Reading on The VikiD Truth

Web Development Reading List

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 03:02:45 +0400

Web Development Reading List

The web moves fast; good primers don’t. This list is a short shelf of pages that still repay reading – HTML structure, Open Graph tags, favicons done properly. I’ll add to it when something earns a permanent place rather than a week of hype.

Computing Videos and Articles

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:13:37 +0400

Computing Videos and Articles

A handful of talks and articles that changed how I think about software – not an algorithmically sorted ocean. Prefer one slow viewing with a notebook open over twenty tabs of background noise.

Learn Online the Vikid Way

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 02:16:52 +0400

Learn Online the Vikid Way

Here is the truth about learning computing online: the net is a library the size of a planet, and without a reading list you will stand in the doorway forever. The skill is not finding content – it is choosing a thin path and walking it until something clicks.

What it is, in plain words

Online learning for computing means using tutorials, books, courses, documentation, videos and repositories to build skill – usually alone, usually around a day job. It works astonishingly well if you treat it like apprenticeship (make things, show them, fix them) and fails when you treat it like television (watch, nod, forget).

Freedom in Computing

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:57:30 +0400

Freedom in Computing

date: 29 July 2016

It all started with Richard Stallman, or at least I tell myself that. I am not sure when I realised I wanted freedom in my computing.

But it did start with software or my inability to get the software I wanted in the early 90’s, namely Corel Draw. And now, if I do think of it rightly, it also started with the ‘blue screen of death’ and the amount of work I lost due to it.