This is a personal list of useful resources for improving web stacks, frameworks, development, UX, whatever that I come across!

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Software Engineering

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Encryption vs. Encoding vs. Hashing

Interactive Tutorials

Unix Commands

Bash Redirection

CSS Flexbox

Soft Skills

Kind Engineering

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Frameworks, Libraries, Stacks

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PostgreSQL

Full text search in milliseconds with PostgreSQL

psql and hostname

Manual reload

Django

Checklist to Build Great Reusable Django Apps

PNG vulnerability (~1.11)

Modern Django - 0 (Intro and Setup)

Modern Django - 1 (Project Refactor, Settings)

Modern Django - 2 (REST API, DRF)

Magic + Uploaded file validation

Django Design Patterns

Setting up Django + DRF with JWT

Classy Class Based Views

Node

Project Directory Structure

A modern Node manager

Node v8 (async/await) + Express + pg

Express production best practices: performance and reliability

Debugging with Node v.8+, VS Code, Mocha

Build Tools / Automation

Grunt vs. Gulp vs. Webpack

Two Quick Ways to Reduce React App's Size in Production

Languages

• General

  • Rust or Go

• Strings

  • Unicode vs. ASCII

  • Encoding, Encrypting, Hashing

• Python

  • Awesome Python

  • CPython Time Complexity

  • PyPy vs CPython

  • strings and bytesarray (Python 3+)

  • Performance Tips

• Javascript, ES6

  • ES6 Destructuring
  • Classes suck in Javascript

React

Hooking up React Redux with Django Backend

Import issues with IntelliJ / WebStorm

jQuery

jQuery Cheat Sheet

Chaining vs. Not Chaining

HTML5

Async vs. Defer

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DevOps

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Server

SSH Brute-Force Attacks

Site analyzer + Live Performance Report

NGINX Config Pitfalls

NGINX gzip not compressing Javascript files

Transfering files with SSH

Testing

TDD vs. BDD

Architecture

Scaling Websockets

Other

Interactive Python version of "WolframAlpha"

Project Euler

Cryptocurrency Decentralization

Bitcoin Basics