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
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, April 2024
Hi! The X.Org Foundation results are in, and I’m now officially part of the Board of Directors. I hope I can be of use to the community on more organizational issues! Speaking of which, I’ve spent quite a bit of time dealing with Code of Conduct matters latel…
via emersion April 16, 2024Email DNS Records Cheatsheet
A quick summary of the SMTP related DNS records together with brief examples.
via Signs of Triviality April 12, 2024the best book ever written
I’ve asked my favorite musicians if, when they’re done writing a new song, they feel it’s the best song ever. All of them said yes. I’ve asked my favorite authors if, when they’re done writing a new book, they feel it was the best book ever. All of them said…
via Derek Sivers blog April 12, 2024Generated by openring