Feature Toggles (Martin Fowler article) martinfowler.com ↗

Article by Pete Hodgson on martinfowler.com categorising types of feature toggles.

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Understanding Formal Methods ↗Learning & books
Jean-Francois Monin's concise survey of formal specification and verification concepts and tools.
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Higher-Order Perl ↗Learning & books
Mark Jason Dominus's book on functional programming techniques in Perl.
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What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory ↗Learning & books
Ulrich Drepper's paper on memory hierarchy and caches for programmers.
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Effective Cycling ↗Learning & books
A book by John Forester teaching vehicular cycling techniques for riding in traffic.
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Drawing with MetaPost ↗Learning & books
Toby Thurston's guide to drawing graphics with the MetaPost language.
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture ↗Learning & books
Martin Fowler's book cataloguing enterprise application design patterns.
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Professional Linux Kernel Architecture ↗Learning & books
A book by Wolfgang Mauerer describing Linux kernel internals.
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications ↗Learning & books
A book by Martin Kleppmann on the architecture of data systems.
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Careless People ↗
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
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The Expanse ↗
A science fiction novel series later adapted for television.
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The Mythical Man-Month ↗
Fred Brooks' classic book of essays on software project management.
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Wikipedia
A free collaborative online encyclopedia.
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Blindsight ↗
A science fiction novel by Peter Watts that explores consciousness and perception.
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years ↗
A book by David Graeber on the history of debt, credit and money.
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Diátaxis ↗
A framework for organising technical documentation into tutorials, how-tos, reference and explanation.
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Forvo ↗
A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
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From Bauhaus to Our House ↗
Tom Wolfe's critique of modernist architecture.
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How Complex Systems Fail ↗
A short essay by Richard Cook on the nature of failure in complex systems.
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Superintelligence ↗
Nick Bostrom's book on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.
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The Big Short ↗
A 2015 film about the 2008 housing and credit collapse.
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