A curated list of awesome "tech as dumpster fire" resources, inspired by and templated on awesome-python.
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Widely applicable dumpster fires.
- The Wisdom of James Mickens - The man, the myth, the legend.
- Programming Sucks - What it says on the tin.
Javascript language-specific dumpster fires.
- Wat -
{} + {} = NaN. Wat.
When the dumpsterfire explodes.
- SEC findings on Knight Capital - learn how Knight lost 460 million dollars in forty five minutes. See also John Allspaw's critique of these findings.
The dumpsterfire is coming from inside the house
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - learn by example from this record of health tech startup Theranos moving fast and threatening patient health.
- Clinkle Up In Smoke As Investors Want Their Money Back - "Though Clinkle didn't have a public product, many lauded the company and its young CEO for raising so much funding so early"... what could possibly go wrong?
- SEC complaint against Kik about Kin cryptocurrency - in short, winners don't do ICOs.
Not all failures are dumpsterfires.
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I will keep some pull requests open if I'm not sure whether those resources are truly awesome dumpster fires, you could vote for them by adding 👍 to them.
If you have any question about this opinionated list, do not hesitate to contact me @jhscott on Twitter or open an issue on GitHub.