Learning Resources & Trackers

Welcome to my learning hub! This page serves as both a curated collection of my favorite learning resources that I reference regularly, and a gateway to my seasonal learning trackers where I document my ongoing educational journey.

Learning Resources & References

I am using this section to organize gems that I’ve come across that I think are worthy of bookmarking and coming back to periodically.

Embedded Systems

Podcasts

• Embedded.fm
  Podcast, blogs about various Embedded topics.

• The Amp Hour
  Electronics podcast with Dave Jones (EEVBlog) and Chris Gammell.

Blogs & Newsletters

• Interrupt by Memfault
  Good resource for finding interesting news, articles, papers, etc.

• Hackaday
  Great place to explore interesting projects and get inspired.

Programming Languages

C

• The “Clockwise/Spiral Rule”
  Technique for parsing almost any complex C declaration.

• The Lost Art of Structure Packing
  Things you must know if you’re working on devices with constrained memory footprints.

• Bit Twiddling Hacks, The Aggregate Magic Algorithms
  I don’t endorse these techniques/algorithms in your code, but understanding what is going on is very powerful.

• IOCCC
  Fun for exploring how you can abuse the language, but please don’t do this in real code.

Programming Zines

• Paged Out!
  Great articles (and artwork) for the curious mind.

• tmp.0ut
  Zine for all things ELF.

• PoC||GTFO
  GitHub mirror for the now-defunct PoC||GTFO publications.

Networks

• Chris Greer’s Youtube Channel
  Videos on how to really get the most out of Wireshark.

Version Control

• Git from the Bottom Up
  Highly-regarded resource for understanding fundamentals of Git.

General CS Topics

• OMSCS Open Coureware
  Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS)

• Sam Rose’s visualizations about software
  For visual learners.

• Iceberg Memes: 1, 2
  When you want to go down the rabbit-hole.

Other Miscellaneous

• Bartosz Ciechanowski
  Amazing visualizations and deep dives exploring the physics and mathematics of how things work.

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Seasonal Learning Trackers

Each tracker below represents a season or period where I focus on specific topics and technologies, keeping track of resources that have been particularly valuable or interesting during that time.