Useful Things

A list of things I find myself always referring to, or I SHOULD always refer to 😄

The source of this is a Gist and is located here

Architecture/Design

Bash

Cloud/DevOps

Command Line / Linux

Computer Science Fundamentals

Datastores

Editors

Functional Programming

Java

Management - Engineering and Project

News / Mailing Lists

  • Hacker News - Still the best source of engineering related news I’ve found.
  • Pointer.io - Twice weekly reading club for software engineers. Very good curated content blending technical and “soft” topics.
  • DevOps Subreddit - I haven’t found many subreddits very useful in the engineering realm, but the DevOps one is very good and has a welcoming community.
  • ExperiencedDevs Subreddit - No “how do I make a webapp?” questions. Very good technical information, career advice, and team advice.

Node.js

Productivity Tools

  • Team Gantt - Simple to use planning tool to get a good idea of the overall scope and timeline of a project. Nothing overly complicated. Way easier and better than something like OmniPlan/MS Project or even Asana.
  • Mermaid - Great diagramming tool with ability to have text source files
  • Markmap - JS based mindmaps based on Markdown.
  • DBDiagram - Make DB diagrams with ascii source in JSON

Python

Source Control

  • gitqlite - Query git repos as if they were sql databases

Security

Web

Misc