Software Development

Welcome to the Development side of Software An ongoing curated list of frameworks, books, articles, talks, screencasts, recordings, libraries, learning tutorials and resources about software development.

Table of Contents

• Platforms
• Programming Languages
• Front-End Development
• Back-End Development
• Computer Science
• Big Data
• Theory
• Books
• Editors
• Gaming
• Development Environment
• Entertainment
• Databases
• Media
• Learn
• Security
• Content Management Systems
• Hardware
• Business
• Work
• Networking
• Decentralized Systems
• Higher Education
• Events
• Testing
• Articles
• Talks
• Miscellaneous
• Related

Platforms

• Node.js - Async non-blocking event-driven JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
  • Cross-Platform - Writing cross-platform code on Node.js.
• Frontend Development
• iOS - Mobile operating system for Apple phones and tablets.
• Android - Mobile operating system developed by Google.
• IoT & Hybrid Apps
• Electron - Cross-platform native desktop apps using JavaScript/HTML/CSS.
• Cordova - JavaScript API for hybrid apps.
• React Native - JavaScript framework for writing natively rendering mobile apps for iOS and Android.
• Xamarin - Mobile app development IDE, testing, and distribution.
• Linux
  • Containers
  • eBPF - Virtual machine that allows you to write more efficient and powerful tracing and monitoring for Linux systems.
  • Arch-based Projects - Linux distributions and projects based on Arch Linux.
  • AppImage - Package apps in a single file that works on various mainstream Linux distributions.
• macOS - Operating system for Apple's Mac computers.
  • Screensavers
  • Apps
  • Open Source Apps
• watchOS - Operating system for the Apple Watch.
• JVM
• Salesforce
• Amazon Web Services
• Windows
• IPFS - P2P hypermedia protocol.
• Fuse - Mobile development tools.
• Heroku - Cloud platform as a service.
• Raspberry Pi - Credit card-sized computer aimed at teaching kids programming, but capable of a lot more.
• Qt - Cross-platform GUI app framework.
• WebExtensions - Cross-browser extension system.
• RubyMotion - Write cross-platform native apps for iOS, Android, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS in Ruby.
• Smart TV - Create apps for different TV platforms.
• GNOME - Simple and distraction-free desktop environment for Linux.
• KDE - A free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience.
• .NET
  • Core
  • Roslyn - Open-source compilers and code analysis APIs for C# and VB.NET languages.
• Amazon Alexa - Virtual home assistant.
• DigitalOcean - Cloud computing platform designed for developers.
• Flutter - Google's mobile SDK for building native iOS and Android apps from a single codebase written in Dart.
• Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
• IBM Cloud - Cloud platform for developers and companies.
• Firebase - App development platform built on Google Cloud Platform.
• Robot Operating System 2.0 - Set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot apps.
• Adafruit IO - Visualize and store data from any device.
• Cloudflare - CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, and security for your site.
• Actions on Google - Developer platform for Google Assistant.
• ESP - Low-cost microcontrollers with WiFi and broad IoT applications.
• Deno - A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.
• DOS - Operating system for x86-based personal computers that was popular during the 1980s and early 1990s.
• Nix - Package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
• Integration - Linking together different IT systems (components) to functionally cooperate as a whole.

Programming Languages

• JavaScript
  • Promises
  • Standard Style - Style guide and linter.
  • Must Watch Talks
  • Tips
  • Network Layer
  • Micro npm Packages
  • Mad Science npm Packages - Impossible sounding projects that exist.
  • Maintenance Modules - For npm packages.
  • npm - Package manager.
  • AVA - Test runner.
  • ESLint - Linter.
  • Functional Programming
  • Observables
  • npm scripts - Task runner.
  • 30 Seconds of Code - Code snippets you can understand in 30 seconds.
  • Ponyfills - Like polyfills but without overriding native APIs.
• Swift - Apple's compiled programming language that is secure, modern, programmer-friendly, and fast.
  • Education
  • Playgrounds
• Python - General-purpose programming language designed for readability.
  • Asyncio - Asynchronous I/O in Python 3.
  • Scientific Audio - Scientific research in audio/music.
  • CircuitPython - A version of Python for microcontrollers.
  • Data Science - Data analysis and machine learning.
  • Typing - Optional static typing for Python.
  • MicroPython - A lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers.
• Rust
• Haskell
• PureScript
• Go
• Scala
  • Scala Native - Optimizing ahead-of-time compiler for Scala based on LLVM.
• Ruby
• Clojure
• ClojureScript
• Elixir
• Elm
• Erlang
• Julia - High-level dynamic programming language designed to address the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science.
• Lua
• C
• C/C++ - General-purpose language with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained software.
• R - Functional programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
  • Learning
• D
• Common Lisp - Powerful dynamic multiparadigm language that facilitates iterative and interactive development.
  • Learning
• Perl
• Groovy
• Dart
• Java - Popular secure object-oriented language designed for flexibility to "write once, run anywhere".
  • RxJava
• Kotlin
• OCaml
• ColdFusion
• Fortran
• PHP - Server-side scripting language.
  • Composer - Package manager.
• Pascal
• AutoHotkey
• AutoIt
• Crystal
• Frege - Haskell for the JVM.
• CMake - Build, test, and package software.
• ActionScript 3 - Object-oriented language targeting Adobe AIR.
• Eta - Functional programming language for the JVM.
• Idris - General purpose pure functional programming language with dependent types influenced by Haskell and ML.
• Ada/SPARK - Modern programming language designed for large, long-lived apps where reliability and efficiency are essential.
• Q# - Domain-specific programming language used for expressing quantum algorithms.
• Imba - Programming language inspired by Ruby and Python and compiles to performant JavaScript.
• Vala - Programming language designed to take full advantage of the GLib and GNOME ecosystems, while preserving the speed of C code.
• Coq - Formal language and environment for programming and specification which facilitates interactive development of machine-checked proofs.
• V - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software.

Front-End Development

• ES6 Tools
• Web Performance Optimization
• Web Tools
• CSS - Style sheet language that specifies how HTML elements are displayed on screen.
  • Critical-Path Tools
  • Scalability
  • Must-Watch Talks
  • Protips
  • Frameworks
• React - App framework.
  • Relay - Framework for building data-driven React apps.
  • React Hooks - A new feature that lets you use state and other React features without writing a class.
• Web Components
• Polymer - JavaScript library to develop Web Components.
• Angular - App framework.
• Backbone - App framework.
• HTML5 - Markup language used for websites & web apps.
• SVG - XML-based vector image format.
• Canvas
• KnockoutJS - JavaScript library.
• Dojo Toolkit - JavaScript toolkit.
• Inspiration
• Ember - App framework.
• Android UI
• iOS UI
• Meteor
• BEM
• Flexbox
• Web Typography
• Web Accessibility
• Material Design
• D3 - Library for producing dynamic, interactive data visualizations.
• Emails
• jQuery - Easy to use JavaScript library for DOM manipulation.
  • Tips
• Web Audio
• Offline-First
• Static Website Services
• Cycle.js - Functional and reactive JavaScript framework.
• Text Editing
• Motion UI Design
• Vue.js - App framework.
• Marionette.js - App framework.
• Aurelia - App framework.
• Charting
• Ionic Framework 2
• Chrome DevTools
• PostCSS - CSS tool.
• Draft.js - Rich text editor framework for React.
• Service Workers
• Progressive Web Apps
• choo - App framework.
• Redux - State container for JavaScript apps.
• Browserify - Module bundler.
• Sass - CSS preprocessor.
• Ant Design - Enterprise-class UI design language.
• Less - CSS preprocessor.
• WebGL - JavaScript API for rendering 3D graphics.
• Preact - App framework.
• Progressive Enhancement
• Next.js - Framework for server-rendered React apps.
• lit-html - HTML templating library for JavaScript.
• JAMstack - Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt markup.
• WordPress-Gatsby - Web development technology stack with WordPress as a back end and Gatsby as a front end.
• Mobile Web Development - Creating a great mobile web experience.
• Storybook - Development environment for UI components.
• Blazor - .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly.
• PageSpeed Metrics - Metrics to help understand page speed and user experience.
• Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
• Seed - Rust framework for creating web apps running in WebAssembly.
• Web Performance Budget - Techniques to ensure certain performance metrics for a website.
• Web Animation - Animations in the browser with JavaScript, CSS, SVG, etc.
• Yew - Rust framework inspired by Elm and React for creating multi-threaded frontend web apps with WebAssembly.
• Material-UI - Material Design React components for faster and easier web development.
• Building Blocks for Web Apps - Standalone features to be integrated into web apps.
• Svelte - App framework.
• Design systems - Collection of reusable components, guided by rules that ensure consistency and speed.
• Inertia.js - Make single-page apps without building an API.
• MDBootstrap - Templates, layouts, components, and widgets to rapidly build websites.

Back-End Development

• Flask - Python framework.
• Docker
• Vagrant - Automation virtual machine environment.
• Pyramid - Python framework.
• Play1 Framework
• CakePHP - PHP framework.
• Symfony - PHP framework.
  • Education
• Laravel - PHP framework.
  • Education
  • TALL Stack - Full-stack development solution featuring libraries built by the Laravel community.
• Rails - Web app framework for Ruby.
  • Gems - Packages.
• Phalcon - PHP framework.
• Useful .htaccess Snippets
• nginx - Web server.
• Dropwizard - Java framework.
• Kubernetes - Open-source platform that automates Linux container operations.
• Lumen - PHP micro-framework.
• Serverless Framework - Serverless computing and serverless architectures.
• Apache Wicket - Java web app framework.
• Vert.x - Toolkit for building reactive apps on the JVM.
• Terraform - Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure.
• Vapor - Server-side development in Swift.
• Dash - Python web app framework.
• FastAPI - Python web app framework.
• CDK - Open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code.
• IAM - User accounts, authentication and authorization.

Computer Science

• University Courses
• Data Science
  • Tutorials
• Machine Learning
  • Tutorials
  • ML with Ruby - Learning, implementing, and applying Machine Learning using Ruby.
  • Core ML Models - Models for Apple's machine learning framework.
  • H2O - Open source distributed machine learning platform written in Java with APIs in R, Python, and Scala.
  • Software Engineering for Machine Learning - From experiment to production-level machine learning.
  • AI in Finance - Solving problems in finance with machine learning.
  • JAX - Automatic differentiation and XLA compilation brought together for high-performance machine learning research.
  • XAI - Providing insight, explanations, and interpretability to machine learning methods.
• Speech and Natural Language Processing
  • Spanish
  • NLP with Ruby
  • Question Answering - The science of asking and answering in natural language with a machine.
  • Natural Language Generation - Generation of text used in data to text, conversational agents, and narrative generation applications.
• Linguistics
• Cryptography
  • Papers - Theory basics for using cryptography by non-cryptographers.
• Computer Vision
• Deep Learning - Neural networks.
  • TensorFlow - Library for machine intelligence.
  • TensorFlow.js - WebGL-accelerated machine learning JavaScript library for training and deploying models.
  • TensorFlow Lite - Framework that optimizes TensorFlow models for on-device machine learning.
  • Papers - The most cited deep learning papers.
  • Education
• Deep Vision
• Open Source Society University
• Functional Programming
• Empirical Software Engineering - Evidence-based research on software systems.
• Static Analysis & Code Quality
• Information Retrieval - Learn to develop your own search engine.
• Quantum Computing - Computing which utilizes quantum mechanics and qubits on quantum computers.
• Theoretical Computer Science - The interplay of computer science and pure mathematics, distinguished by its emphasis on mathematical rigour and technique.

Big Data

• Big Data
• Public Datasets
• Hadoop - Framework for distributed storage and processing of very large data sets.
• Data Engineering
• Streaming
• Apache Spark - Unified engine for large-scale data processing.
• Qlik - Business intelligence platform for data visualization, analytics, and reporting apps.
• Splunk - Platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing structured and unstructured machine-generated big data in real-time.

Theory

• Papers We Love
• Talks
• Algorithms
  • Education - Learning and practicing.
• Algorithm Visualizations
• Artificial Intelligence
• Search Engine Optimization
• Competitive Programming
• Math
• Recursion Schemes - Traversing nested data structures.

Books

• Free Programming Books
• Go Books
• R Books
• Mind Expanding Books
• Book Authoring
• Elixir Books

Editors

• Sublime Text
• Vim
• Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
• Emacs
• Atom - Open-source and hackable text editor.
• Visual Studio Code - Cross-platform open-source text editor.

Gaming

• Game Development
• Game Talks
• Godot - Game engine.
• Open Source Games
• Unity - Game engine.
• Chess
• LÖVE - Game engine.
• PICO-8 - Fantasy console.
• Game Boy Development
• Construct 2 - Game engine.
• Gideros - Game engine.
• Minecraft - Sandbox video game.
• Game Datasets - Materials and datasets for Artificial Intelligence in games.
• Haxe Game Development - A high-level strongly typed programming language used to produce cross-platform native code.
• libGDX - Java game framework.
• PlayCanvas - Game engine.
• Game Remakes - Actively maintained open-source game remakes.
• Flame - Game engine for Flutter.
• Discord Communities - Chat with friends and communities.
• CHIP-8 - Virtual computer game machine from the 70s.
• Games of Coding - Learn a programming language by making games.

Development Environment

• Quick Look Plugins - For macOS.
• Dev Env
• Dotfiles
• Shell
• Fish - User-friendly shell.
• Command-Line Apps
• ZSH Plugins
• GitHub - Hosting service for Git repositories.
  • Browser Extensions
  • Cheat Sheet
  • Pinned Gists - Dynamic pinned gists for your GitHub profile.
• Git Cheat Sheet & Git Flow
• Git Tips
• Git Add-ons - Enhance the git CLI.
• Git Hooks - Scripts for automating tasks during git workflows.
• SSH
• FOSS for Developers
• Hyper - Cross-platform terminal app built on web technologies.
• PowerShell - Cross-platform object-oriented shell.
• Alfred Workflows - Productivity app for macOS.
• Terminals Are Sexy
• GitHub Actions - Create tasks to automate your workflow and share them with others on GitHub.

Entertainment

• Science Fiction - Scifi.
• Fantasy
• Podcasts
• Email Newsletters
• IT Quotes

Databases

• Database
• MySQL
• SQLAlchemy
• InfluxDB
• Neo4j
• MongoDB - NoSQL database.
• RethinkDB
• TinkerPop - Graph computing framework.
• PostgreSQL - Object-relational database.
• CouchDB - Document-oriented NoSQL database.
• HBase - Distributed, scalable, big data store.
• NoSQL Guides - Help on using non-relational, distributed, open-source, and horizontally scalable databases.
• Contexture - Abstracts queries/filters and results/aggregations from different backing data stores like ElasticSearch and MongoDB.
• Database Tools - Everything that makes working with databases easier.
• TypeDB - Logical database to organize large and complex networks of data as one body of knowledge.
• Cassandra - Open-source, distributed, wide column store, NoSQL database management system.

Media

• Creative Commons Media
• Fonts
• Codeface - Text editor fonts.
• Stock Resources
• GIF - Image format known for animated images.
• Music
• Open Source Documents
• Audio Visualization
• Broadcasting
• Pixel Art - Pixel-level digital art.
• FFmpeg - Cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
• Icons - Downloadable SVG/PNG/font icon projects.
• Audiovisual - Lighting, audio and video in professional environments.
• VLC - Cross-platform media player software and streaming server.

Learn

• CLI Workshoppers - Interactive tutorials.
• Learn to Program
• Speaking
• Tech Videos
• Dive into Machine Learning
• Computer History
• Programming for Kids
• Educational Games - Learn while playing.
• JavaScript Learning
• CSS Learning - Mainly about CSS – the language and the modules.
• Product Management - Learn how to be a better product manager.
• Roadmaps - Gives you a clear route to improve your knowledge and skills.
• YouTubers - Watch video tutorials from YouTubers that teach you about technology.

Security

• Application Security
• Security
• CTF - Capture The Flag.
• Malware Analysis
• Android Security
• Hacking
• Honeypots - Deception trap, designed to entice an attacker into attempting to compromise the information systems in an organization.
• Incident Response
• Vehicle Security and Car Hacking
• Web Security - Security of web apps & services.
• Lockpicking - The art of unlocking a lock by manipulating its components without the key.
• Cybersecurity Blue Team - Groups of individuals who identify security flaws in information technology systems.
• Fuzzing - Automated software testing technique that involves feeding pseudo-randomly generated input data.
• Embedded and IoT Security
• GDPR - Regulation on data protection and privacy for all individuals within EU.
• DevSecOps - Integration of security practices into DevOps.

Content Management Systems

• Umbraco
• Refinery CMS - Ruby on Rails CMS.
• Wagtail - Django CMS focused on flexibility and user experience.
• Textpattern - Lightweight PHP-based CMS.
• Drupal - Extensible PHP-based CMS.
• Craft CMS - Content-first CMS.
• Sitecore - .NET digital marketing platform that combines CMS with tools for managing multiple websites.
• Silverstripe CMS - PHP MVC framework that serves as a classic or headless CMS.

Hardware

• Robotics
• Internet of Things
• Electronics - For electronic engineers and hobbyists.
• Bluetooth Beacons
• Electric Guitar Specifications - Checklist for building your own electric guitar.
• Plotters - Computer-controlled drawing machines and other visual art robots.
• Robotic Tooling - Free and open tools for professional robotic development.
• LIDAR - Sensor for measuring distances by illuminating the target with laser light.

Business

• Open Companies
• Places to Post Your Startup
• OKR Methodology - Goal setting & communication best practices.
• Leading and Managing - Leading people and being a manager in a technology company/environment.
• Indie - Independent developer businesses.
• Tools of the Trade - Tools used by companies on Hacker News.
• Clean Tech - Fighting climate change with technology.
• Wardley Maps - Provides high situational awareness to help improve strategic planning and decision making.
• Social Enterprise - Building an organization primarily focused on social impact that is at least partially self-funded.
• Engineering Team Management - How to transition from software development to engineering management.
• Developer-First Products - Products that target developers as the user.
• Billing - Payments, invoicing, pricing, accounting, marketplace, fraud, and business intelligence.

Work

• Slack - Team collaboration.
  • Communities
• Remote Jobs
• Productivity
• Niche Job Boards
• Programming Interviews
• Code Review - Reviewing code.
• Creative Technology - Businesses & groups that specialize in combining computing, design, art, and user experience.
• Internships - CV writing guides and companies that hire interns.

Networking

• Software-Defined Networking
• Network Analysis
• PCAPTools
• Real-Time Communications - Network protocols for near simultaneous exchange of media and data.

Decentralized Systems

• Bitcoin - Bitcoin services and tools for software developers.
• Ripple - Open source distributed settlement network.
• Non-Financial Blockchain - Non-financial blockchain applications.
• Mastodon - Open source decentralized microblogging network.
• Ethereum - Distributed computing platform for smart contract development.
• Blockchain AI - Blockchain projects for artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• EOSIO - A decentralized operating system supporting industrial-scale apps.
• Corda - Open source blockchain platform designed for business.
• Waves - Open source blockchain platform and development toolset for Web 3.0 apps and decentralized solutions.
• Substrate - Framework for writing scalable, upgradeable blockchains in Rust.
• Golem - Open source peer-to-peer marketplace for computing resources.
• Stacks - A smart contract platform secured by Bitcoin.

Higher Education

• Computational Neuroscience - A multidisciplinary science which uses computational approaches to study the nervous system.
• Digital History - Computer-aided scientific investigation of history.
• Scientific Writing - Distraction-free scientific writing with Markdown, reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.

Events

• Creative Tech Events - Events around the globe for creative coding, tech, design, music, arts and cool stuff.
• Events in Italy - Tech-related events in Italy.
• Events in the Netherlands - Tech-related events in the Netherlands.

Testing

• Testing - Software testing.
• Visual Regression Testing - Ensures changes did not break the functionality or style.
• Selenium - Open-source browser automation framework and ecosystem.
• Appium - Test automation tool for apps.
• TAP - Test Anything Protocol.
• JMeter - Load testing and performance measurement tool.
• k6 - Open-source, developer-centric performance monitoring and load testing solution.
• Playwright - Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
• Quality Assurance Roadmap - How to start & build a career in software testing.

Articles

Architecture

• MonolithFirst (on starting new projects as monoliths, not as microservices) - Martin Fowler
• Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories - Herb Caudill

Business

• Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend - Dan Luu
• Camels and Rubber Duckies (on product pricing) - Joel Spolsky

Code Review

• How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human - Michael Lynch

Coding

• Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement - Brian Barto
• Code Tells You How, Comments Tell You Why - Jeff Atwood
• Code Smells - Jeff Atwood
• Understanding your own code - Eli Bendersky
• Don't Be Clever - Justin Etheredge

Computer Science

• Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard - Ron Pressler
• The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types - Joel Burget

Culture & Diversity

• The effect of markets on discrimination is more nuanced than Marc Andreessen claims - Dan Luu
• My Lawn (on the average experience level of developers) - Robert C. Martin

Debugging

• Sampling vs. tracing profilers - Dan Luu
• The case of the 500-mile email - Trey Harris
• What is the XY Problem? - Stack Overflow community wiki
• Systematic Debugging - Allison Kaptur

Education

• Stop saying learning to code is easy. - Scott Hanselman
• Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers - Allison Kaptur

Functional Programming

• An introduction to functional programming - Mary Rose Cook
• Why Functional Programming Matters - John Hughes
• Can Your Programming Language Do This? - Joel Spolsky

Hiring

• When we only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest - Dan Luu
• No, I have no side code projects to show you - Ezekiel Buchheit
• We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else - Jeff Atwood
• How to Pay Programmers Less - Yegor Bugayenko

Humour

• Programming Sucks - Peter Welch
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code - Roedy Green

Linux and Unix

• How statically linked programs run on Linux - Eli Bendersky
• Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split - Rob Landley

Methodology

• Normalization of deviance in software: how broken practices become standard - Dan Luu
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel Spolsky

Operations

• Working with the Chaos Monkey - Jeff Atwood

Philosophy

• Why I'm The Best Programmer In The World* - Jeff Atwood
• The Humble Programmer - Edsger W. Dijkstra
• It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too - Marty Jacobs

Performance

• Slow Software - Mark McGranaghan

Productivity

• CannotMeasureProductivity - Martin Fowler
• No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Security

• Password Rules Are Bullshit - Jeff Atwood
• Hacker, Hack Thyself (on testing the security of your own systems) - Jeff Atwood
• The Basics of Web Application Security - Cade Cairns, Daniel Somerfield

Software Design

• Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") - Martin Fowler
• The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel Spolsky
• Ugly Code Means Your Product Used to be Successful - Roy Osherove

Software Law

• Victory Lap for Ask Patents - Joel Spolsky
• Developers' Side Projects - Joel Spolsky

Source Control

• How to Write a Git Commit Message - Chris Beams
• Git from the Bottom Up - John Wiegley
• A successful Git branching model - Vincent Driessen
• Understanding the GitHub flow - GitHub

Special Topics

• Image Processing 101 - Sher Minn Chong
• Learn Blockchains by Building One - Daniel van Flymen
• Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing - Jesse Frederik

Testing

• Doing Terrible Things To Your Code - Jeff Atwood
• Naming standards for unit tests - Roy Osherove

Tools and Frameworks

• Choose Boring Technology - Dan McKinley

User Experience Design

• The God Login - Jeff Atwood
• The Opposite of Fitts' Law - Jeff Atwood
• Never use a warning when you mean Undo - Aza Raskin

Web Development

• How web bloat affects people with slow connections - Dan Luu

Workplace Conduct

• Code culture problem - Nolan Frausto
• Lullaby Language - Gerald Weinberg

Talks

Software Development

• The Computer Revolution hasn't happend yet by Alan Kay [1:04:34]
• The Future of Programming by Bret Victor [32:55]
• Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor [54:20]
• Media for Thinking the Unthinkable by Bret Victor [39:32]
• Finding a Way Out by Chris Granger [33:46]
• Programming is terrible - Lessons learned from a life wasted by Thomas Figg [1:06:43]
• Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure by James Mickens [27:35]
• Are We There Yet? by Rich Hickey [1:10:04]
• Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey [1:01:26]
• The Value of Values by Rich Hickey [58:53]
• Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure by Rich Hickey [1:14:51]
• The Web We Lost by Anil Dash [1:10:54]
• Growing a Language by Guy Steele [53:30]
• The Mess We're In by Joe Armstrong [45:49]
• To the Moon! by Russ Olsen [52:43]
• Simplify Challenging Software Problems with Rocket Science by Bradley Grzesiak [23:07]
• A short history of Software Engineering, and other ideas that didn't work by Paolo Perrotta [36:35]
• Linus Torvalds on Git by Linus Torvalds [1:10:14]
• The Worst Programming Language Ever by Mark Rendle [43:46]
• Unconventional Programming with Chemical Computing by Carin Meier [36:00]
• Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers by Kevlin Henney [01:02:52]
• 5 WTFs in 6 LOCs by Dorothy Wingrove [05:11]
• Programming is Writing is Programming by Felienne Hermans [55:46]
• We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul Phillips [50:42]
• Real Software Engineering by Glenn Vanderburg [1:07:57]
• Feature Branching Considered Evil by Thierry de Pauw [49:38]

Object-Oriented Programming

• Functional is cool, but do you know OO by Sandro Mancuso [54:17]
• Stop Writing Classes by Jack Diederich [27:29]

Functional Programming

• Functional Principles for Object-Oriented Developers by Jessica Kerr [51:13]
• Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich [50:34]
• Functional Programming: What? Why? When? by Robert C. Martin [58:26]
• Deconstructing Functional Programming by Gilad Bracha [48:33]
• Living in a Post-Functional World by Daniel Spiewak [45:46]
• Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala by Daniel Spiewak [39:24]
• Tangible Functional Programming by Conal Elliott [56:24]
• Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages by Phillip Wadler [1:06:53]
• Don't fear the Monad by Dr. Brian Beckman [1:07:10]
• Functional Programming Design Patterns by Scott Wlaschin [1:49:10]
• Domain modelling with the F# type system by Scott Wlaschin [1:03:40]
• Propositions as Types by Philip Wadler [42:42]
• Category Theory for the Working Hacker by Philip Wadler [42:17]
• Types are like the Weather, Type Systems are like Weathermen by Matthias Felleisen [1:15:18]
• Functional architecture - The pits of success by Mark Seemann [1:00:09]
• To Clojure and back: Writing and rewriting in Ruby by Phillip Mendonça-Vieira [33:16]
• All I needed for FP I learned in High School Algebra by Eric Normand [33:05]
• Solving Problems The Clojure Way by Rafal Dittwald [01:02:25]

Software Design

• Architecture the Lost Years by Robert C. Martin [1:06:38]
• DDD: putting the model to work by Eric Evans [58:48]
• Unleash Your Domain by Greg Young [45:20]
• The Art of Destroying Software by Greg Young [42:30]
• 8 Lines of Code by Greg Young [54:43]
• Strategic Design by Eric Evans [54:40]
• Reliability, Availability, and Scalability by Udi Dahan [1:11:09]
• Implementing Micro Service Architectures by Fred George [54:40]
• Immutability Changes Everything by Pat Helland [45:19]
• Crafting Wicked Domain Models by Jimmy Bogard [1:03:03]
• The Actor Model by Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski [42:34]
• How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters by Josh Bloch [1:00:18]
• The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase by Jeremy D Miller [1:02:30]
• Microservices by Martin Fowler [26.25]
• Stewardship: The Sobering Parts by Brian Goetz [1:03:30]
• Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen [26:04]
• Evidence-Oriented Programming by Andreas Stefik [41:42]
• The Programming Language Wars by Andreas Stefik [50:28]
• Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design by Camille Fournier [40:35]
• Kill "Microservices" Before Its Too Late by Chad Fowler [39:41]
• The Lost Art Of Software Design by Simon Brown [46:15]

Web Development

• Crockford on JavaScript by Douglas Crockford [10:14:37]
• Go To There and Back Again by Douglas Crockford [49:06]
• The Better Parts by Douglas Crockford [01:00:52]
• Introduction to Node.js by Ryan Dahl [58:19]
• WAT by Gary Bernhardt [4:17]
• The Birth & Death of JavaScript by Gary Bernhardt [29:22]
• Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong! by Brian Lonsdorf [36:30]
• Community.js by Chris Williams [21:39]
• An End to Negativity by Chris Williams [27:25]
• Is Node.js Better by Brian Ford [41:42]
• Life is Terrible: Let's Talk About the Web by James Mickens [32:07]
• Critical rendering path - Crash course on web performance by Ilya Grigorik [41:10]
• 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source by Paul Irish [53:40]
• Om Next by David Nolen [46:17]
• ClojureScript for Skeptics by Derek Slager [41:08]

Test-Driven Development

• TDD, where did it all go wrong by Ian Cooper [1:00:37]
• Holistic testing by Jimmy Bogard [1:00:33]
• Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt [33:44]
• Is TDD Dead? by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
• The Transformation Priority Premise by Robert C. Martin [53:43]
• TDD in Tatters by Scott Bellware [01:07:53]
• Test-Driven Development - Write better code in less time by Evan Dorn [30:54]
• The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz [32:22]
• How To Stop Hating Your Tests by Justin Searls [43:39]
• Why You Don't Get Mock Objects by Gregory Moeck [44:42]
• The Clean Code Talks - Unit Testing by Misko Hevery [32:07]
• TDD and Software Design by JB Rainsberger and Sandro Mancuso [01:28:50]
• Integrated Tests Are a Scam by JB Rainsberger [01:04:35]
• Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases by Kevlin Henney [01:04:23]
• Does TDD Really Lead to Good Design? by Sandro Mancuso [57:59]
• TDD For Those Who Don't Need It by Chew Choon Keat [13:42]

Methodologies

• The Land that Scrum Forgot by Robert C. Martin [45:41]
• Demanding Professionalism in Software Development by Robert C. Martin [45:03]
• Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 1 by Spotify Training & Development [13:12]
• Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 2 by Spotify Training & Development [13:27]
• Adopting Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble [47:22]
• The Death of Agile by Dave Thomas [47:47]
• Why Agile Works by Alistair Cockburn [53:03]
• Implementing Programmer Anarchy by Fred George [54:55]
• Moving Past the Scaling Myth by Michael Feathers [52:02]
• It Is Not About Software Anymore by Mary Poppendieck [01:06:38]
• 7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development by JB Rainsberger [00:07:42]
• Explaining Team Flow by Michel Grootjans [14:30]

Computer History

• A Brief History of Graphics by Stuart Brown [46:00]
• The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer by Brian Troutwine [48:36]
• The History (and the Future) of Software by Grady Booch [01:09:27]
• The Future of Programming by Robert C. Martin [01:18:20]
• 1968 by Kevlin Henney [56:44]
• DOOM’s Development: A Year of Madness by John Romero [44:12]

Databases

• Deconstructing the Database by Rich Hickey [1:06:23]

Security

• Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? by James Mickens [51:21]

Testing

• Acceptance Testing For Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley [01:02:34]

Cognitive Development

• A Lecture on Creativity by John Cleese [36:59]
• The Meaning of Life by Derek Sivers [18:54]
• Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind by Cory House [59:12]
• Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle by Brandon Hays [35:26]
• Stop Treading Water - Learning to Learn by Edward Kmett [40:58]
• The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams by Randy Pausch [1:16:26]
• Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address by Steve Jobs [15:04]
• Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey [39:48]
• Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by RSA Animate [10:47]
• Ideology by Gary Bernhardt [21:22]

Cryptocurrencies

• Bitcoin: Where the Laws of Mathematics Prevail by Andreas Antonopoulos [23:47]
• Delivering Liberty, at Scale by Andreas Antonopoulos [30:15]

Miscellaneous

• JSON - Text based data interchange format.
  • GeoJSON
  • Datasets
• CSV - A text file format that stores tabular data and uses a comma to separate values.
• Discounts for Student Developers
• Radio
• Awesome - Recursion illustrated.
• Analytics
• REST
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Services Engineering
• Free for Developers
• Answers - Stack Overflow, Quora, etc.
• Sketch - Design app for macOS.
• Boilerplate Projects
• Readme
• Design and Development Guides
• Software Engineering Blogs
• Self Hosted
• FOSS Production Apps
• Gulp - Task runner.
• AMA - Ask Me Anything.
  • Answers
• Open Source Photography
• OpenGL - Cross-platform API for rendering 2D and 3D graphics.
• GraphQL
• Urban & Regional Planning - Concerning the built environment and communities.
• Transit
• Research Tools
• Data Visualization
• Social Media Share Links
• Microservices
• Unicode - Unicode standards, quirks, packages and resources.
  • Code Points
• Beginner-Friendly Projects
• Katas
• Tools for Activism
• Citizen Science - For community-based and non-institutional scientists.
• MQTT - "Internet of Things" connectivity protocol.
• Hacking Spots
• For Girls
• Vorpal - Node.js CLI framework.
• Vulkan - Low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API.
• LaTeX - Typesetting language.
• Economics - An economist's starter kit.
• Funny Markov Chains
• Bioinformatics
• Cheminformatics - Informatics techniques applied to problems in chemistry.
• Colorful - Choose your next color scheme.
• Steam - Digital distribution platform.
• Bots - Building bots.
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Empathy in Engineering - Building and promoting more compassionate engineering cultures.
• DTrace - Dynamic tracing framework.
• Userscripts - Enhance your browsing experience.
• Pokémon - Pokémon and Pokémon GO.
• ChatOps - Managing technical and business operations through a chat.
• Falsehood - Falsehoods programmers believe in.
• Domain-Driven Design - Software development approach for complex needs by connecting the implementation to an evolving model.
• Quantified Self - Self-tracking through technology.
• SaltStack - Python-based config management system.
• Web Design - For digital designers.
• Creative Coding - Programming something expressive instead of something functional.
• No-Login Web Apps - Web apps that work without login.
• Free Software - Free as in freedom.
• Framer - Prototyping interactive UI designs.
• Markdown - Markup language.
• Dev Fun - Funny developer projects.
• Healthcare - Open source healthcare software for facilities, providers, developers, policy experts, and researchers.
• Magento 2 - Open Source eCommerce built with PHP.
• TikZ - Graph drawing packages for TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt.
• Neuroscience - Study of the nervous system and brain.
• Ad-Free - Ad-free alternatives.
• Esolangs - Programming languages designed for experimentation or as jokes rather than actual use.
• Prometheus - Open-source monitoring system.
• Homematic - Smart home devices.
• Ledger - Double-entry accounting on the command-line.
• Web Monetization - A free open web standard service that allows you to send money directly in your browser.
• Uncopyright - Public domain works.
• Crypto Currency Tools & Algorithms - Digital currency where encryption is used to regulate the generation of units and verify transfers.
• Diversity - Creating a more inclusive and diverse tech community.
• Open Source Supporters - Companies that offer their tools and services for free to open source projects.
• Design Principles - Create better and more consistent designs and experiences.
• Theravada - Teachings from the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
• inspectIT - Open source Java app performance management tool.
• Open Source Maintainers - The experience of being an open source maintainer.
• Calculators - Calculators for every platform.
• Captcha - A type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.
• Jupyter - Create and share documents that contain code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.
• FIRST Robotics Competition - International high school robotics championship.
• Humane Technology - Open source projects that help improve society.
• Speakers - Conference and meetup speakers in the programming and design community.
• Board Games - Table-top gaming fun for all.
• Software Patreons - Fund individual programmers or the development of open source projects.
• Parasite - Parasites and host-pathogen interactions.
• Food - Food-related projects on GitHub.
• Mental Health - Mental health awareness and self-care in the software industry.
• Bitcoin Payment Processors - Start accepting Bitcoin.
• Scientific Computing - Solving complex scientific problems using computers.
• Amazon Sellers
• Agriculture - Open source technology for farming and gardening.
• Product Design - Design a product from the initial concept to production.
• Prisma - Turn your database into a GraphQL API.
• Software Architecture - The discipline of designing and building software.
• Connectivity Data and Reports - Better understand who has access to telecommunication and internet infrastructure and on what terms.
• Stacks - Tech stacks for building different apps and features.
• Cytodata - Image-based profiling of biological phenotypes for computational biologists.
• IRC - Open source messaging protocol.
• Advertising - Advertising and programmatic media for websites.
• Earth - Find ways to resolve the climate crisis.
• Naming - Naming things in computer science done right.
• Biomedical Information Extraction - How to extract information from unstructured biomedical data and text.
• Web Archiving - An effort to preserve the Web for future generations.
• WP-CLI - Command-line interface for WordPress.
• Credit Modeling - Methods for classifying credit applicants into risk classes.
• Ansible - A Python-based, open source IT configuration management and automation platform.
• Biological Visualizations - Interactive visualization of biological data on the web.
• QR Code - A type of matrix barcode that can be used to store and share a small amount of information.
• Veganism - Making the plant-based lifestyle easy and accessible.
• Translations - The transfer of the meaning of a text from one language to another.
• Scriptable - An iOS app for automations in JavaScript.
• WebXR - Enables immersive virtual reality and augmented reality content on the web.

Related

• All Awesome Lists - All the Awesome lists on GitHub.
• Awesome Indexed - Search the Awesome dataset.
• Awesome Search - Quick search for Awesome lists.
• StumbleUponAwesome - Discover random pages from the Awesome dataset using a browser extension.
• Awesome CLI - A simple command-line tool to dive into Awesome lists.
• Awesome Viewer - A visualizer for all of the above Awesome lists.
• Track Awesome List - View the latest updates of Awesome lists.

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