Books & Writing
Books and writing: reading lists, essays, authors, the craft of writing, and literature.
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BioNLP group at NCBI ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Develops improvements to biomedical literature search and curation (e.g., through PubMed), led by Dr. Zhiyong Lu.
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Monarch Initiative monarchinitiative.org
A joint effort between groups at Oregon State University, Oregon Health & Science University, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, The Jackson Laboratory, and several others, seeking to "integrate biological information using semantics, and present it in a novel way, leveraging…
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Biomedical Literature Mining link.springer.com
A (non-free) volume of Methods in Molecular Biology from 2014. Chapters covers introductory principles in text mining, applications in the biological sciences, and potential for use in clinical or medical safety scenarios.
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Undiscovered Public Knowledge jstor.org
(paywalled) and Rediscovering Don Swanson: the Past, Present and Future of Literature-Based Discovery.
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Getting Started in Text Mining journals.plos.org
A brief introduction to bio-text mining from Cohen and Hunter. More than ten years old but still quite relevant. See also an earlier paper by the same authors.
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BioRED ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
paper - a set of >6.5K biomedical relation annotations, plus labels for novel findings.
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Proof of Transfer Whitepaper Reading with Muneeb Ali youtube.com
Overview of the Proof of Transfer (PoX) whitepaper from the author.
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Example Contracts github.com
A collection of sample smart contracts to serve as a starting point for writing your own.
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ClarityGPT Prompt claritygpt.com
Writing smart contracts with a chat bot.
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Order Book Contract Walkthrough byzantion.hiro.so
Walkthrough of an order book smart contract built with Clarity.
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Clarity of Mind book.clarity-lang.org
Writing productive smart contracts that are predictable. CC BY-SA 4.0
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Bitcoin Book of BIPs adamdecaf.github.io
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Isovalent library for Cilium isovalent.com
Find videos, case studies, blogs, books, labs, and analyst reports.
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The first complete, practical insider's guide to writing SNMP MIBs.
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Essential SNMP explores both commercial and open source packages, and elements like OIDs, MIBs, community strings, and traps are covered in depth. The book contains five new chapters and various updates throughout.
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Productive Fish productive.fish
Useful articles on how to be more productive, study effectively and improve well-being.
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Towards Productive Technical Discussions cate.blog
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Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide amazon.com
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Effective Platform Engineering manning.com
A book about designing, building, deploying, and scaling a custom Internal Development Platforms (IDP).
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Writing an engineering strategy lethain.com
A guide on how to write and document an engineering strategy.
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Pricing niche products kevinlynagh.com
“The most compelling argument against simply picking a price, though, is that it limits how much you can learn about your market.” Then the author setup vickrey auctions to discover price.
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Books, an immutable double-entry accounting database service developer.squareup.com
Explain the basic data model of a double-entry accounting system relying on Google Spanner for internal use at Square.
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The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture ankush.dev
Floats were suspicious even before the first general-purpose computer (EDVAC) was built: “Von Neumann wasn't entirely sold on why we might need floating-point numbers. He was quite vocal in his critique of floating-point numbers.” The author of this article complement this…
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Thinking in Systems goodreads.com
An essential introduction into system thinking. It helps the reader to understand the fundamentals and introduces several system traps and how to overcome them.
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Domain-Driven Design Distilled goodreads.com
An accessible book to learn the main concepts of Domain-Driven Design.
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Strategy basics alexewerlof.substack.com
First in a series of posts about strategy why, how and what.
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How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code web.archive.org
“Instead of writing code, consider having the candidate read existing code and talk about how it works. 1) Reading code is 95% of what a developer does as part of their job. 2) A candidate can tell you a lot about their programming skill in the first five minutes of reading. 3)…
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Reverse Engineering A Successful Lifestyle Business web.archive.org
Targets lifestyle entrepreneur, but still full of fantastic quotes from reference books on customer relation, pricing and marketing a product.
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The Technical Interview is an Ego Trip web.archive.org
Starts with anecdote of developers using a job interview as a vehicle to demonstrate their superiority. Then the author details a reasonable interview process that is trying to not waste anyone's time.
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Eye Candy QA techreflect.net
Retelling of author's job at Apple: “John Louch was my boss. (…) John always shared everything with us, even the don't share this with your team stuff. We were people he trusted, so it was as it should be. It made you feel like you were part of something greater.” Or why…
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The Apollo Syndrome teamtechnology.co.uk
A phenomenon discovered by Dr Meredith Belbin, and exposed in his 1981 book on Management Teams, where teams of highly capable individuals can, collectively, perform badly.
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How to Read a Paper svr-sk818-web.cl.cam.ac.uk
Outlines a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers.
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Good sleep, good learning, good life supermemo.guru
An e-book-sized synthesis on sleep research “with a view to practical applications, esp. in people who need top-quality sleep for their learning or creative achievements.”
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Write an Excellent Programming Blog speakerdeck.com
Tips on structure and style to produce great blog posts.
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Algorithm for writing a scientific manuscript sci-hub.st
A process to guide the preparation and refinement of manuscripts.
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Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry prog21.dadgum.com
“When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity.”
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The Baldwin Formula for scientific writing: writing papers and reviews people.clas.ufl.edu
“The most efficient way to write scientific papers is to write while you are still conducting experiments”.
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently openlibrary.org
We learn in this book that employee happiness was not correlated to company success. A comment on HN details the questions that were highly correlated to company success.
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The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey openlibrary.org
The author use a parable in which problems are monkeys. Unexperienced managers let monkeys being transferred to them, accumulates on their back and compounds. From this, the book teach you how to change from taking on responsibilities to delegating them so you don't become a…
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Essays on object-oriented software engineering openlibrary.org
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Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft onezero.medium.com
After 3 decades in a deeply flawed company, the author comes to a humble conclusion: leaders should embodies the value of their employees. Not the other way around. “Changes at the top — not speeches, training or hashtags — make the most cultural impact. If you want real and…
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Notes on Technical Writing mkaz.blog
An effective list of do and don't when it comes to writing documentation.
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Book Summary of "Who: The A Method for Hiring" medium.com
The essential of Who, a popular book on recruiting executives.
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You're Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You're Managing a Team of Writers medium.com
Because writing software is “a creative process which is by its nature unpredictable and personal, in an environment which craves certainty, predictability and consistency.”
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Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful medium.com
Huge compiled list of mental models. Became the basis of book.
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Questions for our first 1:1 larahogan.me
A personal list of high-level questions from a manager.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Standup kristoff.it
Author experienced 3 formats of stand-ups before ending with one working for his team, and concludes that “the details that make up a good meeting are subtle and the pursuit of an artificial standard of aesthetics will prevent you from doing the necessary experimentation to…
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A high-resilience org chart jessitron.com
“If you know what problem you're solving and you know how to solve it, a bureaucratic organization will do. Stick with what you know. If you're writing software, that's a generative activity. You need a high-resilience org chart. Fewer boxes, more flexibility.”
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What nobody tells you about documentation divio.com
There is four kinds of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, explanation and reference. Each with their own structure and mode of writing.
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Technical Writing Courses developers.google.com
This collection of courses and learning resources aims to improve your technical documentation. Learn how to plan and author technical documents. You can also learn about the role of technical writers in a company.
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