My Favorite Dev Content Resources

Places to Search

devhints.io
QuickRef.me
Learn X in Y Minutes
- Single-page, code-as-documentation cheatsheets for many different languages.
devdocs.io
- Not really cheatsheets, but puts all the docs from various languages/libs together into one searchable app
javascript.info
jargon.js.org
- Dictionary for JS jargon
illustrated.dev
- "Illustrated explanations" of dev concepts, by Maggie Appleton
Ali Spittel's Coding Cheat Sheets
Nabeel Valley: Docs
- Live Website
- Source code / Markdown
Max Antonucci: Exocortext
Stefan Judis: TIL - Today I Learned
Cyanhall Cheatsheets
Zander Martineau - Notes
- Live Website
- Source Code
Michael Currin - Dev Cheatsheets
- Live Website
- Source Code
Yeongho Kim (aka yeonghoey) - /index
Šime Vidas: Web Platform News
secretGeek: til.secretgeek.net
Josh Branchaud: jbranchaud/til
Erik Lievaart: Erik's Cheat Sheet
cheat.sh
- Command line tool for pulling in and querying cheat sheets, or just use cURL, all from your terminal
- Pulls from a variety of other sources
- Open Source
simpl.info (Sam Dutton)
- Very cool collection of minimal / MVP examples of different web APIs, concepts, etc.
"JavaScript Deep Dive to Crack The JavaScript Interviews"
endoflife.date - for keeping track of EOL / LTS dates

free-for.dev (Free tiers of various platforms / tools)
Misc Collections
- sindresorhus/awesome - Meta/master collection of "awesome" lists
- Tiny Helpers (Single purpose online tools for web dev)
- @JoshWComeau's thread of free dev resources
- mrmartineau/awesome-web-dev-resources - Collection of web dev tools, packages, resources, etc.
  - Kind of similar to my elevator pitches page - each resource has a short sentence describing it.
- webgems.io - Assorted collection of links to dev resources... kind of random.
- "The Book of Secret Knowledge" - large single-page list of helpful dev tools and code snippets
"Api Coding" - Collection of APIs to integrate into your next project
"Everything.js" - A collection of (mostly) client-side JS libraries, and sentence or two about each
uhub/awesome-javascript - Another "awesome" collection of JS libraries, with blurbs for each
bestofjs.org - Collection of JS, HTML, and CSS libs. Helpful in that you can browse by tag, and refine with combinations.
Google Codelabs - Hundreds of guided tutorials, covering their own products (Firebase, Android, etc), as well as general topics (building a PWA, )

MDN Web Dev Docs
MDN InfoSec Docs
- Excellent cheatsheet / starting point for web security: /guidelines/web_security
javascript.info
Alligator.io
CSS Tricks
Flavio Copes
Get his FREE ebooks!!! Link
~~Scotch.io (aggregate)~~ (shuttered)
ZeroToMastery - resources page
JavaScript Garden
- Collection of the "quirky" parts of JS
YT: Fun, Fun, Function (Anything JS related)
Fireship 🔥
- 👉 Fireship YT Channel 👈
- Fireship website
Amelia Wattenberger

For some general framework overviews and comparison, make sure to check out my elevator pitches page.
A great resource for comparing across languages and frameworks is the TodoMVC approach. The idea is to improve upon the "hellow world" baseline (echoing out a string) and have the baseline be a simple todo tracker page. Then, have complete code examples for each language / framework.
- There is the original TodoMVC, which covers JavaScript frameworks, here
- There is also Todo-Backend, which covers different options and languages for building backends, such as .NET Core
NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
- A collection of the same scripts (based on a famous story) written in multiple different languages
- Similar to TodoMVC, but even more succinct - each script is simplistic and short, so it is good way to compare across languages
gothinkster/realworld
- A "real-world" example app (Medium.com clone) for any combination of popular front-end and back-end stacks.
- You can mix and match front-end with back-end
Websites that let you compare programming languages based on snippets or "programming idioms"
- Programming-Idioms.org
  - Take these with a grain of salt; I found some of the examples problematic
- Rosetta Code

Web Dev
- Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript, by Nicholas Zakas - Link, Amazon
  - Covers a lot of important fundamentals, but also is written in an extremely approachable way - makes a good refresher / reference as well
- "You Don't Know JS" - Link
  - Open-source book series by Kyle Simpson aka getify
- JavaScript for Impatient Programmers by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer (aka 2ality)
  - Free to read online!
- Front-End Masters: Front-end Developer Handbook
  - 2019 Edition: Github, Free Read Online
Electronics / engineering
- Practical Electronics for Inventors, by Scherz and Monk - Amazon
  - This book is awesome; the ultimate condensed electronics guide and reference.
  - Written so that not much, if any, prior knowledge of electronics is necessary: A-Z is covered in varying levels of detail
  - Great for getting started with building random hobby projects (Arduino, etc.)
This is a good Twitter thread for some design patterns / best practices type books.

Twitter!
- Tons of great accounts to follow
- Hashtags:
  - #DEVCommunity
  - #DevDiscuss
dev.to
VirtualCoffee
Slack / Discord
- tech-community-slacks
- Dev Exchange (C# focused)
- CodeEveryday
- junior-devs (Telegram)
- Many frameworks have their own discords, so just Google for them (for example, Vue, Gatsby, etc.)
Documentation: "Write the Docs"
Check for local meetups