Open Learning

My personal points of interest! This list gets updated regularly, so check back if you want to see what I’m currently reading/watching through.

I very much enjoy the act of auto-didactic learning. Unfortunately, I have an extremely wide range of interests. I have put resources down below, and attempted to categorize as I could. My professional life is as over 10 years as a senior software engineer and recently in security engineering and appsec, so those will most likely make the majority of the content.

Software

Youtube

• General

  • Stablity Patterns & Antipatterns - Once you hit Release 1.0, your system will be living in the real world…
  • TDD, Where did it all go wrong? - One of many great Ian Cooper talks
  • How to Become a Great Software Architect • Eberhard Wolff • GOTO 2019 - Great Software Architecture talk by Eberhard Wolff

• Graphics

  • Atmosphere - One of many great videos by Sebastian Lague
  • Procedural Moons and Planets - Another great video by Sebastian Lague on procedural planets/moons
  • Interactive Computer Graphics - All of Cem Yuksel’s videos are great!
  • Computer Graphics (CMU 14-462/662) - As are Keenan Crane’s! Both have great papers to read as well.

• C++

  • Greg Law on GDB - 15 minutes on GDB-fu
  • Design Patterns: Facts and Misconceptions - Klaus Iglberger - CppCon 2021 - Good talk on design patterns in C++
  • Composable C++: Principles and Patterns - Ben Deane - CppCon 2021 - Great talk on composability in C++

• Golang

  • Go Anti-Patterns - Talk on anti-patterns by Edward Muller
  • The Scheduler Saga - Great dive into the hchan scheduler
  • Understanding Channels - Another great talk by Kavya Joshi, this time on golang channels
  • Functional Programming in Go - GopherCon 2017: Aaron Schlesinger - Functional Programming in Go

• Deep Learning

  • Introduction to DL with Python - Presentation by Alec Radford giving an overview of Deep Learning with Theano

• Hardware / Physical Architecture

  • Device Tree: hardware description for everybody! -

• Random Other

  • DynamoDB Under the Hood - Great deep dive into AWS DyanmoDB

Podcasts

• ACM Bytecast
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
• CppCast
• Dev Game Club
• Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering
• Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
• Programming Throwdown
• Rustacean Station
• Software Engineering Daily
• Software Engineering Radio
• Talk Python to Me
• The Bike Shed
• The Changelog

Blogs/Sites

• General

  • tech-blogs - Giant list of user submitted blogs with tags. Some good ones here.
  • Hacker News - Can’t go without posting this one
  • Why Tech Interviews are a Waste of Time
  • For those asking if a degree is worth it for software, I agree with the Mozart vs Salieri debate

• Graphics

  • Ray Tracing in One Weekend - Peter Shirley’s legendary book on ray tracing. Follow it up with the other two books in the series!
  • Render Hell - Just read it
  • Interplay of Light - Great graphics blog by Kostas Anagnostou
  • Inigo Quilez’s Site - One of the biggest people in graphics!
  • Jendrik Illner’s Site - Has a weekly collection of the biggest news/posts in graphics
  • The Book of Shaders - Gets you going with all things shaders
  • Learn OpenGL - Great starting point for learning OpenGL and some advanced lighting techniques
  • Scratchapixel - Another good starting point
  • 1000 Forms of Bunnies - Blog posts from Victor Li mostly related to UE but all good content
  • Aras Pranckevičius’s Site - Also on twitter with tons of great information
  • Physically Based Rendering - Web version of the book by Matt Pharr. Must read!
  • Alain Galvin’s Blog - More great resources on all things graphics related!
  • A Primer on Bézier Curves - Bezier curves!
  • A Survey of BRDF Representation for Computer Graphics
  • Calculating Stereo Pairs
  • Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques and Programming
  • Real-Time Rendering Resources - Giant collection of real time rendering stuff
  • Angelo Pesce’s blog - and twitter
  • Understanding Perlin Noise
  • Linearly Transformed Spherical Harmonics
  • Two Minute Papers/Károly Zsolnai-Fehér’s Blog - Károly Zsolnai-Fehér’s collection of things
  • Reintegration tracking - Some advanced fluid simulations
  • A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
  • Raymarching Distance Fields: Concepts and Implementation in Unity
  • Cem Yuksel’s CS 5610/6610 - Spring 2021 Interactive Computer Graphics
  • The Rendering of Jurassic World: Evolution
  • 3D Game Shaders For Beginners
  • Will push pixels for food - Gijs Richard Kaerts’s blog
  • From Particle to Volume Scattering of Light
  • Alan Zucconi’s blog
  • Ray Marching and Signed Distance Functions
  • The perspective projection matrix in Vulkan
  • Structure and Abstraction - Reddit post on people’s thoughts for graphics abstractions
  • Usual tricks in Shadertoy / GLSL
  • Shader Playground - Super useful for testing small snippets to see how they are acting
  • Graphics Codex - Collection of graphics stuff from Morgan McGuire/Nvidia
  • Monte Carlo Methods for Physically Based Volume Rendering
  • Ke-Sen Huang’s Home Page - Big collection of past Siggraph/Eurographics/HPG/Pacific Graphics/Many other conferences info
  • Rendering Particles with Compute Shaders
  • Life of a triangle - NVIDIA’s logical pipeline
  • Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering
  • The Simple, Flexible, Octasphere
  • Alex Tardif’s Site

• Papers

  • Importance Resampling for Global Illumination
  • Dan Casas’ Papers
  • Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation
  • Moving Frostbite to Physically Based Rendering 3.0
  • Sébastien Hillaire’s Website
  • Adaptive Numerical Cumulative Distribution Functions for Efficient Importance Sampling

Security

Youtube

• ISC Stormcast
• Classic Hak5
• John Hammond
• IppSec - Similar to John in that he does CTF writeups (mostly HTB)
• Security Now
• Seytonic
• Older List but Still Good Talks
• Conda - Interesting OSCP (and other) content

AppSec

• RPISEC Binary Exploitation - All the RPISEC courses have great info and there will be a few on these lists
• SEED Labs Project - Large collection that spans quite a few topics in computer security
• PortSwigger Academy
• An Awesome List for AppSec
• Another for Web

Forensics

• An Awesome List for DFIR
• Yet Another for DFIR!
• List for PCAP Stuff

Malware

• RPISEC Malware Course
• An Awesome List for Malware Stuff

Hardware

• RPISEC Hardware Reversing Course

Challenges / CTFs

• Large Collection of Reversing Challenges
• cryptopals - Fun crypto challenges
• CTFTime - Find a CTF every week of the year!

Mathematics / Statistics

Courses

• MicroMasters® Program in Statistics and Data Science by edX. Great intro to the field.
• Coursera - Machine Learning by Stanford University - online class by Andrew Ng. Great use case of mathematical principles.

Youtube

• Visualizing Data Using t-SNE - GoogleTechTalk by Laurens van der Maaten presenting t-SNE
• Visualizing and Understanding DNNs by Matt Zeiler presenting deconv-nets for visualizing DNNs
• Statistical Rethinking - Richard McElreath on Bayesian statistics

Blogs/Sites

• Data Colada - Statistics study analysis and replication
• Simply Statistics - Biostatisticians talking about all sorts of statistics
• A Gentle Introduction to Monte Carlo Sampling for Probability

Podcasts

• Not So Standard Deviations - Great statistics and data science podcast
• Data Skeptic - Interesting topics on statistical uses in computation

Helpful Visualizations

• Conditional Probability

Science and Engineering

Youtube

• The Clever Engineering of NASA’s Cryogenic Nano-Actuators - Great dive into the JWST actuators by Breaking Taps