The Best Articles in Programming
The most useful articles and videos in Programming from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
Refind focuses on timeless pieces and updates the list whenever new, must-read articles or videos are discovered.
Top 5 Programming Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Programming by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Videos
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Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
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Create an animated, circular progress bar
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"Lessons from building GitHub code search" by Luke Francl (Strange Loop 2023)
In this talk, I'll share some lessons we learned building a high-performance code search engine, designed to meet GitHub's large scale. GitHub code search is...
What is ...?
New to Programming? These articles make an excellent introduction.
Complete Introduction to the 30 Most Essential Data Structures & Algorithms
Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA) is often considered to be an intimidating topic - a common mis...
What is CORS?
Article explains what is CORS, popular among web developers CORS, what are the common problems and how to fix them.
What Is Code?
If you’re not a professional programmer but you’ve ever used a computer, this article is for you – seriously. You will learn what code is, what software is, how apps get written, and what different programming languages do and why they matter. Plus you’ll get details about other technical issues. Along the way, Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Paul Ford explains the culture and some of the psychology of programming. This delightfully animated article is essential for anyone not in the programming field who uses computers. getAbstract recommends it to everyone interested in learning more about programming, its culture and its principles.
What is Rust and why is it so popular?
Rust has been Stack Overflow's most loved language for four years in a row, indicating that many of those who have had the opportunity to use Rust have fallen in love with it. However, the roughly 97%…
Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms
A practical introduction on how to program Evolutionary Algorithms in Python to solve optimization tasks.
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How to Tool for Developer Productivity
Find out how to develop effective tooling in an efficient manner including build vs buy and success metrics for developer satisfaction & productivity
How To Perform Web Scraping With JavaScript And Selenium
This blog will help you learn about performing web scraping with JavaScript and Selenium.
How To Use Multithreading in Node.js
Node.js runs JavaScript code in a single thread, which means your code can do one task at a time and can’t use multiple cores. To remedy this, Node.js introd…
How to Efficiently Merge Arrays in JavaScript
Recently, I needed to combine two Array objects in JavaScript. I wanted an easy-to-read approach that ran fast. This led me to comparing a…
How To Use Web Components in React
Web Components enable us to develop entirely independently of frontend frameworks.
Trending
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Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid
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Spicing up text with text-emphasis in CSS
There are a lot of ways to style text in CSS. You can change the color, size, font, and even add effects like shadows and outlines. But recently, I learned about a sleek CSS property that I hadn’t…
What’s in a Name?
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Short Articles
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"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!"
Monday, February 26, 2024A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details…
Those five spare hours each week.
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs…
«There are some general rules. Smaller and pre-market fit companies are more likely to need their executives to build deep context.»
4 simple software engineering habits that transformed my productivity
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book…
The rise of the Model Designer
How designers should embrace shaping AI models.
How Gödel’s Proof Works
His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we’re still coming to grips with the consequences.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Programming.
Care beyond code: 7 best design practices for frontend developers—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Frontend can be about more than just code—we’re also the last bastion helping our teams against pesky design bugs! We share 7 best design practices for frontend engineers.
Getting started with Web Performance 🚀
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
Top Front-End Tools Of 2023 — Smashing Magazine
Useful front-end tools for CSS and JavaScript developers that were most popular last year and will help you speed up your development workflow. Let’s dive in!
A search engine in 80 lines of Python
February 05, 2024 · 26 mins · 4728 words Discussion on HackerNews. Last September I hopped on board with Wallapop as a Search Data Scientist and since then part of my work has been working with Solr,…
How To Center a Div
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we…
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Programming, including:
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How does Refind curate?
It’s a mix of human and algorithmic curation, following a number of steps:
- We monitor 10k+ sources and 1k+ thought leaders on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
- In addition, our users save links from around the web using our Save buttons and our extensions.
- Our algorithm processes 100k+ new links every day and uses external signals to find the most relevant ones, focusing on timeless pieces.
- Our community of active users gets the most relevant links every day, tailored to their interests. They provide feedback via implicit and explicit signals: open, read, listen, share, mark as read, read later, «More/less like this», etc.
- Our algorithm uses these internal signals to refine the selection.
- In addition, we have expert curators who manually curate niche topics.
The result: lists of the best and most useful articles on hundreds of topics.
How does Refind detect «timeless» pieces?
We focus on pieces with long shelf-lives—not news. We determine «timelessness» via a number of metrics, for example, the consumption pattern of links over time.
How many sources does Refind monitor?
We monitor 10k+ content sources on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
Who are the thought leaders in Programming?
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