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# The Bookmarks









## Websites that look nice to me

- [PostHog](https://posthog.com/product-analytics)

  - I like the color palette and the style

  







## API

- [Nate Barbettini – API Throwdown: RPC vs REST vs GraphQL, Iterate 2018](https://youtu.be/IvsANO0qZEg)

  - Quite a good comparison between the three popular choices, and conclusion is to focus on user case!

  







## Blog

- [Scott Logic](https://blog.scottlogic.com/)

  - Thoughts on technology and design

- [The Kent C. Dodds Blog](https://kentcdodds.com/blog)

  - Web, Open Source, Testing and many more

- [Josh W Comeau](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/)

  - CSS and frontend in general

- [当然我在扯淡](https://www.yinwang.org/)

- [Gergely Orosz - The Pragmatic Engineer](https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/author/gergely/)

  - Good perspective on Tech happenings and working at Tech

- [Benjamin Yolken | Adventures in software engineering](https://yolken.net/)

- [antirez](http://antirez.com/latest/0)

- [Peter Bengtsson](https://www.peterbe.com/plog)

- [Simon Willison’s Weblog](https://simonwillison.net/)

  - (At the time of reading) great info on generative AI, especially the danger

- [No Idea Blog](https://noidea.dog/)









## Blockchain

- [How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE)

- [Blockchain 101 - A Visual Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_160oMzblY8)

- [Game Theory and Network Attacks: How to Destroy Bitcoin - BPASE '18](https://youtu.be/ujz3sXpNgtc)









## ChatGPT

- [ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web](https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web/amp)

  - "OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?"

- [“It’s Not Possible for Me to Feel or Be Creepy”: An Interview with ChatGPT](https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/its-not-possible-for-me-to-feel-or-be-creepy-an-interview-with-chatgpt#intcid=_the-new-yorker-amp-bottom-recirc_ddb11839-ea89-43e6-a1c4-ead46e87c796_text2vec1)

- [Making Large Language Models Work For You](https://youtu.be/aC7UQcZN6y8?si=kU4Wt4lG8U09sjFU)

  - Great coverage of LLM and its current state of development

 







## Career

- [Get your work recognized: write a brag document](https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/#template)

  - Something that I want to start doing to keep track and review my work

- [Chad Fowler - The Passionate Programmer: 10 years later](https://youtu.be/CkfjCef-iYI)

- [A forty-year career.](https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/)

- [Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/)

- [Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/)









## CLI

- [Command Line Interface Guidelines](https://clig.dev/)

  - Some guidelines & principles for writing command line interfaces. Provide a good starting point to think about how to design command formats that is useful for any type of CLI-like applications

- [Designing a delightful command line interface - Nahid Samsami and Jeff Dickey](https://youtu.be/PHiDG-_XoRk)

  - Introduces "oclif", which is a command line interface framework for Node.js









## Code

- [Aha Programming](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/aha-programming)

  - Interesting perspective on "Avoid Hasty Abstraction"

- [The wrong abstraction](https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction)

  - Wrong abstraction is more dangerous/costly than duplication









## CSS

- [FLEXBOX FROGGY](https://flexboxfroggy.com/)

- [Flexbox Patterns](https://flexboxpatterns.com/)

- [Visualize Complex Ideas Programmatically](https://motioncanvas.io/)









## Frontend Libraries

- [Swup](https://github.com/swup/swup)

  - Complete, flexible, extensible and easy to use page transition library for your static web









## Git

- [Semantic Version](https://semver.org/)

  - Official guide on Semantic Versioning

- [Manage releases with Semantic Versioning and Git Tags](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wPjo5C-v8Y)

  - Video walkthrough on how to manage releases with Semantic Versioning and Git Tags

- [Why do we use "git checkout" to discard file changes?](https://www.bryanbraun.com/2019/06/11/why-we-use-git-checkout-to-discard-file-changes/)

  - Magic of `git checkout -- xxx`

- [Git Hooks](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-hooks)









## GitHub Actions/Workflows

- [Bash scripting cheatsheet](https://devhints.io/bash)

  - Always going to bump into shell scripts, might as well take note of the syntax

- [Shell Scripting Tutorial](https://www.shellscript.sh/index.html)

  - Another shell tutorial that looks legit

- [Git Basics - Tagging](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging)

  - Tagging is an important concept to master, especially for release management

- [Retag a Git Tag](https://michaelheap.com/retag-git-tag/)

  - Useful note when doing GitHub Action release management





  




## Go

- [Go by Example](https://gobyexample.com/)

  - Quick explanation with code examples

- [How To Use Struct Tags in Go](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-struct-tags-in-go)

  - Useful to understand for JSON encoding/decoding

- [User:GopherGuides](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/users/gopherguides)

  - Tutorials & Guides

- [Comprehensive Guide to Dates and Times in Go](https://blog.boot.dev/golang/golang-date-time/)

  - Handle time in Go

- [JSON-to-Go](https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/)

  - Convert JSON to Go struct

  







## Interview

- ['How to Get a Job at the Big 4 - Amazon, Facebook, Google & Microsoft' by Sean Lee](https://youtu.be/YJZCUhxNCv8)

- [互联网和数据领域 求职公开课 2019](https://youtu.be/QKDTPP5m0iM)

- [Google resume tips and advice](https://youtu.be/S_Macvy5CQE)

- [How to conduct a good Programming Interview](https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/HowtoconductagoodProgrammingInterview.html)









## Java

- [Comparison Method Violates Its General Contract! (Part 1) by Stuart Marks](https://youtu.be/Enwbh6wpnYs)

  - Ever wondered how concepts in discrete mathematics like "reflexive, transitive and antisymmetric" can be useful in programming?

- [Optional by Stuart Marks](https://youtu.be/fBYhtvY19xA)

  - Essentially what you need to know about Java's Optional: the origins, the caveats and usage details.

- [Thinking In Parallel by Stuart Marks and Brian Goetz](https://youtu.be/2nup6Oizpcw)

  - Introduction and some good discussion about Java's Stream feature

- [Let's Get Lazy: Exploring the Real Power of Streams with Venkat Subramaniam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekFPGD2g-ps)

  - Well crafted presentation that explores various concepts of "Stream" in Java. Love the energy and the humour of the speaker too.

- ["Change is the Only Constant”. Really? by Maurice Naftalin](https://youtu.be/Dr3jnTXnm5U)

  - Some discussion about immutability, which is a really debatable...









## Kafka

- [Overview of Kafka with macOS Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyEZgeu1sSw)

- [Thorough Introduction to Apache Kafka™](https://hackernoon.com/thorough-introduction-to-apache-kafka-6fbf2989bbc1)

- [Kafka and Zookeeper with Docker](https://medium.com/rahasak/kafka-and-zookeeper-with-docker-65cff2c2c34f)












## Kubernetes

- [How to learn Kubernetes in 2022](https://youtu.be/JeAHlTYB1Qk)









## Knowledge Management

- [Unbundling Tools for Thought](https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought)









## Newsletter

- [The Pragmatic Engineer](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/)

  - [Shipping to Production](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shipping-to-production?s=r)

- [ByteByteGo](https://blog.bytebytego.com/?utm_source=site)









## Negotiation

- [Exactly what to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number… and other negotiation word-for-words](https://interviewing.io/blog/negotiate-salary-recruiter)

- [Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer](https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/)









## Node

- [package.json is not enough](https://youtu.be/7lYnzRkVVLE)

  - Subtle difference between package.json and package-lock.json, and when to use `npm i` vs `npm ci`

- [Node’s Child Processes](https://jscomplete.com/learn/node-beyond-basics/child-processes)

  - More advanced stuff about the child process module









## Open-Source Guides, Software News & Events

- [Hunting typosquatters on npm](https://blog.scottlogic.com/2018/02/27/hunting-typosquatters-on-npm.html)

  - Hacking based on human error

- [Open Source Guides](https://opensource.guide/)

  - Learn how to launch and grow OSS projects

- [The Art of Closing](https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/the-art-of-closing/)

  - How to nicely close contributor PRs

- [Maintainer's Guide to Staying Positive](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/maintainers-guide-to-staying-positive)

  - Dealing with maintainer burnout





  




## Software Engineering

- [The Law of Leaky Abstractions](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/)

  - We can't escape abstraction (either writing or using it), but it leaks!

- [How Google sets goals: OKRs / Startup Lab Workshop](https://youtu.be/mJB83EZtAjc)

  - Goal setting with OKR

- [OKR examples](https://www.whatmatters.com/get-examples#Engineering)

  - Some examples for engineers

- [The Effective Engineer | Edmond Lau | Talks at Google](https://youtu.be/BnIz7H5ruy0)

- [How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One)](https://mtlynch.io/human-code-reviews-1/)

- [How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You](https://mtlynch.io/code-review-love/)

- [The System Design Primer](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer)

  - Open source collection of all things system design

- [A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google](https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY)

- [When life gives you lemons, write better error messages](https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f)

- [StaffEng](https://staffeng.com/)









## Test

- [Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz](https://youtu.be/URSWYvyc42M)

  - Neat presentation on testing, examples are in Rails but applicable to any languages

- [Usability Testing: How to Do-It-Yourself with Steve Krug](https://youtu.be/VTW1yYUqBm8)

  - A good talk to convince you that usability testing is important

- [Usability Cafe](http://goo.gl/zdD4jq)

  - A template to conduct quick user testing

- [Running a Remote Usability Test](https://youtu.be/ZkDafFDtJ1Y)

  - Good instructions on how to conduct remote usability testing

- [A/B Testing: Test Your Own Hypotheses & Prepare to be Wrong - Stuart Frisby](https://youtu.be/VQpQ0YHSfqM)

  - Quick take on data-driven development

- [A/B Testing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Corey Losenegger at Madison+ UX](https://youtu.be/0dVIjWTI_A0)

  - A/B testing - what could go wrong?

- [How to add testing to an existing project](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-to-add-testing-to-an-existing-project)

  - Get started on software testing

- [Static vs Unit vs Integration vs E2E Testing for Frontend Apps](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/static-vs-unit-vs-integration-vs-e2e-tests)

- [Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-with-5-users/)

  - Explains why a small number of test users can provide quite a bit of help already!

- [Mutation testing by example – Junit 5, Maven and Pitest](https://codesoapbox.dev/mutation-testing-by-example-junit-5-maven-and-pitest/)

  - Mutations and killing them

- [Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems](https://github.com/asatarin/testing-distributed-systems)









## The Third Web

- [Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs](https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g)

  - An excellent video essay on NFTs

- [The Third Web](https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/)

  - Introduction and critical discussion of the third web









## Quotes

- Enlightened trial-and-error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius

- Critics are our friends, they show us our faults

  - Something to keep in mind when discussing over code/PR

- Context, not control

- Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence

- Respect what came before









## Writing

- [How to write usefully](http://www.paulgraham.com/useful.html)









## Zzz! Those Issues

- A popular logger's struggle with logging an... error!

  - [here](https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/issues/1338), [here](https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/issues/280), and [here](https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/issues/1498)

- Have you tried adding/removing a month in Golang?

  - [time AddDate(0, -1, 0) does not work for March. #31145](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31145)