Convenient, inspirational, and helpful resources on the web

curated by Maciej Matyjas

• Connect with me
• Blog posts
• Inspiration
• Web site inspiration
• Platforms
• APIs
• Rust
• Web Dev
• Managed PostgreSQL
• Books
• Basketball
• News

Connect with me

• LinkedIn - Happy to connect & message folks on LinkedIn
• GitHub - Portfolio of personal projects and open source contributions
• Exercism - Solutions to coding challenges in a variety of languages.

Blog posts

• Owning Your CODEOWNERS File - Howto post about the gotchas of CODEOWNERS files.
• Pros and Cons of GraphQL - Not entirely buying the GraphQL hype in 2018.
• The Story Behind the Stories - Writing about the editorial process at the Expedia Group blog

Inspiration

• Mirtha Dermisache - Her work layers the pleasure of writing expressively in a notebook with the potential of decoding the musings of ancient and extraterrestrial civilizations. Also in The Marginalian.
• aeon - Engaging and profound essays and video.
• Charlie Gerard - Creative technologist's side project portfolio.
• Max Hawkins - Random creative technologist.

Web site inspiration

• Coffee Diff
• Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design
• Bastian Allgeier(personal web site)

Platforms

• DNSimple - Minimalist DNS and domains servicing.
• Railway - Ultra easy hosting of applications and more.

APIs

• OpenAQ - Nonprofit community of air quality sensors and an API to access readings.
• github/public-apis - Vast directory of APIs.

Rust

• oas3-gen - Preferred generator for Rust clients and types from OpenAPI specification files. APIs

Web Dev

• Astro - Framework for generating fast, static web sites.
• Jamstack - Massive list of technology for building websites associated with the Jamstack philosophy.
• Elm - Strongly typed and well designed language (almost a framework) for web application development.

Managed PostgreSQL

• Xata
• Neon
• Tiger Data - was TimescaleDB
• Nile
• Supabase

Books

• The Marginalian - Maria Popova's notes on her reading of beautiful and meaningful books.

Basketball

• Posting and Toasting - New York Knicks focused basketball blog, lookout for posts by Matthew Miranda.
• kixstats - Data source for sneakers on feet of basketball players in the NBA, WNBA, and Euroleague.

News

• Crooked Timber - Intellectual discourse in a blog, feature multiple authors on a variety of subjects.
• InfoQ - Tech news for developers, the monthly software architect newsletter is something to look forward to!