An assortment of random notes that I find worth keeping and re-reading.

Misc

• Hotel Room
• The Technology
• Social animal
• My Twisted World
• What is a Hacker?
• How to get a job like mine
• How to clean your retainer
• Why it doesn’t matter how you feel about your friends
• The top idea in your mind
• What is a straw man argument?
• Buy experiences, not things
• Parable of the Polygons
• Sharp, 5-Point Business Memo by Evan Spiegel
• Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)
• Theory of Change
• Richard Stallman in “Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age”
• A Short Course in Ethics

Technical

• What happens when you visit a website?
• Reddit’s thumbnail algorithm
• Learn C the hard way
• HTTP made easy
• An introduction to the Apache HTTP server
• Intro to A*
• Technical explanation of Bitcoin
• Everything about SQL injection
• Sentiment Analysis, a second try
• Huffman coding
• What is TCP and how does it work?
• VIM:essentials
• Hitchhikers guide to python
• Intro to Makefiles
• How to make a networked mobile app feel fast and local
• Tools of the modern python hacker
• SSH tunneling
• IP Address -> Hash function example
• Django plugins to start with
• Common dynamic programming problems
• Python webapps w/ gunicorn & nginx
• CURL vs Wget
• How to configure an apache-nginx reverse proxy
• Apache virtualhost examples
• Great sqlalchemy examples
• Cool python in-place list removal trick
• Tour of the linux filesystem
• Make python faster without trying that much
• How to build a URL shortener
• Better bash scripting in 15 minutes
• An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java P1
• 8 OSX command line utilities everyone should know
• A hacker’s guide to git
• The NLTK book
• Markov Chains - Explained
• Understanding IP Addresses, Subnets, and CIDR Notation
• What is a linker, and what are dynamic and static linking?
• Python: multi-threading vs multi-processing in depth
• Why use www. instead of a naked domain?
• Why use “closure”?
• FSMs in Python
• Understanding Python decorators (and much more)
• Python decorator library
• A POSIX Queue Implementation
• VisualGo - visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
• Cache is the new RAM
• How does SSL & TLS work?
• Create your own Heroku on EC2
• HTML5 Web Sockets
• Difference between unicode and UTF-8
• What is CGI?
• Git data transport commands
• How CDNs work
• Why did dailup modems make noise?
• How do just-in-time (JIT) compilers work?
• Eternal September

Finance

• What are stocks?
• Why do some companies pay/don’t pay dividends?
• Khan Academy: Core finance

News & journalism

• Interview with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed & Huffpost
• New York times innovation report

Comical

• Linus Torvalds rant on C++
• XKCD Heartbleed explanation

Design

• Suggested font pairings - Google
• Bootstrap responsive UI guide
• Bootflat - a free bootstrap flat framework
• PlaceIt - splash image simulator