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- ▌ Dean Large Scale Systems 2 · copyleftdev bundleDesign large-scale systems using Jeff Dean's pragmatic approach. Emphasizes performance intuition, building reliable systems from unreliable components, and solving problems at Google scale. Use when building infrastructure that must handle millions of QPS, petabytes of data, or global distribution.
- ▌ Bos Concurrency Rust · copyleftdevWrite Rust code in the style of Mara Bos, Rust library team lead and author of "Rust Atomics and Locks." Emphasizes low-level concurrency, atomics, and understanding the memory model. Use when writing concurrent or lock-free code.
- ▌ Cheney Practical Go · copyleftdevWrite Go code in the style of Dave Cheney, Go community leader. Emphasizes practical patterns, clear error handling, and performance awareness. Use when writing production Go that needs to be maintainable and performant.
- ▌ Engineer Name Style · copyleftdevWrite code in the style and philosophy of [Engineer Name], applying their design principles, patterns, and mental models. Use when writing [language] code that requires [their specialty].
- ▌ Uunet · copyleftdevEngineer at global scale in the style of UUNET (now Verizon Business). Emphasizes massive infrastructure resilience, "plumbing" the internet, pragmatic problem solving, and the evolution from moving bits to securing them (DBIR). Use when designing backbone networks, security operations centers, or large-scale distributed systems.
- ▌ Virtu Market Microstructure · copyleftdevBuild trading systems in the style of Virtu Financial, the leading electronic market maker and execution services firm. Emphasizes market microstructure, optimal execution, order routing, and minimizing market impact. Use when building execution algorithms, smart order routers, or analyzing market microstructure.
- ▌ Bach Exploratory Testing · copyleftdevTest software in the style of James Bach, pioneer of exploratory testing and context-driven testing. Emphasizes skilled human investigation, heuristics-based test design, and adapting to context rather than following rigid scripts. Use when designing test strategies, performing exploratory testing, or building thinking testers.
- ▌ Meyers Effective Cpp · copyleftdev bundleWrite C++ code following Scott Meyers' Effective C++ principles. Emphasizes practical wisdom, specific guidelines with clear rationale, and avoiding common pitfalls. Use when writing production C++ code that must be correct, maintainable, and efficient.
- ▌ Parent No Raw Loops · copyleftdevWrite C++ code following Sean Parent's "No Raw Loops" philosophy. Emphasizes algorithm-based thinking, composition over iteration, and treating code as mathematical reasoning. Use when refactoring or writing new C++ to maximize clarity and correctness.
- ▌ Sutter Exceptional Cpp · copyleftdevWrite C++ code following Herb Sutter's exceptional C++ principles. Emphasizes exception safety, const correctness, modern idioms, and defensive programming. Use when writing robust, production-quality C++ that must handle errors gracefully.
- ▌ Kennedy Mechanical Sympathy · copyleftdevWrite Go code in the style of Bill Kennedy, author of Go in Action. Emphasizes mechanical sympathy, data-oriented design, and understanding how Go code executes. Use when writing performance-critical Go or when teaching Go fundamentals.
- ▌ Hoare Rust Origins · copyleftdevWrite Rust code informed by Graydon Hoare's original vision for Rust. Emphasizes memory safety without GC, practical systems programming, and learning from C/C++ mistakes. Use when designing safe systems code or understanding Rust's fundamental choices.
- ▌ Turon API Design · copyleftdevWrite Rust code in the style of Aaron Turon, former Rust team lead. Emphasizes API design, async Rust, and ecosystem architecture. Use when designing public APIs, async systems, or library interfaces.
- ▌ Kelley Zig Philosophy · copyleftdev bundleWrite Zig code in the style of Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig. Emphasizes simplicity, explicit behavior, compile-time metaprogramming, and being a better C. Use when writing systems code that prioritizes clarity and safety.
- ▌ Thompson Unix Philosophy · copyleftdevWrite Go code in the style of Ken Thompson, co-creator of Go, Unix, and C. Emphasizes Unix philosophy, minimalism, and programs that do one thing well. Use when designing tools, CLIs, or systems that should be composable and focused.
- ▌ Levien Native UI Mastery · copyleftdev bundleBuild native UIs in the style of Raph Levien, architect of Druid, Xilem, and Vello. Emphasizes declarative reactive architecture, synchronized tree transformations, GPU-accelerated rendering, and idiomatic Rust patterns. Use when designing responsive, beautiful native UIs or 2D graphics systems.
- ▌ Citadel Low Latency Systems · copyleftdevBuild trading systems in the style of Citadel Securities, the world's largest market maker. Emphasizes ultra-low latency, deterministic execution, kernel bypass networking, and high-frequency trading infrastructure. Use when building latency-critical systems, market making engines, or high-performance trading platforms.
- ▌ De Shaw Computational Finance · copyleftdevBuild trading systems in the style of D.E. Shaw, the pioneering computational finance firm. Emphasizes systematic strategies, rigorous quantitative research, and world-class technology infrastructure. Use when building research platforms, systematic trading strategies, or quantitative finance infrastructure.
- ▌ Kay Inventing The Future · copyleftdevDesign and build software in the style of Alan Kay, inventor of object-oriented programming, Smalltalk, and the Dynabook concept. Emphasizes message-passing over method-calling, late binding, biological metaphors for system design, and building systems that can evolve. Use when designing extensible architectures, programming environments, or systems meant to outlast their creators.
- ▌ Stepanov Generic Programming · copyleftdevWrite C++ code following Alexander Stepanov's generic programming principles. Emphasizes algorithms over data structures, concepts as requirements, and mathematical rigor in interface design. Use when designing reusable algorithms or data structures that must work across types.
- ▌ Griesemer Precise Go · copyleftdevWrite Go code in the style of Robert Griesemer, co-creator of Go. Emphasizes clean syntax, precise semantics, and well-defined type system behavior. Use when designing APIs, type hierarchies, or code that requires precise specification.
- ▌ Reitz API Design · copyleftdevWrite Python code in the style of Kenneth Reitz, creator of Requests. Emphasizes beautiful API design, simplicity for users, and the "for humans" philosophy. Use when designing libraries, APIs, or any interface that other developers will consume.
- ▌ Klabnik Teaching Rust · copyleftdevWrite Rust code in the style of Steve Klabnik, author of "The Rust Programming Language." Emphasizes clear, idiomatic code that teaches as it goes. Use when writing example code, documentation, or code that others will learn from.
- ▌ Nichols Practical Rust · copyleftdevWrite Rust code in the style of Carol Nichols, co-author of The Rust Book. Emphasizes practical patterns, clear explanations, and real-world applicability. Use when writing production Rust or explaining Rust to others.
- ▌ Blow Compiler Gamedev · copyleftdevDesign languages and write game engine code in the style of Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid, The Witness, and the Jai programming language. Emphasizes programmer productivity, compile-time execution, and rejecting complexity that doesn't serve the programmer. Use when designing languages, game engines, or performance-critical creative tools.
- ▌ Pall Jit Mastery · copyleftdevWrite high-performance JIT compilers and interpreters in the style of Mike Pall, creator of LuaJIT. Emphasizes trace-based compilation, aggressive optimization, and understanding CPU microarchitecture. Use when building JITs, interpreters, or any code where every cycle counts.
- ▌ Lane API Evangelist · copyleftdevDesign APIs using Kin Lane's "API Evangelist" philosophy. Emphasizes Design-First (OpenAPI), governance, treating APIs as products, and the political/business impact of interfaces. Use when building public platforms or large-scale internal ecosystems.
- ▌ Pavlo Database Performance · copyleftdevOptimize databases in the style of Andy Pavlo, CMU professor and database performance expert. Emphasizes understanding internals, benchmarking rigorously, and making informed architectural choices. Use when tuning query performance, designing storage engines, or evaluating database technologies.
- ▌ Matsakis Ownership Mastery · copyleftdev bundleWrite Rust code in the style of Niko Matsakis, Rust language team lead. Emphasizes deep understanding of ownership, lifetimes, and the borrow checker. Use when working with complex lifetime scenarios or designing APIs that interact with the ownership system.
- ▌ Hashicorp · copyleftdevBuild systems and organizations using the "Tao of HashiCorp". Emphasizes workflows over technologies, simple modular composable tools, immutability, and versioning driven by code. Use when designing platform engineering initiatives, DevOps workflows, or infrastructure automation.
- ▌ Two Sigma Ml At Scale · copyleftdevBuild trading systems in the style of Two Sigma, the systematic investment manager pioneering machine learning at scale. Emphasizes alternative data, distributed computing, feature engineering, and rigorous ML infrastructure. Use when building ML pipelines for alpha research, feature stores, or large-scale backtesting systems.
- ▌ Click Jvm Optimization · copyleftdevDesign JIT compilers and optimize managed runtimes in the style of Cliff Click, architect of the HotSpot JVM C2 compiler and creator of sea-of-nodes IR. Emphasizes advanced compiler optimizations, intermediate representation design, and making dynamic languages fast. Use when building JIT compilers, VMs, or working on compiler backends.
- ▌ Beck Test Driven Development · copyleftdevDevelop software in the style of Kent Beck, creator of Test-Driven Development and Extreme Programming. Emphasizes red-green-refactor, tests-first design, small steps, and emergent architecture. Use when writing new features, refactoring legacy code, or establishing development discipline.
- ▌ Stroustrup Cpp Style · copyleftdev bundleWrite C++ code in the style of Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++. Emphasizes type safety, resource management via RAII, zero-overhead abstractions, and direct hardware mapping. Use when designing C++ systems, APIs, or when clarity and efficiency must coexist.
- ▌ Beazley Deep Python · copyleftdevWrite Python code in the style of David Beazley, author of Python Cookbook. Emphasizes generators, coroutines, metaprogramming, and understanding Python's internals. Use when writing advanced Python that requires deep language mastery.
- ▌ Ramalho Fluent Python · copyleftdevWrite Python code in the style of Luciano Ramalho, author of Fluent Python. Emphasizes deep understanding of Python's data model, special methods, and advanced idioms. Use when writing code that leverages Python's full power elegantly.
- ▌ Cloudflare Performance Engineering · copyleftdevEngineer high-performance network systems in the style of Cloudflare's performance team. Emphasizes kernel bypass (XDP/eBPF), edge computing with V8 isolates, Rust for systems programming, smart routing, and measuring everything. Use when building globally distributed systems, DDoS mitigation, CDN infrastructure, or any system where every millisecond matters at massive scale.
- ▌ Google Sre · copyleftdev bundleApply Google's Site Reliability Engineering methodology. Emphasizes error budgets, SLO-driven operations, toil elimination, and blameless postmortems. Use when building and operating reliable services at scale.
- ▌ Mendez Async API · copyleftdevDesign event-driven architectures using Fran Méndez's "AsyncAPI" philosophy. Emphasizes Event-First design, treating message contracts with the same rigor as REST (AsyncAPI spec), and decoupling producers from consumers. Use when building message buses, IoT networks, or microservices that communicate asynchronously.
- ▌ Helland Distributed Data · copyleftdevDesign scalable data systems in the style of Pat Helland, distributed systems veteran from Tandem, Microsoft, and Amazon. Emphasizes life beyond distributed transactions, idempotency, and practical patterns for data at scale. Use when building systems that must scale beyond single-node ACID transactions.
- ▌ Eich Language Fundamentals · copyleftdevWrite JavaScript code with deep understanding of the language fundamentals as envisioned by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript. Emphasizes first-class functions, prototypes, and the dynamic nature of the language. Use when leveraging JavaScript's unique characteristics.
- ▌ Ronacher Pragmatic Design · copyleftdevWrite Python code in the style of Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask and Jinja2. Emphasizes pragmatic minimalism, explicit over implicit, and composable design. Use when building frameworks, libraries, or applications that need to be extensible and maintainable.
- ▌ Jane Street Functional Trading · copyleftdevBuild trading systems in the style of Jane Street, the elite market maker known for functional programming and intellectual rigor. Emphasizes OCaml, correctness by construction, real-time systems, and principled risk management. Use when building market making systems, pricing engines, or mission-critical financial software.
- ▌ Renaissance Statistical Arbitrage · copyleftdevBuild trading systems in the style of Renaissance Technologies, the most successful quantitative hedge fund in history. Emphasizes statistical arbitrage, signal processing, and rigorous scientific methodology. Use when developing alpha research, signal extraction, or systematic trading strategies.
- ▌ Bellard Minimalist Wizardry · copyleftdevWrite systems software in the style of Fabrice Bellard, creator of QEMU, FFmpeg, TinyCC, and JSLinux. Emphasizes extreme minimalism, solo mastery of complex domains, and making the impossible seem simple. Use when building emulators, compilers, codecs, or any system where performance and code density matter.
- ▌ Lattner Compiler Infrastructure · copyleftdevWrite compiler and toolchain code in the style of Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, Clang, Swift, and MLIR. Emphasizes modular compiler design, reusable infrastructure, progressive lowering, and pragmatic language evolution. Use when building compilers, language tools, or performance-critical infrastructure.
- ▌ Ritchie C Mastery · copyleftdevWrite systems code in the style of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and creator of C. Emphasizes clean abstraction, portable systems code, and the art of language design. Use when writing C or designing system interfaces.
- ▌ Stevens Network Protocols · copyleftdevUnderstand network protocols in the style of W. Richard Stevens, author of TCP/IP Illustrated. Emphasizes deep protocol understanding through packet analysis, layered thinking, and knowing exactly what happens at every byte. Use when debugging network issues, implementing protocols, or building networked applications.
- ▌ Bolton Rapid Software Testing · copyleftdevTest software in the style of Michael Bolton, Rapid Software Testing co-creator with James Bach. Emphasizes the distinction between testing and checking, critical thinking, oracles, and the social nature of quality. Use when designing test strategies, evaluating test automation, or developing critical thinking in testers.
- ▌ Maciver Hypothesis Testing · copyleftdevTest software in the style of David MacIver, creator of Hypothesis. Emphasizes sophisticated shrinking, example databases, stateful testing, and practical property-based testing in Python. Use when testing Python code with complex data structures, APIs, or stateful systems.
- ▌ Alexandrescu Modern Cpp Design · copyleftdevWrite C++ code following Andrei Alexandrescu's Modern C++ Design principles. Emphasizes policy-based design, template metaprogramming, and type-safe generic abstractions. Use when designing flexible, reusable libraries or when compile-time computation beats runtime overhead.
- ▌ Dodds Testing Practices · copyleftdevWrite JavaScript code in the style of Kent C. Dodds, testing advocate and React educator. Emphasizes testing best practices, React patterns, and developer productivity. Use when writing tests or building maintainable React applications.
- ▌ Hettinger Idiomatic Python · copyleftdev bundleWrite Python code in the style of Raymond Hettinger, Python core developer. Emphasizes beautiful, idiomatic code using iterators, generators, and built-in tools elegantly. Use when transforming code into clean, Pythonic solutions.
- ▌ Vanrossum Pythonic Style · copyleftdevWrite Python code in the style of Guido van Rossum, creator of Python. Emphasizes readability, simplicity, and the Pythonic way. Use when writing Python that should be clear, maintainable, and follow the language's design philosophy.
- ▌ Jump Trading Fpga Hft · copyleftdevBuild trading systems in the style of Jump Trading, the high-frequency trading firm pioneering FPGA-based trading. Emphasizes hardware acceleration, network optimization, and nanosecond-level execution. Use when building FPGA trading systems, network-optimized infrastructure, or ultra-low-latency order execution.
- ▌ Dean Large Scale Systems · copyleftdevDesign distributed systems in the style of Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow behind MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, and TensorFlow. Emphasizes practical large-scale system design, performance optimization, and building infrastructure that serves billions. Use when designing systems that must scale massively.
- ▌ Muratori Performance Aware · copyleftdevWrite performance-aware code in the style of Casey Muratori, creator of Handmade Hero and performance optimization educator. Emphasizes understanding what the hardware actually does, rejecting unnecessary abstraction, and measuring everything. Use when writing performance-critical code or when you need to understand what's really happening on the machine.
- ▌ Thompson Elegant Systems · copyleftdev bundleWrite systems code in the style of Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix, C, Go, UTF-8, and Plan 9. Emphasizes radical simplicity, elegant algorithms, and small composable tools. Use when designing systems that must endure.
- ▌ Torvalds Kernel Pragmatism · copyleftdev bundleWrite systems code in the style of Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git. Emphasizes pragmatic excellence, performance awareness, subsystem design, and uncompromising code review. Use when writing kernel-level code or high-performance systems.
- ▌ Fielding REST · copyleftdevDesign network-based software architectures using Roy Fielding's REST principles. Emphasizes the constraints of the web—statelessness, cacheability, uniform interfaces, and HATEOAS. Use when designing web APIs that must endure for decades.
- ▌ Jacobson Network Performance · copyleftdevEngineer network systems in the style of Van Jacobson, the architect of TCP congestion control who saved the internet from collapse. Emphasizes congestion avoidance, RTT-based adaptation, queue management, and understanding network dynamics. Use when optimizing network performance, implementing congestion control, or diagnosing latency issues.
- ▌ Osmani Patterns Performance · copyleftdevWrite JavaScript code in the style of Addy Osmani, author of "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns" and Chrome DevTools engineer. Emphasizes design patterns, performance optimization, and progressive web apps. Use when building performant, well-structured applications.
- ▌ Graham Hackers Painters · copyleftdevWrite code in the style of Paul Graham, essayist, Lisp advocate, and co-founder of Y Combinator. Emphasizes bottom-up programming, expressive power, rapid prototyping, and treating code as a creative medium. Use when building exploratory software, designing DSLs, or writing Lisp that should be as dense and powerful as prose.
- ▌ Hickey Simple Made Easy · copyleftdev bundleWrite functional code in the style of Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure. Emphasizes simplicity over easiness, immutability, data-oriented programming, and managing state explicitly. Use when designing systems that need to be understood and maintained.
- ▌ Wadler Monadic Elegance · copyleftdevWrite functional code in the style of Philip Wadler, type theorist and monad evangelist. Emphasizes monadic composition, type-driven design, and the deep connection between logic and computation. Use when designing composable abstractions or understanding categorical patterns.
- ▌ Hejlsberg Language Design · copyleftdevDesign languages and type systems in the style of Anders Hejlsberg, creator of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript. Emphasizes practical type systems, developer productivity, gradual typing, and IDE-driven language design. Use when designing languages, type systems, or developer tools.
- ▌ Hashimoto CLI UX · copyleftdevDesign CLI tools in the style of Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp. Emphasizes consistent command patterns, helpful error messages, progressive disclosure, and machine-readable output. Use when building command-line tools that developers will love.
- ▌ Abramov State Composition · copyleftdevWrite JavaScript code in the style of Dan Abramov, co-creator of Redux and React core team member. Emphasizes predictable state management, composition over inheritance, and developer experience. Use when building React applications or managing complex state.
- ▌ Simpson You Dont Know JS · copyleftdevWrite JavaScript code in the style of Kyle Simpson, author of "You Don't Know JS". Emphasizes deep understanding of JavaScript mechanics—scope, closures, this, prototypes, and async. Use when you need to truly understand JavaScript behavior.
- ▌ Stonebraker Database Architecture · copyleftdevDesign databases in the style of Michael Stonebraker, Turing Award winner and creator of Ingres, Postgres, VoltDB, and Vertica. Emphasizes clean architecture, separation of OLTP/OLAP, and building systems that last decades. Use when designing database internals, storage engines, or making fundamental architectural decisions.
- ▌ Polya How To Solve It · copyleftdevSolve problems in the style of George Pólya, mathematician and author of "How to Solve It." Emphasizes structured heuristics, analogy, decomposition, and working backward from the goal. Use when stuck on algorithmic problems, debugging complex systems, or designing solutions that require systematic creative thinking.
- ▌ Minervini Swing Trading · copyleftdevTrade swing setups in the style of Mark Minervini, 3x US Investing Champion with 220%+ annual returns. Emphasizes SEPA methodology, trend templates, volatility contraction patterns (VCP), and strict risk management. Use when swing trading momentum stocks, identifying breakout setups, or building systematic trend-following strategies.
- ▌ Lamport Formal Distributed · copyleftdev bundleDesign distributed systems in the style of Leslie Lamport, creator of Paxos, TLA+, and LaTeX. Emphasizes formal specification, logical time, and rigorous reasoning about concurrent systems. Use when designing consensus protocols or proving system correctness.
- ▌ S2 Geometry Spatial Indexing · copyleftdevIndex and query geospatial data using Google's S2 Geometry library. Emphasizes hierarchical cell decomposition, Hilbert curves for locality preservation, and efficient spatial operations on spherical geometry. Use when building location-based services, proximity search, geofencing, or any system that needs to efficiently query geographic data.
- ▌ Hughes Property Based Testing · copyleftdevTest software in the style of John Hughes, inventor of QuickCheck and property-based testing. Emphasizes specifying properties that should hold for all inputs, generating random test cases, and shrinking failures to minimal examples. Use when testing algorithms, data structures, parsers, serializers, or any code with clear invariants.
- ▌ Scarface Mean Reversion · copyleftdevTrade mean reversion setups in the style of Scarface Trades, the mean reversion specialist known for mathematical precision and statistical edge. Emphasizes standard deviation bands, RSI extremes, and calculated entries with defined risk. Use when trading overextended moves, fading extremes, or building systematic reversion strategies.
- ▌ Crockford Good Parts · copyleftdev bundleWrite JavaScript code in the style of Douglas Crockford, author of "JavaScript: The Good Parts". Emphasizes using only the reliable subset of JavaScript, avoiding problematic features, and writing clear, maintainable code. Use when writing robust, quality JavaScript.
- ▌ Feynman First Principles · copyleftdevThink and build in the style of Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate physicist and legendary problem solver. Emphasizes first-principles reasoning, playful exploration, ruthless simplification, and the Feynman Technique for deep understanding. Use when debugging impossible problems, designing from scratch, or when conventional wisdom has failed.
- ▌ Kleppmann Data Intensive · copyleftdevDesign distributed systems in the style of Martin Kleppmann, author of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications". Emphasizes understanding data systems deeply, making informed trade-offs, and building reliable data infrastructure. Use when designing databases, streaming systems, or data pipelines.
- ▌ Lipton Mutation Testing · copyleftdevEvaluate test quality in the style of Richard Lipton, father of mutation testing. Emphasizes injecting small faults (mutants) to measure test effectiveness, the competent programmer hypothesis, and the coupling effect. Use when assessing test suite quality, improving test coverage, or building mutation testing tools.
- ▌ Gray Transaction Systems · copyleftdev bundleDesign data systems using Jim Gray's principles of transaction processing and fault tolerance. Emphasizes ACID properties, recovery mechanisms, and the science of making systems reliable. Use when building databases, payment systems, or any system where data integrity is paramount.
- ▌ Peyton Jones Practical Haskell · copyleftdevWrite functional code in the style of Simon Peyton Jones, lead architect of GHC. Emphasizes practical laziness, compiler-friendly code, and making functional programming work in the real world. Use when writing performant Haskell or understanding evaluation strategies.
- ▌ Fowler · copyleftdevDesign systems using Martin Fowler's principles of refactoring, continuous integration, and patterns of enterprise application architecture. Emphasizes clean code, evolution over revolution, and writing code for humans first. Use when designing enterprise systems, planning refactors, or establishing engineering culture.
- ▌ Vogels Cloud Architecture · copyleftdev bundleDesign cloud-native systems using Werner Vogels' principles of failure-first design, eventual consistency, and API-driven architecture. Emphasizes building for failure, customer obsession, and practical distributed systems. Use when building AWS-scale services, microservices, or any system that must be highly available.
- ▌ Forensics Team · copyleftdevAnalyze network traffic and security incidents with the depth of an "Ultimate Forensics Team". Emphasizes deep packet analysis (PCAP) as the source of truth, OSI layer decomposition, and the use of native Linux tools to uncover temporal patterns, attack types, and attribution.
- ▌ Roth Detection Engineering · copyleftdev bundleApply Florian Roth's detection engineering methodology with YARA and Sigma rules. Emphasizes portable detection logic, community sharing, and signature quality. Use when creating detection rules that work across platforms.
- ▌ Lamport Distributed Systems · copyleftdev bundleDesign distributed systems using Leslie Lamport's rigorous approach. Emphasizes formal reasoning, logical time, consensus protocols, and state machine replication. Use when building systems where correctness under concurrency and partial failure is critical.
- ▌ Lampson System Design · copyleftdev bundleDesign systems using Butler Lampson's principles of abstraction, interfaces, and practical wisdom. Emphasizes clean abstractions, security foundations, and time-tested design hints. Use when making architectural decisions, designing APIs, or building systems that must evolve over decades.
- ▌ Google Material Design · copyleftdevDesign interfaces following Google's Material Design system, the unified visual language bridging digital and physical worlds. Emphasizes bold graphic design, intentional motion, adaptive layouts, and the material metaphor. Use when building modern, accessible, delightful user interfaces across platforms.
- ▌ Gettys Bufferbloat · copyleftdevEngineer low-latency networks in the style of Jim Gettys, discoverer of bufferbloat. Emphasizes understanding excessive buffering, queue management, latency under load, and the fq_codel solution. Use when diagnosing network latency issues, optimizing for real-time applications, or implementing queue management.
- ▌ Bianco Pyramid Of Pain · copyleftdev bundleApply David Bianco's threat hunting frameworks including the Pyramid of Pain and Threat Hunting Maturity Model. Emphasizes prioritizing detection by adversary cost and building mature hunting programs. Use when designing detection strategies or assessing hunting capability.
- ▌ Gremlin Enterprise Chaos · copyleftdev bundleApply Gremlin's enterprise chaos engineering methodology. Emphasizes categorized failure injection, safety controls, and structured experimentation. Use when implementing chaos engineering in enterprise environments with compliance requirements.
- ▌ Google Continuous Fuzzing · copyleftdev bundleApply Google's continuous fuzzing methodology using OSS-Fuzz and ClusterFuzz. Emphasizes coverage-guided fuzzing, automated bug triage, and integration into CI/CD. Use when building robust testing infrastructure or finding security vulnerabilities at scale.
- ▌ Netflix Chaos Engineering · copyleftdev bundleApply Netflix's chaos engineering methodology to build resilient systems. Emphasizes controlled failure injection, steady-state hypothesis testing, and building confidence through experimentation. Use when you need to verify system resilience under turbulent conditions.
- ▌ Tigerbeetle Deterministic Simulation · copyleftdevTest distributed systems in the style of TigerBeetle and Joran Dirk Greef, using deterministic simulation and time compression. Emphasizes controlling all non-determinism, simulating years of operation in minutes, and finding bugs that would take decades to manifest in production. Use when testing distributed systems, consensus protocols, or any system where correctness under failure is critical.
- ▌ Google Search Architecture · copyleftdevBuild search systems informed by Google's internal architecture as revealed in the May 2024 API Content Warehouse leak. Covers Ascorer ranking, NavBoost click signals, Twiddler re-ranking, index tiering, and entity-based retrieval. Use when designing large-scale search engines, ranking systems, or understanding how modern search actually works.
- ▌ Rodriguez Threat Hunter Playbook · copyleftdev bundleApply Roberto Rodriguez's threat hunting methodology with the Threat Hunter Playbook and HELK. Emphasizes documented hunts, open source infrastructure, and data-driven hunting. Use when building hunting programs or developing hunt playbooks.
- ▌ Mitre Attack Framework · copyleftdev bundleApply the MITRE ATT&CK framework for threat intelligence and detection. Provides a universal taxonomy of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Use when mapping threats, building detections, or assessing defensive coverage.
- ▌ Cox Tooling Excellence · copyleftdevWrite Go code in the style of Russ Cox, Go tech lead. Emphasizes tooling, module design, correctness, and backward compatibility. Use when designing packages, modules, or tools that others will depend on.
- ▌ Pike Simplicity First · copyleftdev bundleWrite Go code in the style of Rob Pike, co-creator of Go. Emphasizes radical simplicity, concurrency through communication, and composition over inheritance. Use when writing Go that should be clear, concurrent, and maintainable.