Basically just a public bookmarks list of computing articles I found interesting.

Big Picture

• The Coming Software Apocalypse
• How LinkedIn's password sloppiness hurts us all
• The Law of Leaky Abstractions
• Technical Debt
• [C++] The Problem with Programming
• There Is a Subtle Power Struggle for Control of Music Metadata
• Software disenchantment
• The Website Obesity Crisis
• A hacker stole $31M of Ether - how it happened and what it means for Ethereum
• Being Glue
• [Free Software] Car Wars
• [Video][C++] C++Now 2018: Mark Zeren "-Os Matters"
• The Art of Comments
• Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance

True Stories

• The Story of Mel
• The Infinitely Profitable Program
• The Ultimate Retaliation: Pranking My Roommate With Targeted Facebook Ads
• How Pixar's Toy Story 2 was deleted twice, once by technology and again for its own good
• My First BillG Review
• [MATLAB] The Story Behind the MATLAB Default Image
• Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?
• SJ Games vs. the Secret Service
• [Video] Defcon 18 - Pwned By the owner: What happens when you steal a hackers computer zoz part
• [Video] Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
• [UX] Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
• 10 things I learned making the fastest site in the world

Bug Hunts

• I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone
• How I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors
• The case of the 500-mile email
• STAMPing on event-stream
• How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk
• [Video][C++] Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook
• GPS Time Rollover Failures Keep Happening (But They’re Almost Done)
• How to break everything by fuzz testing
• How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

Rants

• The Night Watch
• Programming Sucks
• [regex] RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
• [PHP] PHP: a fractal of bad design
• [.psd] At this point, I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format.
• [IDL] Are FOR Loops the Embodiment of Pure Evil?
• Motherfucking Website
• Dear Developer, The Web Isn't About You
• [Video] Object-Oriented Programming is Bad
• [UX] Typing delay experiment
• Stop Using Encrypted Email
• [UX] An end to if statements presented by Computers
• I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
• Part 2: How to stop me harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site
• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Humor

• [Haskell] Typing the technical interview
• [JavaScript] I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won't Believe What Happened Next
• Shooting yourself in the foot in various programming languages
• [Java] FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition
• [JavaScript] How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
• CREATORS ADMIT Unix, C HOAX
• Our GNU/Lord and GNU/Savior
• How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable
• [Video][JavaScript] Wat
• [C] Things to commit just before leaving your job
• Telnet Song
• xmas.c

Other Stuff

• The Mathematics of the Pentium Division Bug
• The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory
• 0x5f3759df
• [regex] A regular expression to check for prime numbers
• [JPEG] Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
• [C/C++] What is the "-->" operator in C++?
• [DEC64] DEC64
• [Vim] The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth
• [Video] On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint
• [LaTeX][Vim] How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
• Prince Of Persia Code Review
• [JavaScript] Understanding Automatic Semicolon Insertion in JavaScript
• Tuple’s Pair Programming Guide
• Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
• the secret life of NaN
• A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.
• [Video] Clean Code - Uncle Bob
• Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

Blogs

• Zach Holman
• Joel on Software
• Coding Horror
• The Daily WTF
• Math ∩ Programming
• DataGenetics
• [Video] Computerphile

Books

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
• Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Numerical Computing with MATLAB by Cleve Moler
• [Vimscript] Learn Vimscript the Hard Way by Steve Losh
• Algorithms by Jeff Erickson
• The Fuzzing Book by Andreas Zeller, Rahul Gopinath, Marcel Böhme, Gordon Fraser, and Christian Holler