This book is the first in a series of eight volumes that contain archival forms of my published papers, together with new material.
The Art of Unix Programming
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Let’s explore the universe of programming resources together
by Quincy Larson Let’s explore the universe of programming resources together There are a lot of free programming resources out there. Here’s a list of more than a thousand free programming books. Here’s a list of hundreds of free online university c...
Denicek: Computational Substrate for Document-Oriented End-User Programming
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Notes from my Beginner Computer Literacy Class Part 1 - Alex’s Writing Journal
Helping the uninitiated navigate this brave new digital world
Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore · unix.foo
A sad look at the state of modern programming books.
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026 · GitHub
Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.
Anna’s Archive: LibGen (Library Genesis), Sci-Hub, Z-Library in one place - Anna’s Archive
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Elements of Programming
After ten years in print, our publisher decided against further printings and reverted the rights to us. Elements of Programming is now available in two forms: a free PDF and a no-markup paperback.
AI Suggestions Homogenize Writing Toward Western Styles and Diminish Cultural Nuances
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LLM Wikis
AI-compiled knowledge bases
Future of Programming
Jared Goering on Twitter / X
OpenWiki: Open Source Repo Documentation for Coding Agents
Wiki Memory
The Obsidian heads were right.
The Definitive Guide to Understand Anything: Turning Code and Knowledge Into Graphs That Teach
Karpathy's LLM Wiki as Agent Memory - Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
Kanjun 🐙 on Twitter / X
Hiring and firing a DBA
LLMs and performative productivity
Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub
We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design
Agents want flexible schemas