2026-04-24
Knowledge
Seems worth while:
- Being a good engineer means knowing best practices. Being a senior engineer mean knowing when to break best practices.
- Laws of software
- Modern Microprocessors
- The Miller Principle
Notes:
- Go sucks at memory mapped systems
- Rust sucks at bit fields
Lists:
Other junk while scrolling:
- Vim Smartindent Trick? - Takeaway: Don't use smartindent with non-code (e.g. Markdown)
- Make tmux Pretty and Usable
- JVM Options Explorer
- Git Commands Before Reading Code -
git logcommands for isolating bugs, cadence, and crits. - Git Commands Cheatsheet
- tmux-jump
- SSH Certificates
- Windows Commands
- Shellharden - Tool for syntax highlighting bad shell behaviors.
- 750 page guide to self hosting
- Fixing Locked Makita Batteries
- Algorithm Visualizer
- rust in 30 minutes
AI (And Other News)
- AI consumes community resources
- Claude Writing Skills
- Cloudflare blocking internet for Football
- AMD Taking On CUDA with ROCm
- Does Anyone Use NPU?
- Robot Dog
- Meta AI Crawler Overly Aggressive
- 30 days of LLM Honeypot
- No GPU Required for Massive Context
- Qwen on Rockchip
- I quit, clankers won
- DNS over QUIC
- AMD's Lemonade
- rk-llama.cpp
- PrismML - High density models.
- Learn To Reason in 13 parameters
Tools
From single references:
- 11ty - Jamstack-ish
- toybox - All in one linux command
- sbase - Suckless command collection.
- readeck - Bookmark like tool.
- difftastic - syntax-aware diffing tool
- hyperfine - CLI benchmarking
- cbonsai - Terminal Bonsai Tree
- wtfutil - Terminal Dashboard
- sshuttle - VPN via SSH
From reddit/HN links:
- gitoverit - see all repos at once
- Obsidian For Presentations
- Cargo for C/C++ (Meh)
- Little Snitch - Network Monitoring
- zt - minimal term in Zig
- lava lamp in terminal
- Peer To Peer Comms, Serverless
- resterm - TUI API Client
- PolicyFS
- APTUI - TUI for Apt Package Management
- Foxing (Filesystem Replication)
- c89 in shell script
- IPv6 as a Sentence
- Fast Erosion Filter
- Webminimal
- Jami - Private Chat Software
- Kagi - Private Search
- SSH Task Runner
- TUI Video Trimming
- PostgreSQL Schema Management
- Fast Image Viewer For Windows
- Authentication Services in One Container Image
- Terminal RPG Game
Material purchase:
Extension:
- VSCode Extension Blockman - Scope visualization