tlylt - Bookmarks

Websites that look nice to me

PostHog
- I like the color palette and the style

API

Nate Barbettini – API Throwdown: RPC vs REST vs GraphQL, Iterate 2018
- Quite a good comparison between the three popular choices, and conclusion is to focus on user case!

Blog

Scott Logic
- Thoughts on technology and design
The Kent C. Dodds Blog
- Web, Open Source, Testing and many more
Josh W Comeau
- CSS and frontend in general
当然我在扯淡
Gergely Orosz - The Pragmatic Engineer
- Good perspective on Tech happenings and working at Tech
Benjamin Yolken | Adventures in software engineering
antirez
Peter Bengtsson
Simon Willison’s Weblog
- (At the time of reading) great info on generative AI, especially the danger
No Idea Blog

Blockchain

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
- "OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?"
“It’s Not Possible for Me to Feel or Be Creepy”: An Interview with ChatGPT
Making Large Language Models Work For You
- Great coverage of LLM and its current state of development

Career

Get your work recognized: write a brag document
- Something that I want to start doing to keep track and review my work
Chad Fowler - The Passionate Programmer: 10 years later
A forty-year career.
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice

CLI

Command Line Interface Guidelines
- Some guidelines & principles for writing command line interfaces. Provide a good starting point to think about how to design command formats that is useful for any type of CLI-like applications
Designing a delightful command line interface - Nahid Samsami and Jeff Dickey
- Introduces "oclif", which is a command line interface framework for Node.js

Code

Aha Programming
- Interesting perspective on "Avoid Hasty Abstraction"
The wrong abstraction
- Wrong abstraction is more dangerous/costly than duplication

CSS

Frontend Libraries

Swup
- Complete, flexible, extensible and easy to use page transition library for your static web

Git

Semantic Version
- Official guide on Semantic Versioning
Manage releases with Semantic Versioning and Git Tags
- Video walkthrough on how to manage releases with Semantic Versioning and Git Tags
Why do we use "git checkout" to discard file changes?
- Magic of git checkout -- xxx
Git Hooks

GitHub Actions/Workflows

Bash scripting cheatsheet
- Always going to bump into shell scripts, might as well take note of the syntax
Shell Scripting Tutorial
- Another shell tutorial that looks legit
Git Basics - Tagging
- Tagging is an important concept to master, especially for release management
Retag a Git Tag
- Useful note when doing GitHub Action release management

Go

Go by Example
- Quick explanation with code examples
How To Use Struct Tags in Go
- Useful to understand for JSON encoding/decoding
User:GopherGuides
- Tutorials & Guides
Comprehensive Guide to Dates and Times in Go
- Handle time in Go
JSON-to-Go
- Convert JSON to Go struct

Interview

Java

Comparison Method Violates Its General Contract! (Part 1) by Stuart Marks
- Ever wondered how concepts in discrete mathematics like "reflexive, transitive and antisymmetric" can be useful in programming?
Optional by Stuart Marks
- Essentially what you need to know about Java's Optional: the origins, the caveats and usage details.
Thinking In Parallel by Stuart Marks and Brian Goetz
- Introduction and some good discussion about Java's Stream feature
Let's Get Lazy: Exploring the Real Power of Streams with Venkat Subramaniam
- Well crafted presentation that explores various concepts of "Stream" in Java. Love the energy and the humour of the speaker too.
"Change is the Only Constant”. Really? by Maurice Naftalin
- Some discussion about immutability, which is a really debatable...

Kafka

Kubernetes

How to learn Kubernetes in 2022

Knowledge Management

Unbundling Tools for Thought

Negotiation

Node

package.json is not enough
- Subtle difference between package.json and package-lock.json, and when to use npm i vs npm ci
Node’s Child Processes
- More advanced stuff about the child process module

Open-Source Guides, Software News & Events

Hunting typosquatters on npm
- Hacking based on human error
Open Source Guides
- Learn how to launch and grow OSS projects
The Art of Closing
- How to nicely close contributor PRs
Maintainer's Guide to Staying Positive
- Dealing with maintainer burnout

Software Engineering

The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- We can't escape abstraction (either writing or using it), but it leaks!
How Google sets goals: OKRs / Startup Lab Workshop
- Goal setting with OKR
OKR examples
- Some examples for engineers
The Effective Engineer | Edmond Lau | Talks at Google
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One)
How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You
The System Design Primer
- Open source collection of all things system design
A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages
StaffEng

Test

Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz
- Neat presentation on testing, examples are in Rails but applicable to any languages
Usability Testing: How to Do-It-Yourself with Steve Krug
- A good talk to convince you that usability testing is important
Usability Cafe
- A template to conduct quick user testing
Running a Remote Usability Test
- Good instructions on how to conduct remote usability testing
A/B Testing: Test Your Own Hypotheses & Prepare to be Wrong - Stuart Frisby
- Quick take on data-driven development
A/B Testing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Corey Losenegger at Madison+ UX
- A/B testing - what could go wrong?
How to add testing to an existing project
- Get started on software testing
Static vs Unit vs Integration vs E2E Testing for Frontend Apps
Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
- Explains why a small number of test users can provide quite a bit of help already!
Mutation testing by example – Junit 5, Maven and Pitest
- Mutations and killing them
Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems

The Third Web

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
- An excellent video essay on NFTs
The Third Web
- Introduction and critical discussion of the third web

Quotes

Enlightened trial-and-error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults
- Something to keep in mind when discussing over code/PR
Context, not control
Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence
Respect what came before

Writing

How to write usefully

Zzz! Those Issues

A popular logger's struggle with logging an... error!
- here, here, and here
Have you tried adding/removing a month in Golang?
- time AddDate(0, -1, 0) does not work for March. #31145

Websites that look nice to me

API

Blog

Blockchain

ChatGPT

Career

CLI

Code

CSS

Frontend Libraries

Git

GitHub Actions/Workflows

Go

Interview

Java

Kafka

Kubernetes

Knowledge Management

Newsletter

Negotiation

Node

Open-Source Guides, Software News & Events

Software Engineering

Test

The Third Web

Quotes

Writing

Zzz! Those Issues