Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)(users.ece.utexas.edu)

400 points by udev4096 3 years ago | 229 comments

A plain web page listing Rob Pike's five rules of programming on measurement, simple algorithms, and data structures, with notes on related maxims.

Common Bugs in Writing (2021)(cs.columbia.edu)

178 points by pablode 3 years ago | 87 comments

Cool Science Tricks (2005)(daveroot.neocities.org)

105 points by tomthe 3 years ago | 9 comments

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)(asc.ohio-state.edu)

341 points by ent101 2 years ago | 136 comments

Excerpt from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" where Feynman recounts recovering from burnout by playing with physics, starting with a wobbling plate.

Infrequently Asked Questions in Comp.lang.c (1999)(seebs.net)

60 points by hummusandsushi 3 years ago | 33 comments

Tcl Programming/Tk Examples(en.wikibooks.org)

45 points by martinlaz 3 years ago | 8 comments