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Awesome Technical and Productivity Articles

Josh Anthony · January 3, 2021

Last year I collected a lot of useful articles and tutorials about technology and productivity and I wanted to share some of my favourites! Many of these are technical tutorials and examples that can serve as a good jumping off point for technical side projects such as learning Git by writing your own Git or creating a COVID-19 classifier using PyTorch.

Technical Tutorials and Examples

  1. FORTRAN in the browser using WebAssembly AKA full-stack FORTRAN
  2. SQL database implemented in TypeScript
  3. Learn Git by creating your own Git using Python
  4. Build a COVID-19 Scan Classifier Using PyTorch
  5. How to make a robotic worm
  6. Visualising gzip compression with Python
  7. Math parser for Python
  8. Writing your own virtual machine
  9. Diving into Go by building a CLI application
  10. Node.js ePaper library
  11. Learn React Hooks by building a Paint app
  12. Building a high performance JSON parser
  13. Deploy machine learning models with Django
  14. Build a desktop computer system from scratch
  15. Create a poet/writer using Deep Learning

Technical Theory

  1. Computer Scientists break the travelling salesperson record
  2. Mathematics resources for the adventurous self-learner
  3. Teach yourself computer science guide 2020
  4. Exceeding GPT-3 performance with 99.9% fewer parameters
  5. Learn how UUIDs are generated
  6. How does SQLite work part 1
  7. Machine Learning 101 (Google engineer)
  8. 100 must-read NLP papers
  9. Explaining RNNs without neural networks
  10. Algebra driven design
  11. Detect face-swapped video clips using convolutional long short-term memory
  12. Taming the Tail: Adventures in Improving AI Economics
  13. There’s never been an easier time to write your own language
  14. Convolutional Neural Network explainer
  15. Visual guide to React mental models
  16. 29 must read books for programmers
  17. SQL murder mystery
  18. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
  19. Lessons learned building an ML trading system that turned $5k into $200k

Productivity Theory

  1. Essays on programming I think about a lot
  2. How to Write Technical Posts (so people will read them)
  3. Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline
  4. Work on what matters
  5. Sell yourself, sell your work
  6. The Importance of Deep Work & The 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
  7. Biohacking Lite
  8. Budgeting spreadsheet v3
  9. Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes

Interesting Projects

  1. Using a neural network to create photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors
  2. Lightweight human and face detection library
  3. Drive through cities while listening to local radio
  4. Nyan amateur satellite
  5. How to run a solar powered blog
  6. Attempts to make a font look more handwritten
  7. Classifying 200,000 articles in 7 hours using NLP
  8. Open plants API
  9. Make a website load faster with just in time preloading
  10. Open digital ePaper typewriter

Non-Technical Articles

  1. Practice typing by typing out novels
  2. GNU Typist
  3. Keybr Typing Tutor
  4. Getting started with worldbuilding
  5. 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels

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