About

This repository contains all of the resources I like for technology and programming.

All of these notes are written in org-mode. I prefer org-mode for note taking over markdown.

Table of Contents

• Internet
• Civic Technology
• Career
• News
• Emacs

Internet

General Word Wide Web things. Mainly a focus on indie web stuff. I also just really miss Geocities.

• IndieWeb
  • Community of individual personal websites and more! Check it out
• Neocities
  • My personal website host. Do you miss Geocities? Do you miss janky cool websites? Check it out
• Restorativland
  • Made by the creator of Neocities, Kyle Drake, it is a project to save shut down web ruins (like Geocities - did I mention that I miss Geocities?)

Civic Technology

Using your skills to help the government and people!

• Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell
  • Civic Technology is a young field and Cyd Harrell writes all that she knows (which is quite a lot) in this book
  • Basically if you want to get into Civic Technology, read this
• Civic Tech Field Guide
• Code for America
  • A non profit that connects programmers with local governments to complete tech projects
• Repair Cafe
  • Free meeting places about repairing things
• Better Foundations by Genevieve Gaudet, Service Designer, Nava PBC
  • A short YouTube video (~9 min) that goes into the beliefs and approaches needed in order to be successful in Civic Technology

Career

Various resources I’ve used to further my career.

Coding Interviews

• Tech Interview Handbook by yangshun
• Interviews by kdn251
• Coding Interview University by jwasham

Books

• The Tech Resume by The Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz)
  • If you don’t want to buy the book, there’s also the original pdf that the book is based off of

News

Ways that I keep up with the industry.

Websites

General

• Hacker News
  • If anything significant happens in the tech industry, I can guarantee you’ll find it on HN.
• Dev.to
  • A social network, just for programming.

Newsletters

Javascript

• Javascript Weekly

Emacs

A lisp personal computer emulator that’s a pretty solid code editor.

• Mastering Emacs
  • Personal blog about all things related to Emacs. Many articles on here are absolutely essential for learning Emacs.
• Reading Guide by Mastering Emacs
  • A reading guide by Mastering Emacs on how to get better at Emacs
• Planet Emacslife
  • News aggregator for Emacs. Any article about Emacs you can find here.
• Awesome Emacs
  • Awesome list for Emacs. A great place to find some new plugins.