Bookmarks

Links I do not want to forget and I find interesting to share.

Software Engineering

Branching and versioning

• Trunk based development
• SemVer will not save you
• Hyrum’s Law - Once it is used, any fix can be a breaking change
• Calendar Versioning

Infrastructure and configuration management

• Stop using branches deploying different gitops environments
• How to model your gitops environments and promote releases between them
• End of life date of various software components

Tools

• SS64 - Command line reference

Essays

• Programming as Theory building - by Peter Naur

Programming languages

Parsing

• Langium - Framework to quickly develop Language Server Protocol compatible languages
• ANTLR - Multiple language parser generator

Ranking

• PYPL - Based on search on Google
• RedMonk - Based on GitHub (code) and StackOverflow (discussion)
• IEEE Spectrum - Based on various metrics, and trends in the professional industry
• TIOBE Index - Based on number of webpages with language name
• Languish - Based on GitHub and StackOverflow
• StackOverflow Survey - Based on surveys
• State of the Octoverse - Based on activity on GitHub
• PL Rank - Based on aggregation of other programming language rankings

Computer Graphics

• Inigo Quilez web site - Treasure trove on shaders and computer graphics
• Shader Toy - demos of what can be done using fragment shaders
• Scratch a pixel - Tutorials on computer graphics
• Learn Wgpu - for Rust
• WebGL2 Fundamentals
• WebGPU Fundamentals
• The book of shaders

Rust

• Common Rust lifetime misconception
• Sizedness in Rust
• Tour of Rust’s standard library traits
• Object soup is made of indexes
• Why Async Rust?
• Design of Pin
• Graydon Hoare, “The Rust I wanted had no future”
• Mara Bos, “Rust Atomics and Locks”
• Rust releases at a glance
• The Little Book of Rust Macros
• An unofficial guide to the Rust ecosystem
• Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists

Web

• State of JavaScript
• How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016
• List of static site generators

Fluid simulation

Reference articles

• Mark J. Harris, in GPU Gems Chapter 38, NVidia publication
• Jos Stam, “Stable Fluids”, In SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, August 1999, 121-128.
• Jos Stam, “Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games”. Proceedings of the Game Developer Conference, March 2003.
• Other publications from Jos Stem

Tutorials and examples

• Omar Shehata, “How to Write a Smoke Shader”
• Shahriar Shahrabi, “Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Technical Artists”

Existing implementations

• https://github.com/PavelDoGreat/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation
• https://github.com/haxiomic/GPU-Fluid-Experiments
• https://github.com/mharrys/fluids-2d
• https://github.com/rachelbhadra/smoke_simulator

Project management

• Diátaxis framework - How to write clear documentation

Algorithms

• Advent of Code - Algorithm problems for December

Embedded & Electronics

• NAND game - Build a computer from scratch
• Electronics Club
• BBC Microbit - Cortex-M board with a nRF52833 chip

Mathematics

• Category Theory - Bartosz Milewski

Japanese

• Guide to Japanese - Japanese grammar
• Jisho - Japanese dictionary
• Anki - Tool to help memorize anything
• NHK New Web Easy

Demoscene

• Nectarine - Streaming demoscine music 24/7

Cooking

• (French) Je pense, donc je cuis - Science behind cooking

Programming for children

• Citizen Code - Learn in Python and Blockly