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Resource Dump (Feb 2025)

MFW I have 1 major task at work, 4 new project ideas, 2 abandoned projects, Leetcode practice, multiple social and personal engagements, and 20 bookmarked resources I haven’t gotten around to fully exploring.

Intro#

Hi, here is a bunch of random stuff I’ve bookmarked over the last year because I found it cool. In no particular order. With a quick summary for your convenience.

💽 Operating Systems / Linux / Networking#

Julia Evans’ Wizard Zines
Extremely high-quality, digestible comics about Linux and networking concepts.

SadServers
Leetcode for sysadmins. Very fun and nicely made.

Julia Evans’ Experiments
Sandboxes to understand and play around with DNS configurations, nginx, and other concepts.

Julia Evans’ personal blog
A mish-mash of entries about operating systems, Linux, networking, and other software topics.

Geeksforgeeks - Memory Layouts of C Programs
I’ve found Geeksforgeeks content to be generally high-quality, engaging, and easy to understand.

⌨️ Shell Scripting#

6 Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts
A very short article with neat tips for shell scripting that seem kinda trivial and yet make a world of a difference.

Unix shell script tactics - best practices style guide
More coverage on shell scripting tactics and best practices.

🎁 Startups / Product#

The Product-Market Fit Game
Very nicely written by one of the founders of PostHog, interesting insights for all audiences.

☁️ Cloud / Infra / SaaS#

LocalStack
Run AWS entirely from your local machine.

Gitpod
Never manually set up a dev environment again - this is more geared towards organizations but I think it’s very neat.

Jam.dev
Making bug reports easier.

🎨 UI / UX#

Neobrutalism
Nice retro UI components. They don’t work out-of-the-box for mobile apps but I managed to adapt them easily for React Native by asking Claude AI nicely.

React Native Paper
High-quality React Native UI components for your cross-platform mobile apps.

🌐 Open Source#

Open Source Guide
Everything you need to know about open source, from licensing to contributing.

Good First Issue
A curated list of beginner-friendly issues from popular open source projects. Makes it easy to get started with contributing to open source.

💼 Interview Prep#

Deep-ML
Leetcode for Machine Learning.

Competitive Programmer’s Handbook
A different (some might say: the original) take on Leetcode.

Microsoft - Engineering Fundamentals Playbook
An exhaustive list of guidelines and best practices covering every aspect of industry-standard software projects.

LeetCode was HARD until I Learned these 15 Patterns
Nice illustrations for common Leetcode patterns.

onsites.fyi
Glassdoor for FAANG, but more intimate and detailed.

Thanks 4 reading !#