This page collects some links to interesting things I found while surfing the net. The order is random, the goal is to put the most recent things first and group stuff by topic but don't take it for granted. I try to add a small comment after each link in order to provide some context about it.

Articles

• The Transistor, Part 1: Groping in the Dark
  Three-part history on the transistor. Very well written and instructive.

• How Information Got Re-Invented
  The story behind Shannon's theory of information

• ZEVS, The russian 82 Hz ELF transmitter

Guides, Lectures and Books

• The art of listening

• What is Nmap and How to Use it – A Tutorial for the Greatest Scanning Tool of All Time

• A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

• A Vim Guide for Advanced Users

• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

• linux-insides
  A book-in-progress about the linux kernel and its insides.

• Lessons in Electric Circuits

• What's the best lossless image format?

• Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity
  "It is not enough to think about difficult problems one way. You need to think about them forwards and backward. Inversion often forces you to uncover hidden beliefs about the problem you are trying to solve."

• LTspice: Importing and Exporting WAV & PWL Text Files

• Choose your browser carefully

• How GPS works
  Very well done. A work of art. The other explanations by the same author are great.

• How to learn a language (and stick at it)

• How Not To Sort By Average Rating
  An insightful guide on article rating. See also the related discussion on HN

• Common Probability Errors to Avoid

• Calculus Made Easy

• The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion

• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
  List of books in case I'm in search for something to read

• How NOT to Measure Latency
  Interesting overview presentation about how to measure latency and the proper usage of percentiles.

• Analog Electronics Tutorials | Analog Devices
  Great tutorials by Analog Devices about analog electronics using opamps and the like.

• How to Buy Gifts That People Actually Want
  The title speaks for itself. The relative discussion on HN is also full of useful comments.

• How to be Indistractable
  "When you notice yourself feeling distracted, pause and ask yourself what you're feeling. Are you worried? Are you afraid? Then go one step deeper. What caused the sensation? How does it feel in your body?"
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• Digital Camera Know-Hows
  Albeit the technical information is dated this tutorial is still to the point.

• How to win at monopoly and piss off your friends

• OpenBSD Jumpstart
  Short presentation for first-time OpenBSD users

• Bipolar Translinear Circuits, lecture by Barrie Gilbert

• PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP using Python

• How To Understand Things

• Tutorial Examples of Bad Circuit Design at CMOSedu.com

• 19 Tips For Everyday Git Use

• Cron Best Practices

• A Guide to Bayesian Statistics

• Using imagemagik to make sharp web-sized photographs
  You may never know when this may be useful.

• Digitizing analog circuits containing op amps using Wave Digital Filters

• Hostnames!
  A source of inspiration for computer hostnames

Programming

• Bootlin – Embedded Linux and kernel engineering

• Tcl Programming/Tk examples - Wikibooks

• Real World OCaml

• OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful

• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

• Writing a Simple Operating System - from Scratch

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

• Practical Makefiles, by example

• A Quick and Easy Guide to tmux

• How to interpret complex C/C++ declarations
  Useful guide for reading C/C++ code.

• Game Programming Patterns

• On open-sourcing libraries
  

• Algorithmic Composition: A Gentle Introduction to Music Composition Using Common LISP and Common Music
  A book on common lisp and music. The best combo you can get!

• Bit Twiddling Hacks
  List of code snippets for clever bit operations

Lisp

• Why Lisp?
  Getting started with Lisp development

• A Road to Common Lisp / Steve Losh

• Modern, functional Common Lisp: Myths and tips

• Static type checking in the programmable programming language (Lisp)

• Learn Lisp The Hard Way

• Common lisp naming conventions