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Grab bag of links that I intend to summarize.

• Scaling Browser Automation with Puppeteer on AWS Lambda with Container Image Support
• New particle discovered - the Ridiculon
• Repository of paper airplane designs
• Prompt injection explained with video, slides, and a transcript
• How to hack Hacker News (and consistently hit the front page)
• macOS internals
• A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency
• crdt-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue
• Clocks and Causality - Ordering Events in Distributed Systems
• Pattern: Backends For Frontends
• Understanding Large Language Models
• Simply explained: how does GPT work?
• I, Pencil
• CLARK cybersecurity curriculum
• Getting more than what you've asked for: The Next Stage of Prompt Hacking
• An opinionated guide for developers getting things done using the Nix ecosystem
• The Distributed Computing Manifesto
• Getting Past 'Ampersand-Driven Development' in Rust
• Building ClickHouse Cloud From Scratch in a Year
• Open source collaborative text editors
• Distributed Systems Reading List
• Write Your Own Virtual Machine
• List of All Current TLDs
• The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic
• The Siege of Gondor
• How to write a toy JVM
• Kinematics of Reverse Angle Parking
• Eat This Much - Automatic Meal Planner
• Let's Build a Compiler
• Learning Golang - From Zero to Hero
• Get your work recognized: write a brag document
• Original Bessemer Investment Memos for Shopify
• PC Assembly Book
• One Billion Apples' Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wireless Direct Link Protocol
• Data structures and algorithms interview questions and their solutions
• Learn how to write an emulator
• A Japanese Pen Maker Anticipated the Fountain-Pen Renaissance
• Public speaking for introverts
• Applied Monotonicity: A Brief History of CRDTs in Riak
• Array with Constant Time Access and Fast Insertion and Deletion
• Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices
• Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMT) to the Rescue
• Let's Build a Compiler
• Graph2Plan: Learning Floorplan Generation from Layout Graphs
• Papers with Code
• Greatest Java apps
• How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck
• Local-first software
• Svelte and TypeScript
• Windows Explorer Through the Years
• A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster
• Old CSS New CSS
• An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
• Rust on the ESP32
• Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
• Build Your Own Text Editor
• My Business Card Runs Linux
• A Review of Consensus Protocols
• Shoelace 2.0 release: UI toolkit that works with all frameworks or none at all
• Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading
• Get Started Making Music
• Pathfinding Demystified
• Keeping Calm: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
• Learning hardware programming as a software engineer
• Build a VM step by step with Rust
• John Resig: Introducing the GraphQL Guide
• The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy
• Startup idea checklist
• Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
• Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich
• Testing Distributed Systems
• Mini HTTP Guide for Developers
• Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler
• Free and liberated e-books
• MiniCouchDB in Rust
• A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
• Reverse Engineering for Beginners
• Timekeeping in Financial Exchanges
• Inside the weird get-rich-quick world of dropshipping
• Stack Based Virtual Machines
• The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
• Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
• The Really Big One
• Principles for Naming a Brand
• Hyperscan: High-performance multiple regex matching library from Intel
• Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public
• A minimal stack based VM in C
• QuickJS JavaScript Engine
• Raft Visualization
• So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
• Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
• The Adam and Eve Story
• How to build an open source business
• Analog TV Station on ESP8266
• Adding directives to the GraphQL schema when there's no SDL
• Who Is This 'Licklider' Guy?
• Getting Started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi
• Lode Runner
• Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
• Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup
• Tinyland
• A walkthrough tutorial of TLA+ and its tools: analyzing a blocking queue
• Local area network push notifications
• The Chaos Engineering Book
• Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch
• How we use Rust in our mobile SDK
• Mozart's Infinite Riches
• Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2
• There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train
• How to do distributed locking
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
• How to write a tiny compiler
• Arguments against JSON-driven development
• Users You Don't Want
• Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit
• Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
• International Standard Paper Sizes
• Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4
• An Engineer's Guide to Stock Options
• Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
• Collaborative Software That's Wary of the Cloud
• Mergeable replicated data types - Part I
• The “menu engineers” who optimize restaurant revenue
• WebWindow
• Which Emoji Scissors Close?
• UpNext - an ePaper digital calendar for your desk
• Equity guide for employees at fast-growing companies
• How OIDC Works
• Beyond the Bitcoin bubble
• Tapster's robots are built to poke touchscreens
• Introduction and Quick Guide to GraphQL for BackEnd and FrontEnd
• A generalised solution to distributed consensus
• Falling in love with Rust
• Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 14: Nested Scopes
• Why isn't 1 a prime number?
• What I Learned from Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter
• Learn how to design large-scale systems
• Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
• A taste of CoreData - A graph framework
• My Top Free Font Superfamilies
• Building your own shell using Rust
• The China Ship
• A Primer on Database Replication
• From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
• Ways to Lie with Charts
• One Order of Operations for Starting a Startup
• Never accept a counter-offer
• URL obfuscation
• Tufte CSS
• Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online
• How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages
• The longest train journey in the world in 2021
• How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
• Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago
• What I learned running a SaaS for a year
• Verkle Trees
• What Did Sun’s OSPO Do?
• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
• Actuarial Life Table
• Hermes - Javascript engine optimized for React Native
• $1 Microcontrollers
• Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
• Paginating Requests in APIs
• Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
• Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel
• How to pick the least wrong colors
• So I took a corporation to arbitration
• Take my app ideas
• How to professionally say
• Ben Evans' presentations
• SkiftOS: Simple delightful operating system
• The Untold Story of SQLite
• Japan's Paper Culture
• Software Engineering: The Soft Parts
• Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
• A simple way to build collaborative web apps
• How to Create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel
• Turning an eInk screen into a monochrome art gallery
• Soviet Venus Images
• So you want to study mathematics
• Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
• Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs
• GitHub Issues-only project management
• Microsoft Coffee
• An Introduction to Limit Order Books
• Why Web3?
• ''Give away your Legos' and other commandments for scaling startups
• How to Write a Spelling Corrector
• When AWS Azure or GCP Becomes the Competition
• Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing
• Cryptocurrencies – An Assessment by Reserve Bank of India
• Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years
• I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2
• What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
• Overview of Consistency Levels in Database Systems
• Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings
• Unix command line conventions over time
• We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
• Mastering the Basics of Icon Design
• A future for SQL on the web
• How a Kalman filter works
• How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
• An illustrated guide to plastic straws
• OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business
• Step by step guide for building a startup: from idea to exit
• Exploring performance differences between Amazon Aurora and vanilla MySQL
• It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
• Write More but Shorter
• Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
• Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages
• How to Destroy the Earth
• Let's write a compiler
• The Prosperous Software Consultant
• Downsides of Offline First
• Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend
• A contentEditable pasted garbage and caret placement walk into a pub
• RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
• I Quit Being So Accommodating
• Papers We Love
• Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript
• Where is the CRDT for syntax trees
• A history of Hup
• Faux86: A portable
• I wouldn't invest in open-source companies
• Porting USB applications to the web. Part 1: libusb
• Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform
• A tactical guide to kickstarting a community
• Cache Poisoning at Scale
• Becoming a Startup Finance Quarterback with Eric Lesser
• The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• Build a Two-Way Pager with Lora
• Practical Transformer Winding
• How to make 'localhost' slightly less local
• Rhapsody Rabbit and Cat Concerto
• The Hot Wheels Design Studio: How a Real Car Gets Turned into a 1:64 Toy
• Positions - Profit and Loss
• The UX on this small child is terrible
• TinyPICO – tiny fully-featured ESP32 board
• Free Machine Learning crash course from Google
• Write HTML Right
• Speeding up VSCode extensions in 2022
• CAP is Only Part of the Story
• A collection of outlandish human-computer interaction papers
• Why don’t we just open the windows? Covid-19 prevention lost in translation
• Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything
• I started a paper website business
• OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
• TinyUSB: Open-source cross-platform USB Host/Device stack for embedded systems
• Nyxt 2.2.0 - the hacker's power browser
• The Beirut Bank Job
• Nim Apocrypha
• Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust
• Signed Char Lotte
• Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi
• A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels
• The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
• The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
• The First Delta Force Trainee Class
• I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
• Reverse-Engineering WebAssembly
• YC's Series A Diligence Checklist
• 'Stateless' sync using version vectors
• Create Your Own Programming Language
• Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
• Sam Altman's Startup Playbook
• Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project
• Linux Inside - How the Linux Kernel Works
• Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub
• Developer's Guide to SaaS Compliance
• How to Ship Side Projects
• IPFS and Their Gateways
• Chess Tactics Explained in Plain English
• Guide to Remote Work
• Backend for Frontend pattern
• Understanding Jane Street
• Want to Start a Startup
• How to start a startup without ruining your life
• The Art of Logging
• Effective Mockito
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• Break a mirrored volume in Windows 2008 R2
• How browsers work
• OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
• CRDTs: The Hard Parts
• Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
• Learn to write your first OS kernel
• Let's implement a Bloom Filter
• DIY Dynamic DNS with Netlify API and Bash
• Interval Tree Clocks
• Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model?
• Assholes: A Probing Examination
• WasmBoxC: Simple Easy and Fast VM-less Sandboxing
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) Book
• Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more
• How to Read a Log Scale
• How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users
• How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less
• Hard to discover tips and apps for macOS
• Digital Tools I Wish Existed
• Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler
• The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company
• Sol - a sunny little virtual machine
• A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP
• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's morning routine: Wake up 5am and 'read tons of stuff'
• Earth and Sun
• G1GC Fundamentals: Lessons from Taming Garbage Collection
• Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics
• Building Your Color Palette
• Don't Be a Sucker
• When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
• My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
• Memory Techniques from Vedic Learning
• Stock trading strategies using machine learning
• We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology
• Windows: A Software Engineering Odyssey
• Myth: Eric Brewer On Why Banks Are BASE Not ACID
• How I reclaimed 60 GB of disk space on macOS
• OS development by BlackThorn
• Catalog of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Walkthrough: Create your first VSTO Add-in for Outlook
• On being a senior engineer
• How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly
• A successful Git branching model
• Exploring How and Why Trees 'Talk' to Each Other
• A Comprehensive Study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types
• Last minute tips for YC Interviewees
• How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
• Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant
• How to Write a Computer Emulator
• Abusing AWS Lambda to make an Aussie search engine
• Differential Dataflow for Mere Mortals
• Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
• Pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi
• A half-hour to learn Rust
• Doing a Job – The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover
• LibreTexts – Free The Textbook
• Schopenhauer’s 38 Stratagems
• Open source applications for macOS
• Protect domains that do not send email
• Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
• FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store
• Microsoft Space Simulator
• The Complete GraphQL Security Guide
• Papers every developer should read at least twice
• In-Place Parallel Super Scalar Samplesort (IPS⁴o)
• Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation
• Staying on the path to high performing teams
• Gitfs: Version Controlled File System
• The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to life
• Horrible insurance kerfuffle gone good
• Finally on CBS the football matches the business cards
• Building a React Native App for Your Christmas Lights
• Data Transfer Project by Apple
• Crsql - Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite
• The Important Habit of Just Starting
• Harvard Extension School: resume and cover letter guide
• How to stay focused while working on your startup and having a 9 to 5
• 5000x faster CRDTs: An adventure in optimization
• Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes
• Becoming a CTO
• Building your color palette
• Prototyping a YC Startup Each Day
• How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers
• The Xi Text Engine CRDT
• WebAssembly Micro Runtime
• The bible of doing business with the city of New York
• Guide to JavaScript Frameworks
• The Lottery Hackers
• Creating a Collaborative Editor
• My Life in Pens
• A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes
• Bloom Filters by Example
• The Untold Story of Silk Road
• The Founder's Guide To Selling Your Company (2014)
• Local Sheriff - Browser extension to show PII leaks to third-parties
• A Mouse is a Database
• Universal Binaries Using WASM
• Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design
• Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective
• Implementing a Debugger: The Fundamentals
• The brain has a 'low-power mode' that blunts our senses
• Local First Tuple Database
• Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C
• Breaking a myth: Data shows you don't actually need a co-founder
• Visual design rules you can safely follow
• How to present to executives
• Let's Talk SkipList
• PR 101 for engineers
• Action Plan for a New CTO
• Master web development with over 9000 tricks
• Monica - open source personal CRM
• How to De-Risk a Startup
• Startups in 13 Sentences
• So Good They Can't Ignore You
• Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code
• Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux
• Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs
• The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO
• Advanced Data Structures
• Aggressive Chess Openings
• Introducing Cloudflare's IPFS Gateway
• I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets
• Data Structures Reference
• Dotfile madness
• Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
• SDSL - Succinct Data Structure Library 2.0
• The Business of SaaS
• How to teach yourself hard things
• The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson
• JVM Internals
• Big List of Naughty Strings
• Living APIs and the Case for GraphQL
• DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS
• Machine Learning Crash Course
• Tauri - Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
• Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch
• How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University - Part 3
• The Illustrated QUIC Connection
• The STRIDE Threat Model
• Google Reader
• How to be a Manager - A step-by-step guide to leading a team
• A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer
• Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
• Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver
• React from zero: a simple tutorial for React
• Advanced Distributed Systems
• USB4 Specification
• What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?
• Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures
• Palindrome Day 20200202
• Bonneville can be a tough place
• The Yoda of Silicon Valley
• CRDTs are the future
• Olaf - Acoustic Fingerprinting on the ESP32 and in the Browser
• Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq
• A crash course in just-in-time compilers
• How to validate your startup idea quickly
• How to put machine learning models into production
• OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
• Xbox Architecture
• Arpanet Part 3: The Subnet
• Build Your Own React
• SaaSy Math: A Resource of SaaS Metrics for Your Startup
• Donald Knuth was framed
• You need to be able to run your system
• Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
• A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
• Oppenheimer and the Gita
• The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans
• UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface
• Writing An Interpreter In Go
• The Lost Art of Lacing Cable
• YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
• How to write technical posts so people will read them
• Why not use GraphQL?
• How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet
• An Illustrated Guide to Masked Wrestlers
• List of open source applications for macOS
• How to Recognize the Real Senior Developer?
• Playwright CLI - Open/inspect/emulate pages
• How to say no
• Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement
• I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes
• Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks
• Designing Distributed Systems E-Book
• Do Elephants Have Souls?
• A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World
• How do startups get their content marketing to work?
• VC Starter Kit
• Learning Rust via Advent of Code
• Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction
• How Discount Brokerages Make Money
• TinyBIOS - A minimalist open-source BIOS project for fun
• The legacy of Pieter Hintjens
• Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization
• Deep learning papers reading roadmap
• 55 Pre-Launch Tips for Your Startup
• Identity Theft
• Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
• Learn TLA+
• Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1
• Mapping the unknown - Steps to map any industry
• How to disagree with someone more powerful than you
• Tips for selling your side project
• What they don't teach you about sockets