I needed a place to store the interesting articles that one either finds or is shared with by others. Keeping several tabs open for this purpose was just not cutting it anymore. Hence this post, which I plan to update monthly or so with whatever catches my fancy.

November 2022

• Designer Diary: Seeds of Stardew Valley - A look at the design process of the board game adaptation of Stardew Valley.

June 2022

• That XOR trick
• Generator Tricks For Systems Programmers
• A look at some of Python’s useful itertools

May 2022

• Programming book list
• Unity Focus: Making Ori and the Blind Forest
• Web Browser Engineering
• The Day Redditors Broke the Internet… Again
• An Overview of C++ STL Containers
• The Aggregate Magic Algorithms
• Writing Technical Articles

January 2022

• The best Programming books. Compiling thousands of lists and recommendations, all in one place.
• Print Quality Troubleshooting Guide
• The Web3 Fraud
• Java Code To ByteCode
• Game Engines as an Art Form — My 8+ Years of Developing and Maintaining My Own Engine
• Welcome to Spinning Up in Deep RL!

December 2021

• An oral history of Bank Python
• Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package
• Leaving MySQL
• This shouldn’t have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
• Computer Networking Introduction - Ethernet and IP (Heavily Illustrated)

November 2021

• Highlights from Git 2.34
• The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
• Twenty Sided (Game Blog)
• The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
• A* Pathfinding for Beginners
• Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros
• bbrunomoraes - Digital Artist
• Replicating Minecraft World Generation in Python
• The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire
• Learning Containers From The Bottom Up
• The Joy of Cryptography
• PHP Flexible function Naming

October 2021

• IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
• A Time-Series Analysis of my Girlfriends Mood Swings
• A Facebook Sixth Sense
• Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
• A Terminal Case of Linux
• Maybe the Spaghetti Code Conjecture is False
• Bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster
• Drive Failure Over Time: The Bathtub Curve Is Leaking
• High throughput Fizz Buzz
• Nim receives $100k in Bitcoin donations
• Left Pad NPM
• The Azimuth Project
• What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer

September 2021

• How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players using WorldQL’s spatial database
• The Rise Of User-Hostile Software
• Hacker Claims Responsibility for T-Mobile Attack – Says: “Their Security is Awful”
• Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff!
• Executives Do Not Give A Flying Fuck About “Burnout”
• Managing Steam Bandwidth During COVID-19 Pandemic

August 2021

• Reddit Interview Problems: The Game of Life
• It’s ten o’clock, do you know where your private keys are?
• 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
• My favorite papers
• Most private insurers are no longer waiving cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatment
• Machine Learning For Artists

July 2021

• How We Built r/Place
• A Brief Exposé of P-adics
• Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
• Compiling Rust is NP-hard
• Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute
• Thinking About Glue
• Why Isn’t 1 a Prime Number?
• Mito is no longer in development
• How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions
• Speeding Kills Bear

June 2021

• Your CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday
• Introduction to Machine Learning Interviews Book
• Godot Roguelike Tutorial
• A 23-Year Perfectionist Journey to Localize the Obscure ‘Bahamut Lagoon’
• Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem
• Privacy analysis of FLoC
• Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug
• How databases handle 10 million devices in high-cardinality benchmarks
• Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt
• Testing in the Twenties
• Classic Postmortem: Firaxis’ Civilization V

May 2021

• The Chemistry of Game Design
• A Teenager’s Guide to Avoiding Actual Work
• The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
• How Discord Stores Billions of Messages
• The Instagram ads Facebook won’t show you
• Neural Networks and the Backpropagation Algorithm

April 2021

• The Last Prank Before PR Ruined Everything
• How Runescape catches botters, and why they didn’t catch me
• The Computational Expressiveness of a Model Train Set: A Paperlet
• This man thought opening a TXT file is fine, he thought wrong. macOS CVE-2019-8761
• TeX Diagram Collections
• Make Generative Pixel Art in Less than 100 Lines of Code

March 2021

• Understanding Quake’s Fast Inverse Square Root
• The Pizza Chain That Became an AI Front-Runner
• How many paths of length k are there between a and b? : and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes…
• Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel
• PhD Comics
• Cold War Strategy and Resources
• Blocktober: a beautiful insight into how game worlds are built
• Opte The Internet