Robert Williams

• Road To Zig - Andrew Kelley (video); C with all the problems fixed :)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g
• Social network that gives you only 100 posts... for life
  https://minus.social
• The Quiet World. Poem by Jeffrey McDaniel
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437786
• Agency: It's Powerful and Unnerving
  https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/agency
• Space Opera Cliches
  http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/towards-a-taxonomy-of-cliches-.html
• The Unix Philosophy (see pg. 4)
  https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1899/mode/2up
• What problems to solve (Richard Feynman)
  http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/problems
• Schlep Blindness (Paul Graham) Don't ask: What problem should I solve? Ask: What problem do I wish someone else would solve for me?
  http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
• Boring Technology is Better
  http://boringtechnology.club/
• Round Robin Publishing
  https://roundrobin.pub/
• Book: Land of Lisp (scroll down, way down :)
  http://landoflisp.com/
• If Microsoft developed a car :)
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464524
• Linux DRM Modesetting Examples (Well Documented!)
  https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/tree/master/drm-howto/modeset.c
• Food Preparation Hacks (video)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUJQqljHzI
• Things I've Learned as a Senier Engineer
  https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nmodyl/drunk_post_things_ive_learned_as_a_sr_engineer/
• Overkill Objects for Everyday Life
  https://neil.computer/notes/overkill-objects-for-everyday-life/
• The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly: 21 seconds
  https://scatter.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/the-shortest-possible-game-of-monopoly-21-seconds/
• Just Use Email: Instant Messaging Is No Longer Instant
  https://www.justuseemail.com/instant-messaging-is-no-longer-instant/
• How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQccNdwm8Tw
• How the Internal Combustion Engine Works
  https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/
• How to Criticize Computer Scientists
  https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.criticize.html
• A Short Story for Engineers
  https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEngineers.htm
• The computer revolution hasn't happened yet: Alan Kay speaks about his vision of how far computing can go
  https://catonmat.net/videos/the-computer-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet
• Reflections on Trusting Trust: lecture about how it's nearly impossible to fully trust software, even when you have the source code
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210
• Hilarious fictional book about an alternate reality that started diverging from our own in the 1960s
  http://unsongbook.com/
• How do you measure an employee's performance?
  https://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-thanks-or-no-thanks.html
• Be careful when designing APIs because they define ABIs. Tales about the stdio ABI.
  https://fingolfin.org/blog/20200327/stdio-abi.html
• Secondary earners are penalized when filing taxes jointly.
  https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=shlj
• Standardized tests are written by lawyers and psychologists.
  http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/13/13956.html
• Give your team members responsibilities, not tasks. That communicates trust which leads to better outcomes.
  http://adamard.com/little_tasks.html
• Build an OS for the Raspberry Pi from the ground up.
  https://github.com/dddrrreee/cs140e-20win/
• The dichotomy of contentment and ambition
  https://jjude.com/contentment-and-ambition
• You don't know a subject well until you've written about it.
  https://limitlesscuriosity.com/the-purpose-of-writing/
• As the news becomes more polarized, it contains less information
  https://www.turningchaos.com/essays/no-surprises-here
• You can improve your sense of meaning and fulfillment by better choosing how you spend your attention
  https://mythirdbrain.substack.com/p/how-i-spend-my-attention