This is a list of interesting blog posts, talks and such things that I found over the years.
Some of them may teach you something relevant, some may just further your general understanding of tech. From personal experience they can lead you down the rabbit hole really fast, enjoy with care!
Talks
- Why web tech is like this by Steve Sanderson
- Learning from Disaster by Ian Hughes
- Failure is Always an Option by Dylan Beattie
- Architecture: The Stuff That’s Hard to Change by Dylan Beattie
- Computational Creativity by Dylan Beattie
- How I built Rockstar: Parsing esoteric languages with .NET by Dylan Beattie
- Fractals, Factories and Fast Food by Dylan Beattie
- The cost of code by Dylan Beattie
- The Art of Code by Dylan Beattie
- The Web That Never Was by Dylan Beattie
- The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords by Tom Scott
- The Basics (Playlist) by Tom Scott
Blog posts
- How to make static site publishing easier by Luke Harris
- Django Views - The Right Way by Luke Plant
- The yaml document from hell by Ruud van Asseldonk
- Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster by Adam Drake
- A failed attempt at monetizing technical writing by Luc van Donkersgoed
- SRE: A Day In The Life, Over The Years by By Anthony Sandoval of Reddit Engineering
- You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage by Jayme Howard of Reddit Engineering
- Kubernetes Deployment Antipatterns – part 1 by Kostis Kapelonis
- How to Model Your Gitops Environments and Promote Releases between Them by Kostis Kapelonis
- Programming Sucks by Peter Welch
- Stack Overflow: How We Do App Caching - 2019 Edition by Nick Craver
Guides & Books
- Django Views - The Right Way by Luke Plant
Other things
- Development Standards by Luke Plant
- The Password Game by Neal Agarwal
- The case of the 500-mile email by Trey Harris