- https://play.golang.org
- https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
- http://oncrashreboot.com/elegant-best-pelican-theme-features
- https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/tree/master/tipue_search
- https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/tree/master/sitemap
- https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/tree/master/post_stats
- https://listjs.com
To improve clarity I have moved many of the software engineering resources to https://blog.john-pfeiffer.com/software-engineer-favorites/
People Manager resources moved to https://blog.john-pfeiffer.com/engineering-people-managers/
History
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-the-man-who-could-have-been-bill-gates-pt-2/id1355212895?i=1000443856131 (Gary Kildall)
- https://www.cake.co/conversations/g4CP6zJ/the-secret-call-to-andy-grove-that-may-have-helped-apple-buy-next
- https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/01/chapter-1-part-2-netscape-the-big-bang/
- https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/03/chapter-1-supplemental-1-an-interview-with-lou-montulli/
- https://www.cake.co/conversations/VXHSjBG/the-untold-origin-story-of-ebay-that-i-lived-and-the-times-that-could-have-killed-it
- https://tedium.co/2020/12/15/altavista-history-digital-dot-com-domain-name/
- https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2022/12/the-del-icio-us-story-with-joshua-schachter/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849977 (Etsy succeeded in spite of itself)
- https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142065 (Werner Vogels about AWS 2006)
- https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping
Miscellaneous Great Web Sites and Articles
- https://danluu.com
- https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/ ("I could build that in a weekend") https://charity.wtf
- https://urchin.biz (pre-history of google analytics)
- https://kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/
- https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/one-bite-at-a-time-partitioning-complexity/1716882961677894
- https://dave.cheney.net/paste/the-past-present-and-future-of-go2.pdf QCon Shanghai
Tools
- https://bitbucket.org Source code version control
- https://bitbucket.org/product/features/pipelines Free CI/CD
- https://github.com Source code version control
- https://circleci.com (free continuous integration)
- https://www.namecheap.com (best domain name registrar)
- https://letsencrypt.org (free SSL certificates)
- https://www.heroku.com (free and easy application hosting)
- https://archive.org (the backup of the internet)
- https://webpagetest.org (website speed test with slow devices)
- https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo (geo ip lookup)
- https://mxtoolbox.com/NetworkTools.aspx
- https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (detect if your email/accounts have been hacked)
- https://panopticlick.eff.org (detect if your browsing is identifiable to servers/advertisers)
- https://www.dnsleaktest.com (detect if your VPN is not supporting DNS queries)
- https://ipleak.net/ (detect if your VPN is not fully private)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18466787 List of strings to use in QA testing
- http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/105/ (list of LinkedList problems)
Resources on Leadership and Management and Business
Product Management Resources
- https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-nature-of-product-marty-cagan#details
- https://www.lennyspodcast.com/mastering-product-strategy-and-growing-as-a-pm-maggie-crowley-toast-drift-tripadvisor/ PM fundamentals
- https://www.lennyspodcast.com/the-essence-of-product-management-christian-idiodi-svpg/
- https://stripe.com/guides/atlas/building-a-great-pm-org
- https://sfelc.com/podcasts/optimizing-the-product-trio-saumya-bhatnagar-involve-ai
- https://sfelc.com/podcasts/reduce-friction-and-create-better-alignment-between-product-and-engineering-hubert-palan-productboard
Economics, Startups and VCs, and Business Articles
- https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/04/28/526051566/episode-553-the-dollar-at-the-center-of-the-world
- https://www.npr.org/2022/07/21/1112752575/summer-school-2-gdp-what-counts
- https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/861331371/stocks-are-up-but-the-economys-down
- https://money.howstuffworks.com/question398.htm (How does VC work)
- https://hbr.org/1998/11/how-venture-capital-works
- https://vcstarterkit.substack.com/p/how-vcs-make-money
- https://www.marketplace.org/2017/09/07/venture-vocabulary/
- https://medium.com/the-saas-growth-blog/from-pre-seed-to-series-c-startup-funding-rounds-explained-f6647156e28b
- https://bothsidesofthetable.com/how-much-should-you-raise-in-your-vc-round-and-what-is-a-vc-looking-at-in-your-model-3b79ff436b63
- https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/
- https://alexdanco.com/2020/02/07/debt-is-coming/
- https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7333.html Four functions of Markets (with a political bent)
- https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-tech-makes-their-billions-2020/
- https://reactionwheel.net/2021/11/your-boards-of-directors-is-probably-going-to-fire-you.html
Startups and VCs Podcasts
- https://nav.al/long-term Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
- https://nav.al/accountability-leverage Embrace accountability to get leverage
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/thisweekin-startups/advice-biggest-mistakes-founders-startups-jerry-colonna
- https://timharford.com/2019/12/cautionary-tales-ep-5-buried-by-the-wall-street-crash/
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/thisweekin-startups/steve-jurvetson-dfj-tesla-spacex
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/glennkelman-redfin-pejmannozad-pear
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/bill-gurley-benchmark
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/andy-rachleff-ceo-of-wealthfront-twist-e335/
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/e1002-wealthfront-ceo-co-founder-andy-rachleff-on-hitting-escape-velocity-at-wealthfront-pioneering-self-driving-money-for-consumers-shares-insights-on-product-building-in-1980s-vs-today/
- https://exponent.fm/episode-194-back-on-spotify/ Spotify surviving and thriving as a platform
- https://investlikethebest.libsyn.com/ben-thompson-platforms-ecosystems-and-aggregators-invest-like-the-best-ep176
- https://investlikethebest.libsyn.com/john-collison-growing-the-internet-economy-invest-like-the-best-ep178
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-sacks-how-to-operate-a-saas-startup/id1154105909?i=1000528710000 Invest like the best on operating a SaaS
- https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/marc-andreessen/
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/twist-51-with-joel-spolsky-2/
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/joel-spolsky-ceo-of-stack-exchange-co-founder-at-fog-creek/ (episode 365)
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/e918-stack-overflow-ceo-co-founder-joel-spolsky-shares-lessons-growing-his-groundbreaking-qa-site-to-100m-monthly-visitors-insights-on-leading-pivoting-selling-trello-engaging-with-vcs-becom/
- https://investlikethebest.libsyn.com/stewart-butterfield-we-dont-sell-saddles-here-founders-field-guide-ep-43
- https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/episode-2-instagram Instagram acquisition analysis
- https://producthabits.com/my-billion-dollar-mistake/ (Getting "Foundered", become a good PM)
- https://livingsmarterjewish.org/investing-smart-ways-to-grow-your-money-with-eli-fried-kosher-money/
- https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/howard-marks/ Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- https://thisweekinstartups.com/episodes/WLaoob3PtWD Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson grew Twilio to $1Bn
- https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/77657652/lawson-how-to-build-a-platform?tab=shownotes Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy: Jeff Lawson
- https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/jay-simons/ The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves
- https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-atlassian-mike-cannon-brookes-and-scott-farquhar/
- https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/54685008/leone-clear-and-simple?tab=shownotes Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy: Doug Leone - Lessons from a Titan
Misc
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21366324 Viktor Frankl: Why believe in others
- https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-makes-relationships-thrive/
- https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-judd-apatow-on-vulnerability-and-laughter/
- https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-on-words-actions-dehumanization-and-accountability/
- https://simonsinek.com/podcast-episodes/the-one-with-brene-brown/
- https://lexfridman.com/manolis-kellis/ (Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics)
- https://maximumfun.org/episodes/depresh-mode/six-things-you-need-to-know-for-your-mental-health/
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