Blog de Lionel Drico
• Coding Horror
• Brave New Geek
• Destroy All Software
• Crocker's Rules
• An interesting approach to résumés
• Dork Tower
• Trevor Jim
• Extra Cheese (dead)
• t+1
• Arabesque
• Select Start SQL
• Darts, Dice, and Coins
• Matt Might
• Crafting Interpreters
• Wargames
• Learn You a Haskell
• Write You a Haskell
• Beautiful Racket
• Practical Typography
• RubyCon:Adventures in Functional Programming
• Programming with Nothing
• Unix Haters
• Map, map, and flatMap in Scala
• Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
• Steve Losh
• Vimcasts
• Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
• Bash Strict Mode
• Git Book
• THE Note about Git Commit Messages
• Object Calisthenics
• Things of Interest
• Robert Melton
• Bike Shed
• Vim Advent Calendar
• Epigrams in Programming
• Advent of Code
• The Wizard Book
• User Error
• The Ultimate Final Exam
• Open Sourcing a Python Project
• Internal Pointers
• Mathematical Writing
• Eloquent Javascript
• Ruby Koans
• Crafting Interpreters
• Auto-tools-tutorial
• Richard Gabriel's Dreamsongs
• How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
• French-English-and-back Technical Dictionary
• What I Wish I Knew Learning Haskell
• ESR's Stuff
• Null Program
• Senior Engineering Checklist
• 0b10: Two-Bit History
• Always Measure One Level Deeper
• Common causes for seg faults
• My favorite git commit
• Masterpiece Collection
• The Mysterious 500-mile emails
• Books for Software Engineers
• Unix Toolbox (somewhat dated)
• Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
• A Personal History of Modeless Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste
• Programming with Categories
• Category Theory for Programmers
• Lecture notes on Types and Programming Languages
• Parametric Press
• Bel
• Haskell wiki
• Operator Etymology
• Cunningham & Cunningham
• Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs
• argumatronic
• Lambda the Ultimate
• Game Programming Patterns
• Haoyi's Programming Blog
• So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!
• Hillel Wayne's blog (Formal methods)
• Histogram: You have to know the past to understand the present
• Essays on programing I think about a lot
• Typing is hard
• Building Lisps
• Let over Lambda
• How to Design Programs
• Programming and Programming Languages
• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
• Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
• History of Programming Languages
• Lecture Notes on the Lambda Calculus
• Language-oriented Programming in Racket (A Cultural Anthropology)
• Logic and Computation Intertwined
• The Power of Prolog
• Software Design for Flexibility
• Essentials of Programming Languages
• This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer
• Myths about /dev/urandom
• Functional Programming OCaml (2019)
• Functional Programming OCaml (2021)
• Indiana University Compilers Course
• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
• An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction
• Bibliography of Scheme research (readscheme.org and beyond)
• Lisp in Small Pieces
• A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing
• Pyret
• Monads, Arrows, and Idioms
• Functional Pearls
• Rust for the Polyglot Programmer
• A New Medium for Communicating Research on Programming Languages
• Jamie Brandon
• The Traditional Vi
• Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming
• Math 4120 (Modern Algebra) Fall 2021
• Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn't about getting a job
• Programming Language Foundations in Agda
• The Codeless Code
• Basic Things for Software Projects
• Accidentally Turing-Complete
• Incompleteness Ex Machina
• Postmortem lessons