Games
Diablo II
Final Fantasy XIV
- Yoshida Uncensored 1, fan translation (Shini-tan, 2018)
- Yoshida Uncensored 2, fan translation (Shini-tan, 2018)
Disability and Mental Health
- The Spoon Theory (Miserandino, 2003) - the original. none of this fucking appropriated-for-management "out of spoons" that i've seen before, but a disabled woman explaining how she has to manage energy doing tasks that most people don't even think about.
- i almost killed myself before i could finish making this video (scotch, 2018) - i watch this shit every 6 months and it makes me cry and gives me the strength to carry on at the same time
- I am not always very attached to being alive (Borges, 2019) - frank discussion of passive ideation.
- Reviving the concept of cousins. (Baggs, 2016)
- Common Cyborg (Weise, 2018)
Technology
- How Complex Systems Fail (Cook, 2000)
- Agile Manifesto (2001) - the original, as I like to call it "shut up and let us work"
- Hillel Wayne's The Crossover Project, debunking "software engineering is not engineering" by talking to engineers who've done both software and other engineers
- should we stop making software? (Kelly, 2019)
Lessons? - TBA a better name here
- Julia Evans Comics, mostly about command line tools, HTTP, and CSS
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education, student-run course at MIT in 2020
Luddism
Criticism of tech, from knowledgeable folks, on the basis of ethics, anti-capitalism, privacy, environmentalism...
- Lowtech Manifesto (Wallbank, 1999)
- Even in tech, words matter (socketwench, 2018)
- "Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise."
- Contra Chrome (Elliot, 2022), edit of the original 2008 Chrome introduction webcomic to explain just how much of a surveillance machine Google products and the modern Internet as a whole is
- Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages (Prereira et. al., 2017-2021)
- Environmental impact assessment of online advertising (pdf, 2.0 MiB) (Pärssinen et. al, 2018)
Code Format & Style
I intend to write a summary of what I've learned from these (and my own experience) at some point... but until then, here are the links.
- Four Strategies for Organizing Code (Sandin, 2016)
- Towards Inclusive Source Code Readability Based on the Preferences of Programmers with Visual Impairments (Pandey, Oney, & Begel, 2024)
- available for personal use on request
- A systematic literature review on the impact of formatting elements on code legibility (pdf, 594 kiB) (Oliveira et. al., 2023)
- Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code (Gopstein et. al., 2017)
- Typographic Style is More than Cosmetic (Oman & Cook, 1990)
- Program Indentation and Comprehensibility (Miara et. al., 1983)