The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering: * quality decline of Google search results * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us) * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

I mean no disrespect to the maintainers, but am I the only one who doesn't find lists like this particularly useful? They're the kind of thing I used to bookmark, thinking that I'd come back to it at some point when I wanted to learn more about X (containers, networking, etc), but I'd never return. I think the problem is that lists like this _feel_ good but aren't useful. They feel good to write and good to read, because you…

I understand from the page: the "book of "secret" [IT] knowledge [sources]", where "secret" could mean that you are invited to contribute and "share your secrets"...

So many links... great resource. But I'm going to be a little off-topic. This is a second time today when the page posted on HN contains a reference (link) to HN itself, a recursive binding in a sense. It's an interesting phenomenon. There might be a fun convention when there's a "secret" code (a couple of text symbols) to be used in the title in such cases (when the author is aware both of the fact and this convention). Just…