For now, every month I will try to keep posting digest with the links to all blog posts / books / interesting materials, which I have found very useful or maybe just interesting for myself.

• LLVM for Grad Students. Great explanation about LLVM basics. Shows how you can implement your own LLVM passes to hack LLVM. When I was working in Microsoft one of the tools I was responsible for was Instrumentation profiler and Coverage tool. This tool can instrument functions/basic blocks in the specified libraries to insert probes, which are code blocks reporting entering/exiting to/from these blocks. When you execute your code with this probes you can collect this information to measure: code coverage and/or time execution off all blocks or functions. Obviously we have not used LLVM, we used Microsoft own solution for that. I just wish that it was so well designed as LLVM. So this basically gives you another idea what you can do with LLVM.
• How DNS Works. You though you know how DNS works? Look on this comic. If you will find it useful and interesting - I suggest to read High Performance Browser Networking, which can give you deep details about network you should know.
• AWK GTF! How to Analyze a Transcriptome Like a Pro. If you are command line beginner, know basics of AWK, don’t have a time to read man awk - these 3 articles are for you. Nice example, good explanation about how powerful is awk.
• Symas Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB). You probably know SQLite, so LMDB has a similar concept to be self-contained, serverless, zero-configurable database, but in addition it is ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store. If MongoDB already made you lazy and to not worry at all about schemas and you don’t need/want to use DB server - LMDB is for you.
• Unix Toolbox. It is a little bit out of date (last update in 2012, relying on copyright), but still looks like very useful cheatsheet.
• From Bash To Z Shell. Great book. A little bit out of date, but has a lot of useful information about all different kind of shells.
• Learn X in Y minutes. If you want to refresh your knowledge about some language you used in past - great way to start.

See Also

• Windows vs Ubuntu vs Mac OS X