Resources

A curated collection of awesome tools, resources, libraries and softwares I found on the internet.

💻 Development

• OOP design patterns
• Technology radar: opinionated guide to technology frontiers by Thoughtworks
• SourceMaking Design patterns
• Frontend checklist
• Free programming notes
• Dev hints: Rico’s collection of cheatsheets
• Best of VIM tips
• Learn X in Y minutes: collection of tools & programming languages coding examples to quickly learn them and have an overview of what they can do
• Shell magic: Bash quick references
• Web skills: visual learning guide for web developers
• Real world demo apps: demos using full stack technologies
• Developer roadmap: community driven roadmaps, articles and resources for developers
• Conventional commit: specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages
• Conventional comment: comments that are easy to grok and comment
• Big-O cheatsheet
• On YOLOsec and FOMOsec
• Programming idioms
• Command Line Interface Guidelines
• free-for.dev: list of softwares and other offerings that have free tiers for developers
• aws cli builder: build AWS CLI commands
• CNCF End User Technology Radar
• Engineering Effectiveness handbook
• Web frameworks benchmark
• Software Engineering at Google
• A gentle introduction to Open Search
• Sqids: open source library to generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers
• DEDP: Data Engineering Design Patterns
• Data Oriented Design
• lcl.host: the fastest & easiest way to get HTTPS in your local development environment
• Open Source Insights: examine dependencies

Bash

• FullBashGuide
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
• Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash

🐹 golang

• Go Optimization Guide

☕ java

• Java design patterns: curated list of OOP design patterns with some examples implemented in Java
• Modern Java practices

🦀 rust

• Rust book
• Rust cheatsheet
• Tour of Rust
• Rust by example
• Comprehensive Rust

💎 ruby

• Ruby Essentials
• RubyMonk: Interactive Ruby tutorials
• Ruby Arrays Cheatsheet
• Ruby Videos
• Intro - Ruby, Ractors, and Lock-Free Data Structures

⚡ zig

• Zig Book
• zig.guide

🤖 AI

• State of AI 2025
• LiveBench
• There’s an AI for that
• Will Robots Take My Job?

System design

• System design courses
• System design interview
• System design learning: learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews

🤔 Retrospectives

• Jamie’s reflections on a decade of coding
• Forty years of programming from Fabien Sanglard
• 40 years of programming from Lars Wirzenius

Kafka

• Human readable Kafka properties
• A gentle introduction to Kafka

📐 Architecture

• Cloud design pattern: design patterns useful for building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud by Microsoft
• Architecture of Open Source Applications: books on how softwares are structured and why
• Amazon whitepapers on their software architecture
• List of web software architectures
• Architecture Decision Record: document to capture important architectural decision made along with its context and consequences
• ADR: Architectural Decision Record
• Architecture anti-patterns

🔒 Security

• Microsoft SDL practices
• Microsoft threat modeling
• Security architecture anti-patterns: Design patterns to avoid when designing computer systems by the National Cyber Security Centre
• Microservice security patterns
• 10 ways to secure a Spring Boot App
• Web security hack anatomy
• ANSSI agile and security: ANSSI’s recommendations for including security in agile processes
• Threat modeling manifesto
• OWASP top ten web app security risks
• Agile threat modelling
• OWASP Cheat Sheet Series
• Tomb: hidden file encryption
• Canarytoken: “honeypot” like tokens

Devops

• Pulumi: modern infrastructure as code
• Paketo: cloud native container images buildpacks
• 12-factor app: methodology for building software-as-a-service apps
• Devops newsletters

AWS

• AWS EC2 instance comparison
• AWS cheat sheets
• AWS certification cheat sheets
• AWS flash cards
• AWS EC2 prices

kubernetes

• Squash: debug microservices apps while they run in Kubernetes
• Kubernetes instance calculator
• The Learnk8s blog

📜 Documentation

• Notes on technical writing: advices for writing technical documentation
• Improve communities through documentation
• Best practice for navigating API documentation
• Best book summaries: free book summaries
• Federal plain language guidelines: guidelines to help write clearly
• Excalidraw: whiteboard tool to sketch diagrams
• Ira Design: build your own amazon illustrations
• Diataxis: a systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
• AWS icons: download, copy and paste AWS icons in SVG and PNG formats

Engineering career

• How to deal with difficult people: funny way to categorize difficult people and how to deal with them
• Effective engineer: some good advice to become a good engineer
• Public engineering career ladder

🎨 Design

• Logofox: fast logo maker
• Happy Hues: color palettes to pick for your designs
• Design tip: good design tips for developers
• Palette app: build smooth color scheme, fine tune hue, …
• No design: collection of tools for developers with little to no artistic talent
• Krita: open source painting program
• Shoelace: collection of every day UI components built on a framework-agnostic technology

🗣️ Presentation

• Slides: SAAS tool to make presentations for developers with features like syntax highlighted code, step-by-step code highlights presentation…
• Carbon: create and share beautiful images of your source code
• Flaticon: large database of icons
• The Noun project: collection of icons
• Pexels: free stock photos & videos
• Unsplash: free usable images
• How to speak by Pr Patrick Winston

🗂️ Database

• PGTune: generate optimized postgresql.conf
• Postgresqlco.nf: postgresql.conf documentation for humans
• Joe Bot: a SQL query optimization assistant
• PostgreSQL’s explain analyze made readable
• PostgreSQL execution plan visualizer
• PSQL tips
• clidey/whodb: A lightweight next-gen data explorer - Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, MariaDB, Elastic Search, and Clickhouse with Chat interface
• My DBA Notebook

📃 Legal stuff

• Code du travail numérique: collection of French labour legislation
• Antiobio’Malin: collection of illness infections, how to catch and treat them
• diplome.gouv.fr: French website to get diploma attestation, useful in case you lost your diplomas
• French online petition: web application to file and sign petitions
• Traffic offence simulation: online simulator to know what you risk when you breach some traffic regulation
• oups.gouv.fr: advice to avoid making mistakes in your administrative procedures
• Mes droits sociaux: simulator for your social rights
• Online tax stamps purchasing
• Corrige ton impôt: good advice to help you fill your tax declaration
• Mon compte formation
• Calculatrice fiscale LMNP
• Déclaration changement de coordonnées
• Agence nationale des titres sécurisés: service to request new licences (e.g. driving licence, passport, …)
• Modèle de documents: official document examples

🗣️ Interviews

• Tech interview handbook: useful tips for tech interviews
• RxResume: free online resume builder
• 1 on 1 questions: good questions to ask on 1 on 1 meetings

✏️ Writing

• WriteMD: online shareable distraction-free markdown editor
• Markmap: generate mindmaps from Markdown

⚡ Productivity

• Personal OKRs
• The mediocre programmer

📹 Video

• FFmpeg guide: build ffmpeg filters without the headache
• FFmprovisr: making ffmpeg easier

📹 Video meetings

• Whereby: flexible tool providing you with video meetings in the browser – no downloads & no logins for guests
• Jitsi: secure, fully featured, and completely free video conferencing

🌍 Browser

• Arkenfox GUI: Firefox privacy and anti-tracking user.js GUI view
• Zen Browser: Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features. We care about your experience, not your data.
• Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

🧠 Knowledge bases

• Yoan Thirion Knowledge-base: notes on some technical subjects and books
• twydev notebook: notes on some technical subjects and books
• The Quantum Garden: digital garden on various interesting topics
• About-EN - Dr. Mario’s 🧠: digital garden on several topics, mostly technical
• Simon Spati - Data Engineering Blog: digital garden on data engineering

🌍 Blogs

• ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

⚙️ Misc

• Ethical alternative & resources: alternative tools and softwares to mainstream stuffs
• Kialo: tool to debate any subject
• Arguman: argument analysis platform
• CNIL GDPR guide for developer: best practices written by the CNIL to address GDPR from the developer perspective
• 40 Powerful concepts to describe the world
• A single div: collection of CSS drawings in single divs
• Est-ce qu’on met en prod aujourd’hui
• Developer excuses: some excuses a developer might say
• Windows 93: web emulation of Windows 93 (or some of it)
• PCE.js: web emulation of classic computers
• CAAS: Cat As A Service is a REST API to spread peace & love (or not) with cats
• procatinator: random cat gifs with music
• The useless web: redirects you to an useless website
• Geek typer: website to simulate what a “Hacker” do in movies
• O’RLY cover generator: generate “O’Reilly” Parody book cover (useful for presentations)
• Monitoror: unified monitoring wallboard
• GifCap: online animated GIFs creator from a screen recording
• Remote tools: top remote tech products
• Planning poker online: secretly vote your estimation without influencing others
• Dollar Street: see how families live around the world
• Linux one-liners
• Lofi cafe
• Than Average
• RFC searcher
• Insanely useful websites: a collection of links to some useful websites
• La France en chiffres
• Collection of free stuffs on the internet
• Series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions
• Github Code Finder
• Decision tree to choose the right chart type based on the data
• Tools kept it simple
• Gemini Co-Drawing - a Hugging Face Space by Trudy
• ToS;DR: Terms of Service - Didn’t Read
• Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System