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Curated collections & archives about Software engineering

Every link here is both a curated collection or archive and about software engineering.

Hall of Fame: 14
Candidates: 28
Median span: 6.8 yrs
First seen: 2010

Strongest Hall records

14 items

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

www.aosabook.org 19 submissions · 19 people · 14.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2023-10-08

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List of falsehoods programmers believe in

github.com 15 submissions · 14 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-03

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Linux Performance

www.brendangregg.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2023-10-14

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Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it

github.com 36 submissions · 12 people · 5.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2022-01-01

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Trunk-Based Development

trunkbaseddevelopment.com 11 submissions · 10 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2026-02-21

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Programming cheat sheets

overapi.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 5.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-05 Resurfaced 2017-11-14

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The state of building user interfaces in Rust

areweguiyet.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2026-06-10

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Paged Out

pagedout.institute 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-02

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All software sucks

harmful.cat-v.org 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-08 Resurfaced 2018-08-30

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Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies

github.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-10 Resurfaced 2020-10-26

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Why the name?

wiki.debian.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2020-04-06

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Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

www.fmwconcepts.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2022-02-18

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Android vendors, don’t kill my app

dontkillmyapp.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-11 Resurfaced 2023-11-23

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Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers

github.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2021-05-03

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Recently resurfaced

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The state of building user interfaces in Rust

areweguiyet.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2026-06-10

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Trunk-Based Development

trunkbaseddevelopment.com 11 submissions · 10 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2026-02-21

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Paged Out

pagedout.institute 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-02

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Android vendors, don’t kill my app

dontkillmyapp.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-11 Resurfaced 2023-11-23

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Linux Performance

www.brendangregg.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2023-10-14

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Candidates

Browse 28 candidates

Learn X in Y Minutes

learnxinyminutes.com 25 submissions · 25 people · 12.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-08-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Free for Developers

free-for.dev 14 submissions · 13 people · 6.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Microjs

microjs.com 16 submissions · 16 people · 13.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-30

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today

github.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 8.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-06-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Kubernetes Failure Stories

k8s.af 14 submissions · 14 people · 6.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Software optimization resources

www.agner.org 17 submissions · 17 people · 15.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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International Obfuscated C Code Contest – 2018 Winning Entries

www.ioccc.org 18 submissions · 15 people · 11.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-05-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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A List of Post-Mortems

github.com 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-04-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub

dotfiles.github.io 10 submissions · 10 people · 10.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Code.nasa.gov

code.nasa.gov 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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

github.com 16 submissions · 15 people · 6.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-05-31

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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List of command line tools for manipulating CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, INI, etc.

github.com 6 submissions · 5 people · 8.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-04-08

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Cool but obscure X11 tools

cyber.dabamos.de 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-03-21

Needs:5 submissions

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List of open source applications for macOS

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-09-12

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Up for Grabs: Projects which have curated tasks for new contributors

up-for-grabs.net 7 submissions · 6 people · 8.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-06-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Build Your Own X

github.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-01-31

Needs:5 submissions

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Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally

github.com 10 submissions · 10 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-08-09

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

github.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-09-08

Needs:5 submissions

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Langserver.org – A community-driven source for Language Server implementations

langserver.org 7 submissions · 7 people · 5.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-02-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)

archive.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 7.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-05

Needs:5 submissions

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Professional programming resources

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-02-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (1983)

archive.org 6 submissions · 5 people · 5.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-12-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Essays on programming I think about a lot

www.benkuhn.net 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-24

Needs:5 submissions

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Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories

beza1e1.tuxen.de 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-12

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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Pascal for Small Machines

pascal.hansotten.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-05-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Awesome Sysadmin: Open-source sysadmin resources

github.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-08-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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File format wiki

fileformats.archiveteam.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-11-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 2.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2014-05-05

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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