Resources
Table of Contents
This is a collection of links, books, resources of any form that I find useful and want to share. If you think something should be on that list and it isn’t, send an email.
Articles I Enjoyed Reading
If you look at the bottom of a page on this blog, you’ll see a selection of articles from blogs I follow generated by openring. Here is a manual list of blog posts and articles I appreciate and recommend to read.
- The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by Phillip Rogaway
- Making God - The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism by Emily F. Gorcenski
- On Being Useful by Bert Hubert
Education/Courses
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education. A class at MIT teaching you the rarely covered computing ecosystem literacy. Read about their motivation. Also take a look at Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating by Jan Schaumann
- pwn.college. An education platform with CTF style challenges focused on computer security maintained by folks at Arizona State University.
Public Domain Works
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ – books
- https://librivox.org/ – audio books
- http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/de/index.html – radio
- https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html – art, images
- https://archive.org/details/americana – American Libraries
C Programming
- The Development of the C Language. Great paper about how C came to be. From B to NB (New B) to C. How it reuses different concepts from previous languages such as B and BCPL
- Talk by Ilja van Sprundel 50 years of C, the good, the bad and the ugly
- The Book about C: The C Programming Language
Rust
- The Rust Book
- Rust by Example
- The Rustonomicon (Unsafe Rust)
- The Rust Reference
- The Little Book of Rust Macros
- Rust API Guidelines
Essential Browser Addons
Essential list of browser addons for surfing the web today.
- uBlock Origin (Firefox, Chrome): Block ads and tracking scripts. It can be “install and forget” or you can dig into the inner workings and have finegrained control.
- ClearURLs (Firefox, Chrome): Remove tracking parameters from URLs automatically. Good for you and good for people you send links. I consider it rude when I get links with tracking parameters in them.
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Status update, July 2024
Hi! This month wlroots 0.18.0 has been released! This new version includes a fair share of niceties: ICC profiles, GPU reset recovery, less black screens when plugging in a monitor on Intel, a whole bunch of new protocol implementations, and much more. Thanks…
via emersion July 16, 2024Whose CIDR is it anyway?
A look at CIDR block ownership from a RIR-, country-, and organization level. Originally presented at RIPE88.
via Signs of Triviality June 12, 2024How and why to make a /now page on your site
Background I used to wonder what my friend Benny Lewis was doing. He has a website and social media accounts, but neither gave an overview of what he’s doing now. Then I realized some people might wonder the same about me. So in 2015, I made a /now page on my…
via Derek Sivers blog May 18, 2024Generated by openring