Links to varies resources regarding mostly Programming (System Programming, Kernel, OS, Algorithms, Rendering etc)
Many links also include discussion on HackerNews (HKN links), that additionally expands information about those resources.
- Low Level Programming
- Compilers
- Kernels, emulators and OS programming
- Small, low memory programs
- Standalone libraries with single header (STB like)
- Electronics / computers from scratch / FPGA
- General Programming
- Graphics and game programming
- Algorithms
- Operating Systems
- EMBEDDED
- Others:
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Small scripting language in C LINK
TinyCC, has small busybox and gmake compilation step LINK HKN
Elk: A low footprint JavaScript engine for embedded systems LINK HKN
Small JS engine for embedded devices LINK HKN
C based Javascript interpreter for low memory embedded devices LINK
LISP with GC in 436 bytes LINK HKN
A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch HKN LINK
Bootstrapping GCC from machine code LINK
List of links for creating compilers and interpreters HKN
First C compiler HKN
Standalone compilation hack library for C HKN LINK
Small C compiler - will have a book written about how to make it: LINK
Full Fortran in WASM LINK
Creating interpreters: LINK
CPU optimization blog LINK
How to Write a Computer Emulator HKN LINK
x86 Bare Metal Examples: Minimal operating systems, learn x86 system programming (also discussion and learning materials about OS dev and hardware access) LINK HKN
Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code LINK HKN
OS from scratch in C with utilities LINK
Quite advanced OS written in Assembly LINK LINK
Interesting projects and compiler (examples of small allocators, operating systems etc) LINK
Linux executable walkthrough LINK
QEMU Internals HKN
Open source DOS with repository: LINK
MS-DOS original source code (assembly): LINK
MS-DOS programs and sources: HKN
Tons of info about emulators with resources: HKN
Making OS in Rust for RISC-V LINK
Operating system in ASM LINK
Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019) HKN
Bootstrap for cortex-M series microcontroller. LINK HKN
Low Level Programming course and materials: LINK LINK
Zig advent of code 2021 pro LINK
Trending Zig on github LINK
ZLD linker with examples of zig c++ LINK
Zig Vulkan headers: LINK
C programming learning materials links/cheatsheet LINK
Modern C book (K&R C programming book modern replacement) LINK
Simple JSON parser in C LINK
Writing programs with NCURSES LINK HKN
VC++ bulding tools without Visual Studio: LINK
Check about Forth, bootstrapping lang for low memory devices HKN
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Media Players in C, more on favourited on github (mostly in C) LINK LINK
MPC fork thats actively being worked on (C++) LINK
Terminal-based Music Player (fully open sourced) LINK
Single-file distributable Web Server with Lua and SQLite LINK HKN
Small SSH server (tinyssh, dropbear) HKN
List of utilities with descriptions! (from DOS and win95 times, mostly without code) LINK
Writting PPM files (image using text format) with C code (nice to combine with STB libraries to save as jpg/png) or pipe into media player LINK HKN LINK LINK HKN
Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C LINK HKN
Micro-Max, a 133-line Chess Source LINK
Simple C based HTTP server by SQLLite in one file HKN
Pretty nice Text Editor with only 2000 lines of C code and 4000 Lua LINK
Dos Navigator port LINK
Fast small browser Badwolf LINK
Ultra small web server with Sqlite DB included - 350kb in exe LINK LINK
Tiny contenarized http server (100kb) LINK
Lwan - high-performance & scalable web server LINK
Ultra lightweight containers runner and manager (also for Rpi) LINK HKN
Application Reverse Engineering (An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software (margin.re)) LINK HKN
Ultra lightweight GUI library LINK
Small multiplatform UI in C LINK
C to Assembly parser in browser!!! LINK
NASM Assembly Language Tutorials LINK
A mini assembler for x86-64 (C) LINK
Disassembly challenges LINK
Flat Assembler - assembler compiler and a lot of resources LINK
A lot of useful resource for Assembly: HKN
Writing IL (.NET Assembly) LINK
x64 assembly blog LINK
Assembly application example (put it onto USB) LINK
C single header libraries (Sean Barrett) LINK LINK
Zig gamedev and graphics library with no dependecies LINK
Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library LINK HKN
Modern TinyGL implementation with some multithreading support LINK
TinyGL is intended to be a very small implementation of a subset of OpenGL * for embedded systems or games. (no hw acceletation) LINK
PortableGL is an implementation of OpenGL 3.x core in clean C99 as a single header library LINK HKN
Bloat-free C++ GUI library LINK
C headers for really nice libraries LINK
Creating 386 motherboard from scratch HKN LINK
Ben Eater's channel (creating simple computers) LINK
Micro code, cpu simulator LINK
80486 architecture document LINK
Making in Python: Geohot/twitchcore: A RISC-V core, first in Python, then in Verilog, then on FPGA HKN LINK LINK
Simple 16-bit CPU LINK
Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 1: Learning hardware design as a software engineer HKN
FPGA open source project for hardware emulation LINK
From Nand to Tetris - full course of creating a computer LINK HKN
Understanding the computer architecture: HKN LINK
Simple computer with programmed CPU LINK
Making ultra simple CPU HKN
GPU architecture walkthrough: LINK
BIOS history LINK
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Good web site for JS training LINK
JS ES6 feature set with examples to execute: LINK
In browser free notepad data:text/html, <title>Quick Note</title>
Small web frameworks (HTMX, HTML) LINK LINK HKN
Winamp in the browser LINK
Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster HKN LINK
Bongo cat HKN
Modern CSS walkthrough/tutorial: LINK
CSS animations LINK
Synth maker in html5 LINK
JSON Parser with Typescript's Type system LINK
SQL DB with TypeScript Type system HKN
JS Asynchronous mechanics LINK
Nice Javascript game - a lot useful code: LINK
Nice site to get console like visuals written in JS: LINK
Sandbox javascript: LINK
GraphQL LINK
Remote Desktop coded in Powershell LINK
Rewritting toy blockchain to Rust LINK
Sample, basic (hello type) video codec implementation in RUST LINK
Rust weekly magazine with publications from blogs etc LINK
Rust project to debug IoT Watch via RPi with VSCode LINK
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM HKN LINK
Small IDE for Python LINK Python sandbox in WASM HKN LINK
Python programming web based sandbox, hosting and IDE: LINK
Code execution visualization (python): LINK
Nim LINK
Zig LINK Zig pastebin LINK Zig forums LINK
C C Language Cheat Sheet LINK
GO Go playground powered by WASM that runs in the browser HKN
Decompressing a Gzip File by Hand HKN
Quick Java programming exercise: LINK
TCL guide from MIT HKN
Websocketd – It's like CGI, twenty years later, for WebSockets LINK HKN
Microservices with .NET Core LINK
Challenging projects every programmer should try: HKN Build your own X (programming projects with examples done in the past) LINK
Neural Network From Scratch LINK HKN
Deep learning Basics 11 part series: LINK
Community tools and libraries HKN
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Grafica Obscura – Collected Computer Graphics Hacks (technical notes, pictures and essays) LINK
Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your web browser HKN
Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book LINK
How to read Shader assembly HKN
Computer Graphics from Scratch: HKN LINK
A perceptual color space for image processing (turning color to grey gradient) LINK
MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua (simple IDE like PICO-8) HKN
GameEngine from scratch LINK
RTS engine in C LINK
Quake3 engine copycat LINK LINK HKN
Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer LINK HKN
Small toy renderer in C LINK
Commanche voxel terrain gen in 20 lines LINK
2d graphic game library in Rust LINK
RayTracing in One Weekend LINK
From NAND to Raytracer HKN
Nvidia's RTGI source code: LINK
Small 2D shooter in C without any dependencies LINK HKN
Trackmania open source clone: LINK
Flight sim in C++ LINK
Multiplayer game that you write in assembly like language LINK
Roguelike tutorials HKN
Simple Dungeon Map Generation (also notes to technical procedural generation talks) HKN LINK
Client game-server architecture: LINK
Free sounds and music for games and videos HKN
Programming visualization engine kinda LINK
Frink calc and lang for physics calcutations with units explained in detail HKN
Graphics Programming Weekly discussion: HKN HKN
FPS in Unity book LINK
GPU access via code in Linux LINK
Vectors: LINK
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POSIX Threads Programming HKN LINK
Algorithmic complexity by examples LINK
MIT Introduction to Algorithms LINK
Sorting algorithm (Einstein) in java LINK
V language - memory management LINK
Libdill: Structured Concurrency for LINK HKN
The Craft of Text Editing LINK
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Windows services: LINK LINK LINK
Debloaded Windows 10 - Tiny10 - created with NTlite LINK
Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5M (also a lot of tips for small Win) HKN
Optimizing windows startup: LINK
Big WSL Guide LINK
Moving WSL installation: LINK
WSL - custom distro tutorial (ArchLinux in example) based on docker image LINK
Linux Apps ported to Windows with MinGW: LINK
Microsoft Win32 full documentation LINK
OpenSSH in windows - create a server on laptop and connect from PC, use then bash console LINK LINK
Bash/Linux Cheatsheet LINK LINK
Linux Offline HowTo documentation repo: LINK
Memory read on Linux (top, htop, free) HKN LINK
Alpine Linux 3.15 (a lot useful posts): HKN
X Window System on a Floppy (tiny linux, tinylinux) HKN
XFCE Windows 95 theme LINK
Setup of Alpine via 2 USB (in the example for a Fileserver) LINK
Awesome description of GNU core utils LINK
Getting better with Linux (10 projects) LINK HKN
Linux's MAN via REST LINK
NixOS introduction and review: LINK
SSH cheatsheet LINK
Linux productivity Tools: HKN
Piping video from one linux to another linux via SSH (my case passing video from laptop to RPi connected to TV) LINK LINK LINK LINK
Visual guide to SSH tunneling HKN
Direct linux binaries: LINK
Linux Networking 101 LINK
Linux 101 from IBM?! LINK LINK
Running apps without WM and DE LINK
Dissecting a GPU bug in Linux LINK
Yocto linux - custom linux for embedded hw LINK
New type of Docker packaging, more like VM (DX11) LINK
Easy way for creating SSH based command line applications (whole repo of tools) LINK
ASCII escape codes and how to use them to display stuff in terminal without ncurses LINK
Recording terminal session: LINK
Convert images to Terminal color output: LINK HKN
AWK tutorial and exercises LINK
AWK overview LINK
Book and discussion about AWK: HKN
The Linux shell commands handbook LINK
Bash utils LINK
Linux terminal tools guide (pdf) HKN LINK
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder LINK
TLP linux power management LINK
Easy tunneling LINK
Logging to WM via SSH (X server) LINK
turn logs output into tree structure LINK
W3M, Oddilo - light-weight Linux browser LINK
best terminal applications: LINK
USB Formatting utilities HKN
Reducing container size LINK
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Using kindle as RaspberryPi display LINK
Installing Linux on Xperia Z3 Compact LINK
FreeRTOS - Real-time operating system for microcontrollers LINK
Highly efficient Box86 x86 emulator for non x86 platforms like ARM LINK
Backup and restore USB with linuxvia Win32 Disc Imager in windows LINK
installation setup via DD LINK
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Small, passive open source Anti-Vir app LINK
C/C++ quotes! LINK
News site that aggregates data from different news sites and display them as pure html LINK
youtube-dl alternative LINK
Good and cheap dedicated hosting: LINK
Oasis Linux - Statically linked (nice browser) HKN
Search Engine with a public API (Gigablast) LINK HKN
Google Searcher for Papers and Publications LINK
Basic English LINK
JSON design business card LINK
Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation HKN LINK (10.39M Storage I/O Per Second From One Thread)
Learn x in y minutes LINK
Best hacker news posts HKN
VPN + Local network guide LINK
Great tool for creating gifs from any view LINK LINK
Site with a lot of APIs LINK
RDP specification: LINK
Custom CPU design: LINK
Azure free account - full VMs for free for 750h LINK
Mermaid - Graph creator via syntax LINK
Thread about Firewalls HKN
Random walkthrough GIT LINK
Real Hacking Games: LINK
Effective C book - BUY! LINK
Book on practical electronics design HKN
Ebooks of Compilers and C LINK
Book 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development. LINK
Books about creating operating systems (with homework and examples): LINK
Operating system from scratch: LINK
Linux Device Driver books LINK
The Architecture of Open Source Applications LINK
Programming from the ground up - book (assembly and C) HKN LINK (for Rust) HKN LINK
Teach Yourself Computer Science HKN LINK LINK
IT related book notes: LINK
Math and Science docs compilation github LINK HKN
MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems HKN
Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online HKN LINK
Ossu/computer-science: Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science LINK
Algorithm Design and Analysis Course: LINK
Math learning resources: HKN
Mathematics Cheat Sheet HKN LINK
Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes LINK
Mathematical exercises: LINK below one with bio/chemistry twist LINK
AI course Finish university: LINK
All physics 101 materials: LINK
Teaching yourself Demoscene in 14 days HKN
What happens when: LINK
Busy Beaver problem HKN
Animating mechanical engines: LINK HKN
A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design (good for academic entries) HKN
Nice blog with technical examples: LINK
Optimization blog LINK
Atomics in AArch64 in a blog LINK HKN
TCP optimization (blog): LINK
Anatomy of a program in memory (screenshots messed up) LINK
FOSDEM - Open Source Conference LINK
Conference about cybersecurity LINK
New physics model: LINK