Links
Sunday, Jan 4 2009, 02:58 EST
Link log
The following sections are pretty static lists of very highly recommended articles. For a continuous feed of things I’ve found keep- or share-worthy, even if it didn’t make its way in here, take a look at my del.icio.us link log (which you can subscribe).
Readworthy people
- Bruce Schneier
- Jamie Zawinsky
- Joel Spolsky
- Karsten M. Self
- Kragen Sitaker (homepage)
- Mark Jason Dominus
- Mark Pilgrim
- Paul Graham
- Peter Norvig
- Steve Yegge (weblog)
Readworthy articles
- How to Report Bugs Effectively
- How to help someone use a computer
- How to fix Mom’s computer
- Personal Firewall Security FAQ
- “Personal Firewalls” are mostly snake-oil
- One Question Certification Tests for E-Mail Filter Authors
- Challenge-Response Anti-Spam Systems Considered Harmful (see also An anti-challenge-response Xmas linkfest)
- AntiVirus / Bounce Spam
- A (not so) Short Rant / FAQ on the Subject of Signed E-Mail and Public Key Infrastructure
- What’s Your Threat Model?
- Axioms of Web architecture
- The System of the World Wide Web: How the Web won
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- Survival guide to i18n
- What the heck is a string
- Characters vs. Bytes
- Charsets
- HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML
- Replace Conditional With Polymorphism
- Singleton Considered Stupid
- Programming by Coincidence
- Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
- A Tirade Against the Cult of Performance
- What makes code hard to modify
- Five Lessons You Should Learn from Extreme Programming
- Technical Debt
- What I Hate About Your Programming Language
- The CADT Model
- Things You Should Never Do, Part Ⅰ and Rub a dub dub
- Lessons in Packaging Linux Applications
- Barnraising your IT
- Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves
- The Hacker FAQ and The Manager FAQ
- How do we tell truths that might hurt?
- How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
- The Crooked Timber Of Software Development
- Why specs matter
- “Enterprise software” is a social, not technical, phenomenon
- Dabblers and Blowhards
- Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?
- Yak Shaving
- Time Management: The Pickle Jar Theory
- Intellectual-Property Patents Are Evil
- Celebrating Independence By Making Part of it Illegal
Web related stuff:
- When and how to use internet image formats
- Mandatory Java/Javascript Considered Harmful
- CSS Positioning
- Slash Forward (Some URLs are Better Than Others)
- Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make
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