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Reference about Software engineering

Every link here is both Reference and about software engineering.

Hall of Fame: 44
Candidates: 62
Median span: 6.9 yrs
First seen: 2007

Strongest Hall records

44 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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How SQLite Is Tested

www.sqlite.org 23 submissions · 20 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-17

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The Twelve-Factor App

12factor.net 62 submissions · 61 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2023-10-12

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DevDocs

devdocs.io 22 submissions · 22 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2024-01-12

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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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JSON5 – JSON for Humans

json5.org 12 submissions · 11 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2024-12-08

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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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EditorConfig

editorconfig.org 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-03 Resurfaced 2023-04-22

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Non-English-based programming languages

en.wikipedia.org 16 submissions · 16 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2019-06-30

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Bash Pitfalls

mywiki.wooledge.org 11 submissions · 11 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2022-02-15

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How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File

sqlite.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2022-04-30

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Latency numbers every programmer should know

gist.github.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-07 Resurfaced 2020-10-03

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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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Unix Toolbox

cb.vu 7 submissions · 7 people · 11.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-02 Resurfaced 2020-02-19

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Piet – A programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings

www.dangermouse.net 8 submissions · 8 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2024-04-24

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Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

www.sqlite.org 9 submissions · 7 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-08 Resurfaced 2026-01-24

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PHP: The Right Way

www.phptherightway.com 8 submissions · 7 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2024-04-03

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The C4 model for visualising software architecture

c4model.com 14 submissions · 13 people · 7.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2023-10-22

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Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring

diataxis.fr 14 submissions · 14 people · 5.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-12 Resurfaced 2024-12-05

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CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs

clig.dev 12 submissions · 12 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2024-02-06

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Fossil versus Git

www.fossil-scm.org 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2026-01-12

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Yoda conditions

en.wikipedia.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2019-08-15

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JSON with Sqlite

www.sqlite.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2023-08-10

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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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Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018)

gto76.github.io 11 submissions · 5 people · 5.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2023-07-20

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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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C++ Core Guidelines

github.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2018-03-09

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End of Life of Technologies and Devices

endoflife.date 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.0 years

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

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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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TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language

toml.io 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-02 Resurfaced 2023-05-21

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ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

github.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2024-07-14

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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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Make Linux Fast Again (2019)

make-linux-fast-again.com 8 submissions · 7 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2022-06-14

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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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Google Common Lisp style guide

google.github.io 6 submissions · 5 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2024-04-15

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Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?

ziglang.org 5 submissions · 4 people · 5.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2024-01-22

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SQL Style Guide

www.sqlstyle.guide 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-11 Resurfaced 2024-11-15

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The jank programming language

jank-lang.org 8 submissions · 6 people · 2.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-07 Resurfaced 2025-07-06

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)

github.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 2.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2019-02-21

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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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Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

www.sqlite.org 9 submissions · 7 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-08 Resurfaced 2026-01-24

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Fossil versus Git

www.fossil-scm.org 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2026-01-12

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How SQLite Is Tested

www.sqlite.org 23 submissions · 20 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-17

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Candidates

Browse 62 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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Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript

github.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-01-20

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Free for Developers

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

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-19

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Microjs

microjs.com 16 submissions · 16 people · 13.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-30

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Rust Language Cheat Sheet

cheats.rs 11 submissions · 11 people · 7.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-08-30

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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

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Kubernetes Failure Stories

k8s.af 14 submissions · 14 people · 6.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-25

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Software optimization resources

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

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-19

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Appropriate Uses for SQLite

sqlite.org 7 submissions · 6 people · 10.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-02-12

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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

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The infamous SCSH Scheme shell "Acknowledgements"

www.scsh.net 13 submissions · 12 people · 17.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-08

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ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

0ver.org 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-07-08

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

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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

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No_color

no-color.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-03

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Code.nasa.gov

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

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-03

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SQLite: Outlandish Recursive Query Examples

www.sqlite.org 14 submissions · 14 people · 8.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-11-24

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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

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RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601

ijmacd.github.io 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-09-07

Needs:5 submissions

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“Bush Hid the Facts”

en.wikipedia.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 13.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-10-29

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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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Comparison of C/Posix standard library implementations for Linux

www.etalabs.net 9 submissions · 9 people · 12.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-05-10

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CalVer: Calendar Versioning

calver.org 11 submissions · 10 people · 7.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-01-06

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LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter

developer.apple.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-21

Needs:5 submissions

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A Framework for Writing Better Documentation

documentation.divio.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-03-23

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Pollen: the book is a program

docs.racket-lang.org 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-10-27

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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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Linux Network Performance Parameters Explained

github.com 15 submissions · 3 people · 5.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-06

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Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

sqlite.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-11-16

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

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Keep a Changelog

keepachangelog.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-07-28

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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

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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

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Apple Virtualization Framework

developer.apple.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-04

Needs:5 submissions

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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

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Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format

amzn.github.io 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-11-20

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Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework

mithril.js.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-01-16

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Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)

archive.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 7.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-05

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