Computers

Software engineering

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

Usability

• Cool URIs don’t change
• http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html
• http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040503.html
• http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040510.html
• http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html
• http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020512.html
• http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050523.html

Blog / Wiki packages

• http://www.oddmuse.org/
• http://fromage.sourceforge.net/

Software

• http://www.kernel.org/ for the only operating system you’ll ever want
• http://www.slackware.com/ for the most “classic Unix” Linux distribution
  • Slackware 12.0 (or maybe it was 11.0) dropped GNOME, so to compile handy tools like grip and gthumb, you need something like:
    • dropline GNOME
    • Freerock GNOME
    • GWARE
• View Mail (VM) for Emacs
• MPlayer
• Linux is not Windows
• Enhanced CTorrent - super simple BitTorrent command-line interface
• Sendmail / SSL
  • http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto-224543/
  • http://aput.net/~jheiss/sendmail/tlsandrelay.shtml
• jhead, a tool for working with EXIF data in JPEG files

Networking

• Wiring for a Third Phone Line

Games

• http://www.ddrfreak.com/

Philosophy

• Koans
  • Hacker Koan from Wikipedia
  • Some AI Koans
  • Rootless Root – the Unix Koans of Master Foo
  • Some AI Koans
• The Tao of Programming
• The Unix Power Classic
• Jamie Zawinski on tabs versus spaces
• Perl versus Python

Other

• http://www.hpecodewars.org/
• Hard Drive Recovery