atmanos’ nerd resources

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Happy coding!

• Software Development/Generic Comp Sci:

  Books

  • General
    • “Computer Science Distilled” - Wladston Filho
      • Great intro to comp sci, accessible to entry-level programmers, but still useful for programmers as a refresher and teaches solid fundamentals.
    • “Clean Architecture” - Robert C. Martin
      • Software architecture
    • “Clean Code” - Robert C. Martin
      • Tells you how to write the title of the book.
    • “Head-First Design Patterns” - Eric Freeman
      • Useful book on design patterns in object oriented languages. Book is focused solely on Java, but easily understood if you have experience with C# or something else like it.
      • Illustrations are straight out of a high school health textbook, but there’s good information in there.
  • Language-Specific
  • • “The C Programming Language” - Kernighan and Ritchie
      • The book on C. Written by the one of the creators of the language.
      • Updated for ANSI C in the 2nd edition.
    • “Introduction to 64 Bit Assembly Programming for Linux and OS X” - Ray Seyfarth
      • Good book on x86-64 assembly.
    • “A Tour of C++" - Bjarne Stroustrup^R
  • Technology-Specific
    • “Programming Internet Email” - David Wood
      • Covers SMTP, MIME, IMAP, POP3, everything you need to program email.
    • “The Blockchain Developer” - Elad Elrom
      • Don't go making NFTs now, but it's a cool concept and technology.

  Industry

  • Hiring Without Whiteboards
    • List of companies that do not use leetcode-esque CS trivia in their interview process. If you find that kind of thing toxic and non-representative of real-world software dev, these companies might be for you.
  • cassidoo's "Getting a Gig"
    • Small but good overview of tips to help you get a job in software
    • Has a fair amount of resources, e.g. guides, problem sets, mock interviews, etc.

  Ideas

  • community-project-ideas
    • Amazing list of projects to do, with documentation that you could either follow or use along the way.
    • Covers a wide variety of languages and frameworks.
  • Akshat4112's 1000 Project Ideas
    • Does what it says on the tin, 1000 project ideas.

  Learning

  • Scrimba
  • • Online courses for webdev/frontend development.
    • Interactive editor, live preview, all the good stuff.
    • "Costs" $30, but you can get a no-questions refund if you request it within a month.
  • Codeacademy
  • • Courses on a wide variety of languages/frameworks.
    • "Free" but only for a couple of courses. I believe most beginner courses are free, so not a bad place to start.

  Networking:

  • Books

    • “Networking: A Beginners Guide” - Bruce Hallberg ¹
      • Good fundamentals, but a fair bit of fluff.
    • “Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, Architectures” - Douglas Comer
      • The book for TCP/IP, no question.
    • “Interconnections” - Radia Perlman
    • • Leading text on network theory and practice.
      • Covers tons of different protocols and is written surprisingly approachably.

    Programming

    • DWise1’s sockets programming site
      • Amazing resource on sockets programming (in C, but the concepts are universal)
      • Accesible to entry-level. Explains basic TCP/IP concepts, some OSI layers, etc.
      • Written before wide adoption of IPv6, so it only focuses on IPv4. Still very useful in my opinion.
      • He lists some great books and resources here

  • Tinkering

    • Cisco
      • List of Cisco IOS images
        • If the link ever dies, I have all of these backed up, just ask.
    • GNS3
    • • Great graphical network simulator. Can use Cisco IOS or any other internetworking .bin.
      • Just a good tool to have if you're trying to get experience with industry tech, without shelling out tons of cash.

    Learning

    • IETF Datatracker
    • • Front-end for the IETF database. All RFCs listed and searchable, as well as their current status (obsoleted, best current practice, etc.)
      • No paywalls as far as I'm aware.
    • Publicly Available ISO/IEC standards
    • • 200 free ISO/IEC standards in accordance with JTC 1
      • Contains important ones like ISO/IEC 7498, but most standards are still heavily expensive.
      • Here's a link if you want to torrent pay-locked standards^T (ISO/IEC/GOST/ASTM/so on)

• Software

  • CyberChef

    • Terribly underrated little webtool, stumbled across it one time and it’s amazing.
    • Tons of different operations
      • encoding
      • formatting
      • encryption/decryption
      • networking tools
      • beautify/minify
      • tons of other very useful stuff that’s nice to have in a webapp.

    VSCode

    • Great IDE, highly extensible with a lot of great plugins
    • They run a great youtube channel where they showcase neat VSCode features, tutorials, and other interesting tech stuff.

  • regex101

    • Great regex webapp for experimenting, testing, and replacing.
    • Has dynamically generated explanations of the regex string, useful for beginners.

    ImgOps

    • Great webapp for image operations.
    • Simple transforms, reverse search, EXIF extract, etc.

    Neovim

    • Better version of vim.

  • Suckless

    • Small programs that do one thing; and do it well.
    • Has a list of other small programs that “rock”, which is nice.

    tcc

    • Tiny C Compiler
    • Can reach up to 9x faster than gcc²