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- Understanding Monotonic Logs and Consensus
Deep dive into distributed systems trade-offs and append-only architecture.
- Understanding Monotonic Logs and Consensus
Deep dive into distributed systems trade-offs and append-only architecture.
- Example Domain
- How to Do Great Work — Paul Graham
PG's long essay distilling how ambitious, original work actually gets made.
- 10 Usability Heuristics for UI Design — NN/g
Nielsen's ten heuristics — the most-cited checklist in interface design.
- Hell Yeah or No — Derek Sivers
A simple, ruthless filter for deciding what to commit to.
- Can I use — Browser Support Tables
The go-to reference for front-end feature support across browsers.
- Distill — Machine Learning, Explained Visually
Landmark interactive explanations of ML concepts.
- Levels.fyi — Tech Compensation
Transparent, crowdsourced compensation data across tech companies.
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I — Joel Spolsky
Why rewriting software from scratch is the single worst strategic mistake.
- Laws of UX
A tidy reference of the psychological principles behind good interface design.
- Getting Things Done in 15 Minutes
The clearest short summary of David Allen's GTD system.
- regex101 — Regex Tester & Debugger
Build and understand regular expressions with live explanation.
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky's sequences on thinking more clearly.
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule — Paul Graham
Why a single meeting can blow a whole afternoon of creative work.
- Butterick's Practical Typography
A beautiful, opinionated book on typography for anyone who writes.
- StaffEng — Stories & Guides for Staff+ Engineers
How engineers reach and operate at the staff+ level.
- roadmap.sh — Developer Roadmaps
Community roadmaps for learning any dev role, step by step.
- Longform — The Best Long Articles
Hand-picked long-form journalism and essays from around the web.
- Salary Negotiation — patio11
The definitive guide to negotiating a tech salary; worth real money to read.
- Refactoring UI
Practical, tactical visual-design advice for developers.
- Our World in Data
Research and data on the world's largest problems, beautifully presented.
- The USE Method — Brendan Gregg
A fast, systematic method for diagnosing performance problems.
- Hacker News
The front page of startup and hacker culture.
- A Complete Guide to useEffect — Dan Abramov
The canonical deep-dive on React's useEffect mental model.
- Mental Models — Farnam Street
A big, well-organized library of thinking tools for better decisions.
- Gwern.net
Long-form, deeply-researched essays on tech, psychology, and statistics.
- The Twelve-Factor App
The classic methodology for building modern, portable web services.
- LessWrong — Rationality
Essays and a community focused on reasoning and decision-making.
- Everything Is Broken — Dan Luu
A clear-eyed tour of how much of the software we rely on is quietly broken.
- Putting Time in Perspective — Wait But Why
A vivid set of timelines that recalibrate your sense of scale.
- The Marginalian — Maria Popova
Years of thoughtful essays on art, science, and how to live.
- The Batch — Andrew Ng
A readable weekly digest of what actually matters in AI.
- First Round Review
In-depth operational advice for startup founders and operators.