Google Testing blog: https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-fu...

Tintin - Tibet, Black lotus, Cigars of the Pharaoh, Seven Crystal Balls

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is: https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/ Beautiful translation and purports on one of the most widely read and revered text in India.

Lectures archive: https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures

The Stanford linkrot bandits have struck again I’m afraid.

For what it's worth (and though I do have some complaints about stanfordonline), the URL https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures works fine for me.

The YouTube channel seems to have them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94E35692EB9D36F3

Thanks for that. They seem to have been embarrassed into putting the stanford.edu page back up for another few months. I think my first encounter with Stanford's website archival policies was when I found that they'd shot an old, once-much-hyped interview with Alvy Ray Smith into the void: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28064844 . Anything on the Stanford website which purports to be education or history is a marketing op wearing a smiling mask. That in itself would be largely fine, but when the marketing objectives have been met they'll delete everything with what seems to be a contemptuous glee, refusing to even use the Wayback Machine. Doesn't say much for that institution.

Honorary mention: https://www.welchlabs.com/blog/2015/8/28/imaginary-numbers-a...

Advent of Code challenges

This is the best content on this topic - a 2023 video by Reducible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEMxqreA10

Unrolled version: https://typefully.com/DanHollick/blending-modes-KrBa0JP

'Stories of your Life and Others' and 'Exhalation' - by Ted Chiang. In his short stories, he introduces advanced concepts from mathematics, philosophy, and computer science in a way that’s subtly woven into captivating narratives.

Strongly second Exhalation by Ted Chiang. "The Life Cycle of Software Objects" is especially compelling.