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General

• The twelve-factor app
• Cloud Computing Patterns
• The Reactive Manifesto
• My Philosophy on Alerting
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
• Help Vampires: A Spotter’s Guide
• Readme Driven Development
• Production Readiness Checklist
• Container Training
• The GitLab Handbook
• Mattermost Handbook
• Linux From Scratch
• How DNS works
• List of Free Learning Resources In Many Languages
• Linux ate my RAM
• No Hello
• CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
• Linux Comics
• LibreSpeed – Speedtest
• Have I been pwned? – check leaked passwords and accounts
• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
• crontab.guru – The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
• The 1x Engineer
• The Grug Brained Developer – A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained

Terminal

• ShellCheck – check shell scripts for common mistakes
• Oh My Zsh – Best shell out there
• jq play – Test jq in your browser
• explain shell
• YAML Multiline – Find the right syntax for your YAML multiline strings

VIM

• VIM Adventures
• Neovim

HTTPS

• How HTTPS works
• Does my site need HTTPS?
• Never SSL – Use
• Why No HTTPS?
• Certificate Search

Version Control

• Semantic Versioning
• Calendar Versinoing
• Learn Git branching – interactive and visual tutorial
• keep a changelog
• git-flow cheatsheet
• A Visual Git Reference
• How to Write a Git Commit Message
• Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
• Udacity Git Commit Message Style Guide
• Conventional comments

Books

• Software Engineering at Google
• SRE (Site Reliability Engineerinig) Books
• Pro Git
• Computer Engineering for Babies
• Shape Up – Stop running in circles and ship work that matters

Self-Hosting

• geek-cookbook by funkypenguin
• Awesome-Selfhosted
• Perfect Media Server by Alex Kretzschmar
• Disk Prices Database

Other

• Website for Screen cleaning
• shields.io – Create shields for your projects
• Wardlery Mapping
• Wardley Maps Community Hub
• Youtube Video: The Science of Great UI
• Don’t kill apps, make them work! – Android manufacturers and their battery behaviour
• This is a motherfucking website
• cpu.land – Explaining how CPUs work
• Direct connections for Railroads in Europe

Docs

• Write the Docs
• Wiki Patterns
• The Documentation System for Software Projects – Tutorials, How-Tos, Explaination, Reference

Remote Work, Home Office

• My Five Years without Pants

Good Blog Posts/Articles

• Get to vs. Have to
• How I learned to program
• How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area
• No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
• Intellectual Loneliness
• Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard
• Certificate Authority with Raspberry Pi and Yubikey
• Unlock LUKS device with Dropbear SSH
• The Yak Shaving Series
• Running SCP Through SSH Tunnel
• Willingness to look stupid

Golang

• https://www.golang-book.com/
• Let’s Go by Alex Edwards – Learn to Build Professional Web Applications with Go
• Web Development with Go by Jon Calhoun
• goose – Database Migrations with Go

Plaintext

• Plaintext Productivity
• Plaintext Project

Markdown

• MacEdit – Markdown editor for MacOS
• Markor – Text editor for Markdown, todo.txt, plaintext, math, etc. for Android
• PanWriter – Markdown editor for macOS, Windows and Linux.

NAS OS and PaaS for your Home Server

• YunoHost
• CapRover
• PikaPods
• umbrelOS
• Coolify – An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative.
• Cloudron
• Sandstorm
• casaos
• DietPi – Minimal Debian OS for Raspberry Pi with a lot of software you can self host
• FreedomBox
• Rockstor – NAS OS focused on BTRFS
• openmediavault – NAS software based on Debian
• TrueNAS Core – NAS OS based on FreeBSD
• TrueNAS Scale – NAS OS based on Debian Linux
• Xpenology – Run Synology DSM Software on Your Own Hardware

Neat Raspberry Pi Projects

• solarwriter – Use your kindle as a portable typewriter
• PiWrite
• raspiBackup – Backup and restore your active Raspberry

Cool Hardware

• The Invisible Screen

Online Tools

• Tools for better thinking – Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems
• ToffeeShare – Share files directly from your device to anywhere
• Visual Sitemap Planner
• Read Articles without the PayWall PDF24 Tools – Free and easy-to-use online PDF tools that make you more productive.
• Photopea – Advanced browser based photo editor (Photoshop clone)

Unordered

• Bruno Simon – Crazy Portfolio Website
• The Cult of Done – YouTube
• The Cult of Done Manifesto
• Ulanzi TC001 – Pixel Clock
  • https://developer.lametric.com/icons
  • https://blueforcer.github.io/awtrix-light/#/flasher
  • Developer Roadmaps – is a community effort to create roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help guide developers in picking up a path and guide their learnings
  • Rico's cheatsheets – collection of cheatsheets
• https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-million-dollars/
• https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/