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
Status 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, 2024Wealth = Have ÷ Need
Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder. Wealth, feeling like you have plenty, is an equation. Wealth = Have ÷ Need If you have nothing, then focus on having some. Once you have some, the easiest way to increase your wealth is to decrease …
via Derek Sivers blog September 27, 2024Installing NetBSD on Linode
Instructions on how to install NetBSD on a Linode instance. All steps are performed via the command-line and serial console.
via Signs of Triviality September 14, 2024Generated by openring