Resources
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This is a collection of links, books, resources of any form that I find useful and want to share. If you think something should be on that list and it isn’t, send an email.
Articles I Enjoyed Reading
If you look at the bottom of a page on this blog, you’ll see a selection of articles from blogs I follow generated by openring. Here is a manual list of blog posts and articles I appreciate and recommend to read.
- The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by Phillip Rogaway
- Making God - The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism by Emily F. Gorcenski
- On Being Useful by Bert Hubert
Education/Courses
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education. A class at MIT teaching you the rarely covered computing ecosystem literacy. Read about their motivation. Also take a look at Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating by Jan Schaumann
- pwn.college. An education platform with CTF style challenges focused on computer security maintained by folks at Arizona State University.
Public Domain Works
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ – books
- https://librivox.org/ – audio books
- http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/de/index.html – radio
- https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html – art, images
- https://archive.org/details/americana – American Libraries
C Programming
- The Development of the C Language. Great paper about how C came to be. From B to NB (New B) to C. How it reuses different concepts from previous languages such as B and BCPL
- Talk by Ilja van Sprundel 50 years of C, the good, the bad and the ugly
- The Book about C: The C Programming Language
Rust
- The Rust Book
- Rust by Example
- The Rustonomicon (Unsafe Rust)
- The Rust Reference
- The Little Book of Rust Macros
- Rust API Guidelines
- Rust Design Patterns
Essential Browser Addons
Essential list of browser addons for surfing the web today.
- uBlock Origin (Firefox, Chrome): Block ads and tracking scripts. It can be “install and forget” or you can dig into the inner workings and have finegrained control.
- ClearURLs (Firefox, Chrome): Remove tracking parameters from URLs automatically. Good for you and good for people you send links. I consider it rude when I get links with tracking parameters in them.
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Dismissed!
Dismissing gives me a quick little lift. “That guy is an idiot!” “That place sucks!” There. Now I feel superior. Now I don’t have to think about it. I don’t even need first-hand experience. I can just echo any complaint I’ve heard. I’ve done this with restaurants…
via Derek Sivers blog November 18, 2024Status update, October 2024
Hi! This month XDC 2024 took place in Montreal. I wasn’t there in-person, but thanks to the organizers I could still ask questions and attend workshops remotely (thanks!). As usual, XDC has been a great reminder of many things I wanted to do but which got bur…
via emersion October 21, 2024Generated by openring