Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “programming”

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD 1036)

cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

kamranahmedse/design-patterns-for-humans: Design Patterns for Humans™ - An ultra-simplified explanation

github.com/kamranahmedse/design-patterns-for-humans

design-patterns-for-humans - Design Patterns for Humans™ - An ultra-simplified explanation

the morning paper | an interesting/influential/important paper from the world of CS every weekday morning, as selected by Adrian Colyer

blog.acolyer.org/

kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood: Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.

github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest

qntm.org/gay

And then they hit "submit" and the information is filed away electronically in databases which simply keel over or belch integrity errors when presented with something so profound as a man and another man who love each other enough to want to file joint tax returns.

Zines - Julia Evans

jvns.ca/zines/

Front-end Developer Handbook 2017 · GitBook

gitbook.com/book/frontendmasters/front-end-handbook-2017/details

front-end-handbook-2017: The resources and tools for learning about the practice of front-end development in 2017. Written by Cody Lindley sponsored by

SFPC | School for Poetic Computation

sfpc.io/

On Getting Old(er) in Tech

corgibytes.com/blog/2016/12/06/getting-old-er-in-tech/

Browsix: Unix in the browser tab

browsix.org/

Talks that changed the way I think about programming – Oliver Powell

opowell.com/post/talks-that-changed-the-way-i-think-about-programming/

Please Learn to Write – Rands in Repose

randsinrepose.com/archives/please-learn-to-write/

I fret about whether I’ll be able to hold your attention, which is precisely the wrong thing to worry about. What I should be worried about is, “Have I written something worthy of your attention?”

What are the lesser known but useful data structures? - Stack Overflow

stackoverflow.com/questions/500607/what-are-the-lesser-known-but-useful-data-structures

Software Folklore ― Andreas Zwinkau

beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/

Let’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad

eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/

Taking PHP Seriously

slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329

Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have…