Eli Benderski by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Amazing systems programming tutorials. Whenever you Google a hard topic, his blog comes up.
Also has many great contributions on Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/users/8206/eli-bendersky
As of 2016, Eli worked at Google (reference). TODO before that, I had found his earlier info previously but lost it.
Eli focuses mostly on compiler toolchains.
WhatsApp by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
WhatsApp founder Jan Koum talks about their Journey by Roots (2017)
Source. Good talk, explains how everything happened in the perfect location at the perfect time: unemployed people who knew how to code, bought an iPhone, the next big platform, at its very beginning, they had just release the required push notifications API, and he travelled a lot and knew how much SMS sucked, especially international.
Terrell rotation by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
What you would see the moving rod look like on a photo of a length contraction experiment, as opposed as using two locally measured separate spacetime events to measure its length.
Great doubt by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
The type of feeling of confusion and distrut for your sense that some Koans attempt to instill.
Some notable references:
Since JavaScript devs are incapable of defining an unified import standard, this design pattern emerged where you just check every magic global one by one. Here's a demo where a Js library works on both the browser and from Node.js:

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