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Books and learning on software engineering

Every link here is classified as books and learning on software engineering.

Hall of Fame: 62
Candidates: 90
Median span: 7.4 yrs
First seen: 2007

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62 items

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

web.mit.edu 17 submissions · 16 people · 15.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2025-08-25

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The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

www.catb.org 17 submissions · 15 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-08 Resurfaced 2022-04-27

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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

pages.cs.wisc.edu 20 submissions · 17 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2021-02-07

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Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

eloquentjavascript.net 14 submissions · 14 people · 18.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-07 Resurfaced 2024-03-07

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Linux ate my RAM

www.linuxatemyram.com 12 submissions · 12 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2023-10-09

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Tutorial: How to use Git in a team development environment

nvie.com 17 submissions · 17 people · 12.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2023-09-07

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Oh Shit, Git?

ohshitgit.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-16

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Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)

cstack.github.io 17 submissions · 15 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2023-05-03

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Advanced programming languages (2009)

matt.might.net 12 submissions · 10 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-06 Resurfaced 2020-05-05

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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

web.stanford.edu 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2025-12-08

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The XY Problem (2014)

xyproblem.info 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2025-12-04

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Essential C (2003) [pdf]

cslibrary.stanford.edu 10 submissions · 10 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2022-03-05 archived copy

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Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)

www.michaelnielsen.org 12 submissions · 12 people · 14.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2022-11-08

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Learn C and build your own Lisp

www.buildyourownlisp.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2025-08-05

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An Introduction to Reactive Programming

gist.github.com 16 submissions · 16 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2020-10-25

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The missing semester of CS education

missing.csail.mit.edu 9 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2026-02-23

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What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

dev.stephendiehl.com 11 submissions · 9 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-09 Resurfaced 2020-04-11 archived copy

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WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

github.com 14 submissions · 13 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2023-08-27

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The Tao of Programming (1987)

www.mit.edu 17 submissions · 16 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-27

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Coroutines in C (Simon Tatham, 2000)

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk 18 submissions · 16 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2024-02-25

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Little book about OS development (2015) [pdf]

littleosbook.github.io 10 submissions · 10 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2025-03-21

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The Art of Command Line (2015)

github.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2022-11-24

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Build Your Own Text Editor

viewsourcecode.org 12 submissions · 11 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-01 Resurfaced 2022-11-13

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Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)

jroweboy.github.io 11 submissions · 11 people · 8.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-08

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Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)

norvig.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 15.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2021-02-22

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Go by Example

gobyexample.com 10 submissions · 10 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-03 Resurfaced 2022-05-07

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Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)

antirez.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2024-10-09

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Git for Computer Scientists

eagain.net 12 submissions · 11 people · 17.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2021-06-13

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Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

jakevdp.github.io 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-08 Resurfaced 2017-10-25

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Practical Common Lisp (2005)

www.gigamonkeys.com 9 submissions · 7 people · 19.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-29

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Railway Oriented Programming

fsharpforfunandprofit.com 10 submissions · 9 people · 9.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2023-08-18

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To become a good C programmer (2011)

fabiensanglard.net 7 submissions · 7 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-08 Resurfaced 2021-08-01

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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

learnyouahaskell.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2018-08-21

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Functional programming jargon in plain English

github.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2022-07-01

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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)

brandon.invergo.net 8 submissions · 8 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-12 Resurfaced 2022-07-27

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Learn Makefiles

makefiletutorial.com 8 submissions · 7 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-06 Resurfaced 2025-06-20

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The internals of PostgreSQL

www.interdb.jp 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2025-03-03

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Write a Shell in C (2015)

brennan.io 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2024-12-26

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Learning Advanced JavaScript

ejohn.org 9 submissions · 7 people · 8.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2016-12-11

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Deep C

www.slideshare.net 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2013-10-23

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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

blog.danslimmon.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-02 Resurfaced 2025-02-07

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The Descent to C (2013)

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2021-09-01

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Beautiful Racket (2016)

beautifulracket.com 11 submissions · 9 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-05 Resurfaced 2022-05-12

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Email and Git = <3

git-send-email.io 12 submissions · 12 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2023-10-12

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Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007)

beej.us 8 submissions · 7 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-03 Resurfaced 2023-03-28

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Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP

composingprograms.com 7 submissions · 6 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-07 Resurfaced 2020-11-08

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Git from the inside out

codewords.recurse.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2022-07-03

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Linux containers in 500 lines of code

blog.lizzie.io 7 submissions · 6 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-02 Resurfaced 2022-03-10

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You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)

mywiki.wooledge.org 7 submissions · 7 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-06 Resurfaced 2024-06-15

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Common Calendrical Fallacies

yourcalendricalfallacyis.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2022-02-08

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Scala School

twitter.github.io 7 submissions · 7 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-03 Resurfaced 2016-03-11

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Unix as IDE

sanctum.geek.nz 6 submissions · 5 people · 3.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-02 Resurfaced 2020-02-27

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Htop Explained

peteris.rocks 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2024-06-28

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So you want to write your own language?

www.drdobbs.com 8 submissions · 4 people · 3.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2017-05-19

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An opinionated approach to GNU Make

tech.davis-hansson.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2022-08-21

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How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-09 Resurfaced 2025-09-29

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Design Docs at Google

www.industrialempathy.com 6 submissions · 5 people · 3.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-06

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A half-hour to learn Rust

fasterthanli.me 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2023-08-23

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Build Your Own React

pomb.us 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-20

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OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

cs3110.github.io 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-07 Resurfaced 2025-07-26

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Practical Common Lisp (2005)

www.gigamonkeys.com 9 submissions · 7 people · 19.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-29

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The missing semester of CS education

missing.csail.mit.edu 9 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2026-02-23

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Build Your Own React

pomb.us 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-20

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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

web.stanford.edu 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2025-12-08

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The XY Problem (2014)

xyproblem.info 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2025-12-04

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Candidates

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The TTY demystified (2008)

www.linusakesson.net 32 submissions · 32 people · 16.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-08-26

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The Clockwise/Spiral Rule of C declarations

c-faq.com 13 submissions · 11 people · 14.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-01

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Interactive Vim Tutorial

www.openvim.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-10-23

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A book series on JavaScript

github.com 10 submissions · 10 people · 11.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-06-25

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Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Love Debugging)

redsymbol.net 17 submissions · 17 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-08-22

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The Humble Programmer (1972)

www.cs.utexas.edu 14 submissions · 14 people · 17.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-06-17

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Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language

skilldrick.github.io 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-07

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Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)

www.redbook.io 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-06-14

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How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

samizdat.mines.edu 11 submissions · 11 people · 7.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-05-12

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On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git

sethrobertson.github.io 13 submissions · 13 people · 9.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-01-30

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Lisp Koans

github.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 11.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-11-28

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The Common Lisp Cookbook

lispcookbook.github.io 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-05-23

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Learn just a little Awk (2010)

gregable.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-09-28

Needs:5 submissions

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A Road to Common Lisp (2018)

stevelosh.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-21

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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

sysprog21.github.io 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-27

Needs:5 submissions

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A Reintroduction to JavaScript

developer.mozilla.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-05-09

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Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go

blog.jse.li 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-24

Needs:5 submissions

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Best of Vim Tips

rayninfo.co.uk 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2012-02-25

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PostgreSQL Exercises

pgexercises.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-12-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

www.jamesmolloy.co.uk 7 submissions · 7 people · 13.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2011-01-15 archived copy

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Literate Devops with Emacs Org-Mode (2014)

howardism.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-09-23

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Clojure Design Patterns

mishadoff.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-11-24

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Why Concatenative Programming Matters

evincarofautumn.blogspot.com 8 submissions · 6 people · 13.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-07-21

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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

stopa.io 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-28

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(An ((Even Better) Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

norvig.com 7 submissions · 6 people · 15.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-05-31

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Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python

www.leshenko.net 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-13

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Let's Build an MP3 Decoder

blog.bjrn.se 7 submissions · 5 people · 13.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-03-16

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Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster

phiresky.github.io 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-29

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“Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust and Reliable

redsymbol.net 4 submissions · 4 people · 10.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-20

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Common shell script mistakes (2008)

www.pixelbeat.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 11.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-12-07

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Railway-oriented programming

fsharpforfunandprofit.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-06-22

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Ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010)

blog.regehr.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-10-05

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Master Emacs in one year

github.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-19

Needs:5 submissions

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X Window System Basics

magcius.github.io 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-01-10

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Modern C [pdf]

icube-icps.unistra.fr 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-11-28

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Learn Lua in 15 Minutes

tylerneylon.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 8.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-06-30

Needs:5 submissions

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Safe ways to do things in bash

github.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-03-31

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User-defined Order in SQL

begriffs.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-08-12

Needs:5 submissions

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Fast Non-Standard Data Structures for Python

kmike.ru 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-02-05

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Git Magic

www-cs-students.stanford.edu 6 submissions · 6 people · 10.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-03-15

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