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A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know.

These are resources I can recommend to every programmer regardless of their skill level or tech stack

Highly opinionated 💣. Not backed by science. Comes in no particular order ♻️

P.S. You don't need to know all of that by heart to be a programmer. But knowing the stuff will help you become better! 💪

P.P.S. Contributions are welcome!

• 🎥 Map of Computer Science
• 🎥 40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms
• 📄 Computer Science Roadmap
• 📄 Community-driven Roadmaps for Developers

• Awesome Falsehoods 💊 Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in. Check for things you do not know about Strings, Addresses, Names, Numbers, Emails, Timezones and Dates and more.

• Big O Cheatsheet
• 📖 Computer Science Distilled
• 📖 Grokking Algorithms
• 📖 Introduction to Algorithms
• Algorithms Visualization
• Algorithms for Competitive Programming

• 📖 Hello Algo
• 🎥 UC Berkeley, Data Structures Course
• Foundations of Data Structures - EDX
• Data Structures - Coursera
• Mathematics for Computer Science - Eric Lehman

• 📖 How to Count
• 📄 Floating Point Guide
• 📄 What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• 📄 Basic Number Theory Every Programmer Should Know...

• 📄 Unicode and Character Sets
• Homoglyphs
• Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
• 🎥 ASCII
• 🎥 UTF-8

• Interactive Latency Infographics
• 📄 Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

• 📄 Some notes about time
• 🎥 The Problem with Timezones

• 📄 What every Programmer should know about memory

• 📖 Understanding Distributed Systems
• 📖 Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• 📜 Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems
• 📜 Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
• 📄 There is No Now
• 📄 Jepsen: how different databases behave under partition
• 📜 Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained

• 🏫 Andrew NG Machine Learning Specification Class

• 🔗 RegexHQ
• 🔗 Learn regex the easy way
• 🔗 Regex Crossword

• 📖 Security Programming
• 📄 Rolling Your Own Crypto
• 📄 Cryptographic Right Answers
• 📄 An Open Letter to Developers Everywhere (About Cryptography)
• 📖 Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
• 📄 OWASP Top 10 - The "gold standard" for web application vulnerabilities.
• 📄 Portswigger Academy - Practical Labs for learning about web application security.
• 📄 Web Application Exploits and Defenses
• 📄 Hashing, Encryption and Encoding

• 📖 Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• 🎥 Inventing on Principle

• 📄 What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO

• 📜 A Field Guide to Boxology
• 📜 Out of the Tar Pit
• 📜 No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
• 🎥 Growing a Language
• 🎥 CQRS and Event Sourcing
• 📖 Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
• 🎥 Evolutionary Software Architectures
• System Design: A Primer
• 📄 How JavaScript works: part-1, 2, 3, 4
• 🎥 Entity-Component-System Architecture with Unity by example

• 📄 Programming Principles Wiki

• 🎥 Category Theory in Life
• 🎥 Simple Made Easy
• 📄 Speed In Software Development
• 🎥 #NoEstimates
• 🎥 The Myth of the Genius Programmer
• 🎥 Making Badass Developers
• 📄 The Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer
• 📄 The mythical 10x programmer
• 📄 The Debugging Mindset
• 🎥 The Future of Programming
• 📄 The Good Software Development Manifesto
• 🎥 All the Little Things
• 📄 Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

• 📖 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• 📖 The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
• 📖 Code Complete
• 📖 Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• 📖 Test Driven Development: By Example
• ✅ Going To Production Checklist
• 📖 Release It!
• 📖 Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
• 📖 SICP: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• 📄 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turtle
• 📜 Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know
• Learn X in Y Minutes Learn the basics of a language in a highly condensed way.
• Hyperpolyglot Compare commonly used features of more or less similar languages side-by-side. Helps you to jump Python<->Ruby, Ocaml<->Haskell, etc.
• 📄 Pomodoro for Programmers
• 📖 Site Reliability Engineering

• 💰 Levels FYI
  Salary stats for various tech companies. Better than Glassdoor.
• 📄 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job
• 📄 How Much Do Software Engineers Really Make in Each City?
• 📄 Software Engineers Tenure in San Francisco
• Software Engineering 101
• 📖 The Passionate Programmer
• 📖 Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual
• 📖 The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
• 📖 Programming Beyond Practices: Be More Than Just a Code Monkey
• A list of European Investors
• 📄 Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
• 📄 How To Interview As a Developer Candidate
• 📄 How To Get a Tech Job Abroad Faster
• 📖 How To Be A STAR Engineer
• 📈 TL;DR; Stock Options
  • Discussion on HN #1
  • Discussion on HN #2
• 📄 The Open Guide to Equity Compensation
• 📄 Equity 101 for Startup Employees
• 📖 Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
• 🔥 Everything you need to know to get the job
• 📖 Tech Interview Handbook
• 📄 Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
• 📄 What you should know as a founder of a software company
• 🎥 Code Interview Prep & Programming Questions | Pramp
• 📖 97 things every programmer should know
• 🎥 A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

• 🔨 CV Compiler

• 🌐 Learn how to use Git and GitHub

• 🌐 Remotive.io: Startups hiring remotely
• 🌐 Remote Work List for Developers
• ⚡ NomadList
• 📖 The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
• 🏠 Awesome Remote Job

• 📖 The Art and Craft of Problem Solving
• 📖 How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

• 📖 Difficult Conversations
• 📖 Crucial Conversations
• 📖 How to Win Friends and Influence People

• Awesome Mental Health
  A curated list of awesome articles, websites and resources about mental health in the software industry.

• ❤️ Papers We Love
• 📰 The Morning Paper
• 📜 What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
• 📜 Go To Statement Considered Harmful
• 📰 Arxiv
• 📰 Sci-hub

• 📚 Free Programming Books

• 🤖 Abstract API's
• Free For Dev
• Public APIs
• The Noun Project
• Without Coding
• Simpleicons
• Learn Anything
• repl.it

• Choose An Open Source License
• Well-explained Software licenses in TLDR version
• How open source licenses work and how to add them to your projects

• freeCodeCamp Guide
• GeeksForGeeks
• Dev.To
• Stack Overflow
• Dzone

• 🔗 CodeForces
• 🔗 CodeChef
• 🔗 Coderbyte
• 🔗 CodinGame
• 🔗 Cs Academy
• 🔗 HackerRank
• 🔗 Spoj
• 🔗 HackerEarth
• 🔗 TopCoder
• 🔗 Codewars
• 🔗 Exercism
• 🔗 CodeSignal
• 🔗 Project Euler
• 🔗 LeetCode
• 🔗 Firecode.io
• 🔗 InterviewBit
• 🔗 uCoder
• 🔗 LintCode
• 🔗 CodeCombat
• 🔗 InterviewCake
• 🔗 At Coder
• 🔗 Codility
• 🔗 ICPC Problem Archive
• 🔗 Codemia
• 🔗 LabEx
• 🔗 Codebattle

• Robocode
• Elevatorsaga
• Untrusted
• CSS Diner
• CodingGame

A modern discipline that evolved from DevOps and SRE principles, focused on improving developer experience and productivity by building and managing self-service tools and workflows, often through an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). The goal is to reduce cognitive load on developers and streamline the path to production.

• What is Platform Engineering?

  • Microsoft Learn: What is platform engineering?
    A comprehensive overview of the practice, its goals, and core capabilities.
  • Atlassian: What is Platform Engineering?
    A great explanation of the roles and responsibilities of a platform team.

• Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

  • internaldeveloperplatform.org: What is an IDP?
    A foundational resource explaining the concept of an IDP as the core product of a platform team.
  • Atlassian: Internal Developer Platform Guide
    A deep dive into the benefits and best practices for building an IDP.

• Golden Paths (Paved Roads)

  • Spotify Engineering: How we use Golden Paths to solve fragmentation
    The original concept from Spotify, explaining how they use "opinionated and supported paths" to guide developers.
  • Red Hat: What is a Golden Path for software development?
  • A clear article on how Golden Paths provide templates and standardized workflows to increase efficiency.