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The List

Project ideas

• [ ] Write a tool to print RTM messages. See this article.
• [ ] Write a tool to manage my GitHub mirrors and upstreams.
• [ ] Blog article: systemd-networkd: MTU
• [ ] Blog article: systemd-networkd: BindCarrier.

Fundamentals

• [ ] Why is data structure alignment important?
  • [ ] https://hps.vi4io.org/_media/teaching/wintersemester_2013_2014/epc-14-haase-svenhendrik-alignmentinc-paper.pdf
• [ ] Floating-point numbers
• [ ] Learn about clock drift (time drift, or clock skew)
  • [ ] How to make sure docker's time syncs with that of the host?
  • [ ] Addressing Time Drift in Docker Desktop for Mac
  • [ ] Time Drift (NTP)
  • [ ] https://superuser.com/a/867928/224429
• Turing Machine & Turing Complete
  • [ ] Turing Machines
  • [ ] What is a Turing machine?
  • [ ] What is a Turing Machine?
  • [ ] What is Turing Complete?
  • [ ] Why can Conway’s Game of Life be classified as a universal machine?
• Stanford CS course browser

Can be important

• [ ] I wish I'd self-published sooner
• [ ] The Recurse Center

Security

• [ ] Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I
• [ ] How to Use SSH Agent Safely
• [ ] Neighbor has same SSID, Open Network
• [ ] Learn to use Hashicorp Vault
• [ ] GPG
  • [ ] GPG Tutorial
  • [ ] What is a "revocation certificate"?
  • [ ] The GNU Privacy Handbook
  • [ ] Also learn remote GPG signing:
  • [ ] Forwarding gpg-agent to a remote system over SSH
  • [ ] Remote GPG Agent
  • [ ] OpenPGP Best Practices
• [ ] NIST
  • [ ] Cybersecurity Framework
  • [ ] The NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Security Checklist And Best Practices
  • [ ] Security of Interactive and Automated Access Management Using Secure Shell (SSH)
• [ ] Managing SSH Keys for Automated Access - Current Recommended Practice
• [ ] Learn about Fail2ban
• [ ] This answer shows a way of using authorized_keys to restrict the use of the SSH capabilities. Learn more about it.
• [ ] OAuth 2.0 Simplified
• [ ] TUF: The Update Framework
  • [ ] The Update Framework Specification
  • [ ] Reference implementation
  • [ ] The videos
  • [ ] Understand the Notary service architecture

# ${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys
restrict,command="/bin/false",port-forwarding,permitopen="localhost:3306",permitopen="127.0.0.1:3306",permitopen="[::1]:3306" ssh-rsa AAAA...
restrict,command="/bin/false",port-forwarding,permitopen="localhost:3306",permitopen="127.0.0.1:3306",permitopen="[::1]:3306" ssh-rsa AAAB...
restrict,command="/bin/false",port-forwarding,permitopen="localhost:3306",permitopen="127.0.0.1:3306",permitopen="[::1]:3306" ssh-rsa AAAC...

• [ ] Check out stunnel: A proxy designed to add TLS encryption functionality to existing clients and servers without any changes in the programs' code.
• [ ] Learn about port knocking. Also see How to Use Port Knocking on Linux (and Why You Shouldn’t).
• [ ] This answer is an analysis of an SSH tunnel use. Need to study it further.
• [ ] Recommendations for applications using X.509 client certificates

OS/Linux/Ubuntu

• [ ] lions commentary on unix
• [ ] Read What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (I saved a copy in my E-books.)
• [ ] What is the difference between /dev/ttyUSB and /dev/ttyACM?
• [ ] How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
• [ ] Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
  • See the chapters here
  • And a few GitHub repositories:
  • JorritWillaert/Operating-systems-Three-easy-pieces
  • mthipparthi/operating-systems-three-easy-pieces
  • xxyzz/ostep-hw
• [ ] Learn Devicetree spec
  • PDF link
• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
  • [ ] Wikipedia article
  • [ ] What Is UEFI, and How Is It Different from BIOS?
• Ubuntu Secure Boot
  • [ ] Ubuntu Wiki
• DKMS
  • [ ] Ubuntu Help: DKMS
  • [ ] What does DKMS do? How do I use it?
• [ ] I've come across a memory corruption issue that I have no clue where to investigate and how to solve it. I probably need to learn about heap management of Linux/C.
  • [ ] Understanding the heap by breaking it. In case this file would be gone in the future, I uploaded a copy here: bh-usa-07-ferguson-WP.pdf. All the copyright belongs to its original author.
  • [ ] Book: Memory as a Programing Concept in C and C++ by Frantisek Franek
  • [ ] A Memory Allocator: This is an out-of-date article about the design of the malloc allocator. It doesn't reflect the most recent implementation but it is a good read about the initial design thoughts.
  • [ ] ptmalloc2 written by Wolfram Gloger: See Wolfram Gloger's malloc homepage.
• [ ] Linux kernel fault injection framework

Database

• [ ] Let's Build a Simple Database

Compiler

• [ ] Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler, part 1
• [ ] Stanford: CS 143: Compilers

Network

• [ ] Tun/Tap interface tutorial
• [ ] IPv6:
  • [ ] IPv6 Fundamentals for CCNA students
  • [ ] What Every Network Admin Should Know About IPv6
  • [ ] The Top 10 IPv6 RFCs You Should Read (And Why)
  • [ ] IPv6-related RFCs
• [ ] Computer Networking Fundamentals: Learning Series
• [ ] A toy DNS resolver
• [ ] The multiple meanings of "nameserver" and "DNS resolver"
• [ ] Book: Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO
• [ ] Guide to IP Layer Network Administration with Linux

Database

• [ ] Let's Build a Simple Database

Algorithms

• [ ] Stanford CS 161: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Web/HTTP

• [ ] Apache CGI - nonzero exit code
  • This is regarding the CGI script I worked on: It looks like if the Content-Type header was written completely, even if a command later exited with non-zero code, the web server still thought the content was generated and then returned 200 instead of 500.

OOP

• [ ] sourcemaking.com

Misc.

• [ ] 15-150: Principles of Functional Programming
• [ ] Euler’s Algorithm in NetworkX
• [ ] Graphs
• [ ] Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead
• [ ] Global Goals
• [ ] Understanding systemd’s predictable network device names
• [ ] Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack?!
• [ ] Learn about Chaos Engineering
• [ ] How you should choose which technology to learn next
• [ ] Plug and Prey: Malicious USB Devices: About how to disable a device using udev.
• [ ] The TTY demystified
  • [ ] Also look at this answer
• [ ] Comparing floating point numbers:
  • [ ] Comparing Floating Point Numbers, 2012 Edition
  • [ ] This SO question
• [ ] bash/zsh startup scripts. Refer to this answer.
• [ ] An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming
• [ ] About ED25519 vs RSA: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/90077/ssh-key-ed25519-vs-rsa
• [ ] Terminals and pseudoterminals
• [ ] The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection
• [ ] The Two Generals Problem
• [ ] What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
• [ ] WiFi:
  • [ ] How to Build your Own Wireless Router
  • [ ] How to Build your Own Wireless Router (Part 2)
  • [ ] How to Build your Own Wireless Router (Part 3)
• [ ] GPIO programming
  • [ ] An Introduction to GPIO Programming
  • [ ] Explore Hardware Capabilities of Raspberry Pi's GPIO Interface
• [ ] What a fun! Petoi Nybble
• [ ] Hyperfocal Distance Explained
• [ ] Python:
  • [ ] __str__ vs __repr__
• [ ] 王垠的博客
  • [ ] 相对论推导练习
  • [ ] Talk is not cheap
  • [ ] 理性的力量
• [ ] Oberon - The Overlooked Jewel
• [ ] System Design
  • [ ] System Design Master Template: How to Answer Any System Design Interview Question.
  • [ ] System Design Interview Survival Guide (2023): Preparation Strategies and Practical Tips
• [ ] Use GParted to increase disk size of a Linux native partition
• [ ] Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack?!
• [ ] A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
• [ ] Learn about the VS Code extension Dev Containers.
• [ ] Book: G. Polya - How to Solve It
• [ ] Book: Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
• [ ] The book: What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP
  • [ ] HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know - Part 1
  • [ ] HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know - Part 2
  • [ ] Software Engineering at Google
  • [ ] NIH: A high-level overview of AI ethics
  • [ ] AI Ethics as Applied Ethics

EE/Embedded

• Physics and Radio Electronics: Electronics devices and circuits

AI

• [ ] ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
• [ ] JushBJJ/Mr.-Ranedeer-AI-Tutor
• [ ] Need to learn more about prompt engineering.
• [ ] MIT: Ethics for Engineers: Artificial Intelligence
• [ ] SEP: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
• [ ] Ethics of AI Bias
• [ ] AI Ethics: Global Perspectives
• [ ] Ethical concerns mount as AI takes bigger decision-making role in more industries
• [ ] Coursera: AI Ethics: What It Is and Why It Matters

JavaScript

• [ ] UI design principles
  • iOS Design Themes
  • Design and code Windows apps
• [ ] Today I Learned: How mouse events really bubble in React
• [ ] Alexander Zlatkov's "How JavaScript Works" series:
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine + 5 tips on how to write optimized code
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: memory management + how to handle 4 common memory leaks
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: Event loop and the rise of Async programming + 5 ways to better coding with async/await
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: Deep dive into WebSockets and HTTP/2 with SSE + how to pick the right path
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: A comparison with WebAssembly + why in certain cases it’s better to use it over JavaScript
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: The building blocks of Web Workers + 5 cases when you should use them
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: Service Workers, their lifecycle and use cases
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: the mechanics of Web Push Notifications
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: tracking changes in the DOM using MutationObserver
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: the rendering engine and tips to optimize its performance
  • [ ] How JavaScript Works: Inside the Networking Layer + How to Optimize Its Performance and Security
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: Under the hood of CSS and JS animations + how to optimize their performance
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: Storage engines + how to choose the proper storage API
  • [ ] How JavaScript works: the internals of Shadow DOM + how to build self-contained components
• [ ] What happens when you npm start (and where babel comes into the picture)?
• [ ] How to Become a Great Front-End Engineer
• [ ] Read about JavaScript's module system history and evolution
  • [ ] [01] The state of JavaScript modules
  • [ ] [01-1] Introduction to ES Modules
  • [ ] [01-2] ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive
  • [ ] [02] JavaScript Modules: A Beginner’s Guide
  • [ ] [03] History and Background of JavaScript Module Loaders
  • [ ] [04] Understanding ES6 Modules via Their History
  • [ ] [05] Gist: A history of different JavaScript module formats
  • [ ] [06] Gist: Modules - History & Future
  • [ ] [07] Javascript Module Systems: A History Lesson
  • [ ] [08] A Brief History of Modularity
  • [ ] [09] Brief history of JavaScript Modules
  • [ ] [10] The JavaScript Modules Limbo
  • [ ] [11] Native ECMAScript modules - the first overview
  • [ ] [12] Chapter 10: Modules
  • [ ] [13] Basics of Modular JavaScript
  • [ ] [14] Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
  • [ ] [15] JavaScript code modules
  • [ ] [16] A Brief History of JavaScript
  • [ ] [17] Using JavaScript modules on the web
  • [ ] [18] The Deep Roots of Javascript Fatigue

C/C++

• [ ] How do I show the value of a #define at compile-time?
• [ ] Argument-Dependent Lookup (ADL)
  • [ ] What is "Argument-Dependent Lookup" (aka ADL, or "Koenig Lookup")?
  • [ ] Tip of the Week #49: Argument-Dependent Lookup
  • [ ] What is ADL?
  • [ ] C++ Core Guidelines: Surprises with Argument-Dependent Lookup
• [ ] Variadic Templates
  • [ ] C++11 : The three dots, that is variadic templates, part …
  • [ ] Variadic arguments
  • [ ] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2014/variadic-templates-in-c/
  • [ ] https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/c-insights-variadic-templates
  • [ ] https://kevinushey.github.io/blog/2016/01/27/introduction-to-c++-variadic-templates/
  • [ ] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/variadic-function-templates-c/
  • [ ] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/parameter_pack

Racket

• [ ] Racket programming language: Tutorials & Documentation

Software Testing

• [ ] www.pairwise.org
• [ ] PICT: Pairwise Independent Combinatorial Tool
• [ ] Pairwise Testing: A Best Practice That Isn’t

[yaobinwen]

from itertools import product

def generate_combinations(input_dict):
    keys = input_dict.keys()
    values = input_dict.values()

    # Use itertools.product to generate all combinations
    all_combinations = list(product(*values))

    # Combine keys with corresponding values in each combination
    result = [dict(zip(keys, combination)) for combination in all_combinations]

    return result

# Example usage:
input_dict = {
    "a": [1, 2],
    "b": [True, False],
}

combinations = generate_combinations(input_dict)

# Print the result
for combination in combinations:
    print(combination)