bookmarks on programming

Best Practices, Common Pitfalls, Curious Stuff & Basic Things You Should Know

• Git:
  • Oh Shit, Git!?!
  • Confusing git terminology
  • How to Write a Git Commit Message
  • Organizing multiple Git identities
  • Conditional Git Configuration
  • Conventional Commits
• Shell Scripting
  • Shell Script Best Practices
• Characters:
  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
  • The Great Newline Schism
  • ASCII Table
  • Invisible characters
  • You can't just assume UTF-8
• Internationalization and localization (i18n)
  • PO Files
• Dates:
  • UTC is enough for everyone... right?
  • Storing UTC is not a silver bullet
  • Designing a REST API: Unix time vs ISO-8601
• Numbers:
  • Bit Math
  • Floating Point Math
  • Float Toy
  • Onboarding floating-point
• RegEx:
  • How to Find or Validate an Email Address
  • Possessive Quantifiers
• OS Interoperability:
  • A Guide to POSIX
  • Use the XDG Base Directory Specification!
• Linux:
  • Optimizing Linux for Slow Computers
  • Linux Hardening Guide
• Testing:
  • Modern Best Practices for Testing in Java
• CLI:
  • Command Line Interface Guidelines
• Anti-patterns:
  • Interface Pollution
• Code Formatting:
  • EditorConfig
• HTTP:
  • CORS:
    • Developers don't understand CORS
    • You don't need that CORS request
    • Understanding "same-site" and "same-origin"
  • The perils of the "real" client IP
  • The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
  • Mediocre Engineer’s guide to HTTPS
• REST APIs:
  • OpenAPI Specification
  • Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation
  • Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
  • Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines
  • Standards.REST
  • List of HTTP status codes
  • The HTTP QUERY Method
• Web:
  • To www or not to www - Should you use www or not in your domain?
  • Making Websites Small
• Browser:
  • 67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know
• Containers:
  • Best practices for writing Dockerfiles
  • Attack of the mutant tags!. Or why tag mutability is a real security threat
  • Container security best practices: Comprehensive guide
• Distributed Systems:
  • Don't start with microservices - monoliths are your friend
  • Fallacies of Distributed Systems
  • You Are Not Google
  • Microservices and the Big Ball of Mud
  • Architecture Antipatterns
• Networks:
  • ICMP, Ping, and Traceroute - What I Wish I Was Taught
  • How to hide your IP address
• Memory:
  • What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
  • Memory Management Every Developer Should Know
• Performance:
  • Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
  • Good performance is not just big O
  • Linux Performance
  • Zero-copy
• Data Compression:
  • Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation
• Programming Languages and Compilers:
  • Is every language written in C?
  • Assembly code vs Machine code vs Object code?
  • Introduction to Language Theory
  • Syntax
  • Syntax Design
  • Backus-Naur form
  • Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
  • Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming. Rethinking Where Programming Is Headed
  • The faker's guide to reading (x86) assembly language
  • Compiler Explorer
  • Favorite compiler and interpreter resources
• Laws, Principles and Mantra:
  • Programming Principles
  • The Law of Leaky Abstractions
  • Conway's law
  • Make It Work Make It Right Make It Fast
• What Happens When:
  • What happens when you run 'Hello, world'
  • What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
  • What happens when you load a URL?
  • What happens when a CPU starts
  • What happens when you start a process on Linux?
  • What happens when you update your DNS?
  • What happens when...
  • Behind "Hello World" on Linux
• How Things Work:
  • Putting the “You” in CPU
  • How Browsers Work
  • How do open source solutions for logs work
• Hard Stuff:
  • Hard things in Computer Science
  • How to name things: the hardest problem in programming
  • Files are Hard
  • Text Rendering Hates You
  • Text Editing Hates You Too
• CS Theory:
  • Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science
• Miscellanea:
  • Quantum computing for the very curious
  • What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code
  • Why do arrays start at 0?
  • Do you know how much your computer can do in a second?
  • A few facts about POSIX