Affable Blogs!
Introduction:
There are tons of intellectuals out there whose writing has inspired me to what I'm and what I want to be in my life. This list is an attempt to accrue them all at one place for easy tracking and also make things easy for others when they want to track blogs.
Blogs
- Matthew Might University of Utah
- Visiting professor at Harvard Med School and a strategist at the office of the President of the White House.
- James Mickens Harvard University
- considered to be the funniest researcher. Would love to rub shoulders with him. Teaches CS161 - Operating Systems alongside Margo Seltzer
- Margo Seltzer Harvard University
- the inventor of BerkeleyDB. Teaches CS161, Operating Systems and CS61, Systems Programming and Machine Organization
- Nathan Clement UT Austin
- learnt Perl from one of his classes
- James Plank University of Tennesse, Knoxville
- a vibrant professor, few of UCSB's courses are shaped from his teachings
- Nick Parlante Stanford University
- learnt pointers here.
- Linus Akesson Freelancer
- Programming, linux and meditation. Repeat!
- Wozniak Steve Wozniak
- did not know he existed on the web
- Dave Plonka UW Madison
- research scientist at Akamai Technologies
- David 'Tale' Lawrence
- non programming stuff
- Sean Eron Anderson Stanford
- C hacks
- Keith Thompson
- Fun stuff. He's not Ken Thompson!
- Unknown
- Perl one liners
- Unknown
- Perl buffering
- Guy Kawasaki
- Jeff Atwood & Joel Spolsky
- StackExchange founders join together to write mostly toward exploring the human, practical aspects of programming, rather than featuring the deep dives into code that you might see on other tech blogs.
- Unknown
- Collection of articles ranging from programming to body building to mathematics.
- Prakhar Srivastav
- this dude is awesome!
- Taylor Hornby
- security stuff
- Hacker News HN
- Cool stuff here! Hangout here a lot.
- John Resig
- The developer of jQuery
- Paul Graham
- Nice essays here!
- Jessie Frazelle
- Ex Docker genius
- Mitchell Hashimoto
- Creater of Vagrant
- Pravendra Singh
- this dude is awesome!
- Richard Littauer
- Postman devs
- Zach Holman
- this dude is awesome!
- Remi Prevost
- Homebrew founder
- [CodeKata] (http://codekata.com/)
- Because experience is the only teacher
- Armon Dadgar
- Co founder of HashiCorp
- Jean Yang
- Programming language researcher
- Diego Ongaro
- The creator of RAFT consensus algorithm
- Norman Ramsey
- Professor at Tufts for Programming Languages
Other musings:
- Kernel map
- Nifty Assignments Nick Parlante
- Aweseom lists
Quotes to remember:
There are so many wonderful quotes that I keep reading that I finally thought I need to dump them at one place. This is an effort toward that!
Aristotle
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Scott Patten
Stop making excuses. Go build something. The point is, that you can and should teach yourself some new skills. You're way closer to being employable than I was, that's for sure. It may take some evenings and weekends, but they'll be some of the most fun evening and weekends you have ever had. Find something you want to do and build it. Fall in love with that idea, but be ready to dump it for something better.
John Resig
It's important to note that I don't really care about the outward perception of GitHub flow chart. I think that's the most takeaway from this experiment: this is about a change that you're making in your life for yourself not a change that you're making to satisfy someone else's perception of your work. The same goes for any form of deiting or exercise: if you don't care about improving yourself then you'll never actually succeed.
Quora
Get your work done first so you can play without guilt. Even better, make work play and the fun never ends!
Quora
If you're bored, you're doing it wrong.
Quora
The skills that will help your career most are the abilities to assimilate, communicate, and persuade. Keep learning!
Random hearings
If you believe in something even if the odds are stacked up against you, then GO FOR IT!
Quora
It truly matters what you think about. Think well be reading good books, building good, loving relationships, having good conversation, and imtatiting good people.
Quora
Failure is an opportunity; no great man or woman ever achieved significance without great failures. Fail forward!
Quora
Don't look down on others because they don't what you didn't earn: your intellect, your beauty, and your culture of birth are underserved gifts. Stay humble!
Quora
Ultimately privacy is a myth; God sees everything. The cloud records everything. NSA files everything. So, live transparently and don't waste useless energy hiding failures.
Quora
Don't complain. Either change your sitation, learn to cope, or change perspective.
Quora
Find a passion. Pick a hobby, own it; photography, juggling - whatever. Get your 10K hours of perfect practice in early and change your life.
Mark Spitz, Gold medalist, Swimming
If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail
Dara Torres, Gold medalist, Swimming
Never put an age limit on your dreams
Oksana Baiul, Gold medalist, Figure Skating
One shouldn't be afraid to lose
Olga Korbut, Gold medalist, Figure skating
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows
Allison Jones, 6 time Paralympian
If you're not having fun then what the hell are you doing?
Sanya Richards-Ross, Gold medalist, Track and field
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle
C.N. Parkinson
Perfection is achieved only on the point of collapse.
Donald Knuth
Premature optimization is the root of all evil
L. Peter Deutsch
To iterate is human, to recurse devine
Winston S. Churchill
Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting
Brian Kernighan
What you see is all you get
Quora
Find a passion. Pick a hobby, own it; photography, juggling - whatever. Get your 10K hours of perfect practice in early and change your life.
Admiral McRaven
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new
Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile
Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge
Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
Albert Einstein
It's not that I am so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you eveywhere
Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience
Albert Einstein
You never fail until you stop trying
Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them
Albert Einstein
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for
Albert Einstein
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people of things
Albert Einstein
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible
Albert Einstein
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility
Albert Einstein
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid