Game dev
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Gamedev tricks
A bunch of neat game engine and programming tricks devised to work around limitations, bugs, and difficulties.
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Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code
A user goes through code from all their failed game projects and looks at mistakes.
Low-level
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The Development of the C Language
The precedents and conditions that led to the genesis of the C language.
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JPEG XL’s Modular Mode Explained
An interesting dive into lossless image compression.
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OSDev.org
I'm too lazy (and not smart enough) to ever develop my own OS, but reading these peoples' exploits is pretty interesting.
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Text Hates You
It indeed does.
Miscellaneous
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Awesome
Lists of technological and programming tools.
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The Daily WTF
Some people aren't good at coding.
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Debugging Stories
Some amusing and interesting stories about debugging.
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Langton's Ant Simulator
Play around with Langton's ant in your browser.
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Learn X in Y minutes
Basic summaries of different languages' constructs coded in the languages themselves.
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Rosetta Code
A self-described "programming chrestomathy site".
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Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
Enough said.
Web dev
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Cascading Style Sheets
Håkon Wium Lie's PhD thesis, in which he chronicles the influences and rationale behind CSS.
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Deceptive Patterns
Tricks used by web developers to deceive users into performing an unintended action.
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Eruda
Use web developer tools on your phone.
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HEAD
Lists all the things that can go in the HTML <head> element.
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MDN web docs
Better than W3schools.
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A List Apart
Originally a mailing list, now is one of the pre-eminent web development-oriented publications.
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Public APIs
A compilation of freely available APIs that allow you to access art, data, statistics, information, pictures, and tech.
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SVGOMG
Use svgo to optimise SVG files visually.
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