A lesson series that explains how software works for beginners, using simple analogies such as a translator with a bicycle to illustrate communication between applications. Recent issues cover how applications talk to each other, layers versus tiers in software architecture, and the five architectural layers of information systems.
Website: https://becoming-a-programmer.ghost.io/
A video-based programming course by Casey Muratori on performance-aware programming, currently covering SIMD topics such as shuffles, unpacks and horizontal operations. Each issue links to a lesson video, a table of contents and downloadable code listings.
A Korean-language engineering blog by a search engine developer covering GPU architecture, vector compression research and personal updates. Readers get technical explainers written from a practitioner's perspective, plus occasional reflections on work and study.
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, writes personal essays on programming, online communities and the human side of technology. Recent issues cover Stack Overflow's legacy in the age of LLMs, a conference talk, reader stories, and his new TWiT show.
Technical deep dives into cryptography, post-quantum algorithms and machine learning, often with runnable code on GitHub. The author explains the underlying math and challenges common misconceptions, such as what 'provably secure' really means.
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