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Typescript was created at Microsoft.

Learn

TypeScript Deep Dive by basarat is a good tutorial for TS. It helped me understand various terminology like what what package.json, tsconfig.json are. commonjs modules, exports; setting up projects for various target - node.js vs browsers etc.

Typescript Book by Simone Poggiali.

Cloud

Val Town -- If GitHub Gists could run And AWS Lambda was fun. Val Town is a social website to write and deploy TypeScript. Build APIs and schedule functions from your browser.

• Fascination of AWK | Volodymyr Gubarkov
• AWK technical notes | Volodymyr Gubarkov
• Python vs. awk - To awk or not
• Why Learn AWK? | Jonathan Palardy's Blog
• xonixx/intellij-awk: The missing IntelliJ IDEA language support plugin for AWK
• awk introduction - CLI text processing with GNU awk
• The AWK book's 60-line version of Make

Similar to Awk

• Tablespoon (tbsp) -- (tree-based source-processing language) is an awk-like language that operates on tree-sitter syntax trees.

Modern Java - an online book; a 2026 approach to learning Java in bite-sized lessons. Don't have to start in an IDE for one.

Internals

• Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust | Piotr Kołaczkowski
• Writing a Profiler in 240 Lines of Pure Java | Mostly nerdless

Articles

• Use Java for Everything (2014) and related Java in the small (2024).
• Java Best Practices | Jonathan Giles

Interesting libraries

Permazen Permazen is a ground-up rethink of Java persistence. It has been in production use in commercial software since 2015.

 Instead of starting from the storage technology side, it starts from the programming language side, asking the simple question, "What are the issues that are inherent to persistence programming, regardless of programming language or database storage technology, and how can they be addressed at the language level in the simplest, most correct, and most language-natural way?"

Why Tracebit is written in C#; Jan 2025. "Tracebit deploys and maintains tailored security canaries, proactively detecting intrusions across your organization.  From cloud infrastructure, to identity and endpoints."

bflat - C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling (small, selfcontained, and native executables)

• Comes with two standard libraries: one (DotNet) that is compatible with .NET and supports everything from console to JSON, and another (Zero) that is stripped to bare minimum and doesn't even have a GC.
• Run C# with no operating system, on bare metal
• Build native code or .NET bytecode
• Based on parts of the .NET 7 SDK
• Invoke bflat directly from terminal, integrate with a shell script, Makefile, or even MSBuild.