Xtian’s Links

Table of Contents

A curated collection of links to various bits of content.

Business and Management Theory

What do executives do, anyway? on the role of executives in medium/large companies and building culture in smaller ones.

Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition Classic book on the design of database systems

GNU Make vs BSD Make good basic Makefile examples with examples of "automatic" variables that can expand to multiple inputs/outputs.

ARM MCU Makefile Guide my own guide to learning MCU development with Linux.
The Embedded Rust Book Embedded programming with Rust
Writing an Embedded Rust HAL from scratch In-depth tutorial on building a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for a new microcontroller (MCU).

The Hard Thing About Software Development "… Why you should aim for "deep context", and why the price for (some) remote developers is dropping to zero"
The Product-Minded Software Engineer on the qualities of product-focused engineers.
Holding a Program in One’s Head classic essay on the importance of a distraction-free work environment.

async/await is the wrong abstraction why the async..await pattern in Javascript is broken
Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful outlines the problems with managing concurrency and flow control and proposed solution.
Structured Concurrency A different but extremely similar take on how to build better concurrency primitivies in programming languages.
Timeouts and cancellation for humans why concurrent APIs need the concept of cancellation tokens, and why even this approach has shortcomings.

Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story excellent talk describing various cutting-edge software and hardware features of the Xbox One platform that prevent physical attacks.

Reverting a faulty merge best explanation I have ever seen for how to properly revert a faulty merge.

curated collection of links to interesting things

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