A Curated Reading List

This is a delicous distillation. It is a work in progress.

Table of Contents

1. Aritcles to read
2. Books
3. Recommended articles
4. Blogs to frequent

Articles to read

• Why you should never use hash functions for message authentication
• Storing Passwords Securely
• Classic Minesweeper
• Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World
• ARTICLES ABOUT "ELECTRICITY"
• API Design
• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers
• J Essays
• Effective Emacs
• Lesson: Generics (Updated)
• Top Down Operator Precedence
• Top-Down operator precedence parsing
• History of Lisp
• The Universal Design Pattern
• Mocks Aren't Stubs
• Examples of Malicious Computer Programs
• Zen and the Art of the Internet
• Trygve/MVC
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
• Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix

Books

• Learning J by Roger Stokes
• Pro Git by Scott Chacon
• Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel
• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky
• On Lisp by Paul Graham

Recommended articles

• Black Hatted
• Learn the essentials of debugging
• Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie
• HTG Explains: Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting
• Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
• Confessions of a Recovering Lifehacker
• More, a CSS Compiler
• How to Learn Emacs
• The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life
• A Brief Life of Fitzgerald
• WordPress Plugin: How do I avoid “tight coupling”?
• Testing legacy code
• Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas - Reading Code
• You and Your Research
• Great Hackers
• The Nature of Lisp

Blogs to frequent

• SteveStreeting.com
• Jon Skeet: Coding Blog
• Stevey's Blog Rants
• Joel on Software
• Coding Horror
• Paul Graham
• Fabulous Adventures in Coding
• Peter@Norvig.com