Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Here are some guidelines.

Good Candidates

Before contributing, make sure the new link you'd like to add is a good candidate.

Here is a non-restrictive list of items which are good candidates for inclusion in this awesome list.

Falsehood Articles

Articles following the falsehood scheme are prime candidates for inclusion in this awesome list.

These articles starts with the hypothesis that developers have a naive, simple view of the subject at hand. Then proceed to list a set of candid assumptions that might be held by the programmers. Each one is intentionally false, and in their best form illustrated by a counter-example.

A list of falsehood is crafted as a progression that is designed to refine concepts. Having read the whole list of falsehood, the reader should possess a global, if not complete, overview of the domain being targeted by the article, including most, if not all, its pitfalls, edges-cases and inconsistencies.

Sometimes, these kind of articles might provoke an emotional reaction and cause flipping table. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Because, the world is messy. Discovering the complexity of a domain that is simple in appearance will lead to frustrations. This is the sign of a great candidate for that list!

Articles featuring items that are applicable to one product (or a service) and one only can't be considered as generic enough and should be avoided.

Libraries

Programming libraries or modules are good candidates too, if they solve or reduce the complexities pointed to by the falsehood articles above.

That way we can put back tables in place. ┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

Data Structures

Data models and structures generic enough to cover and address most of the falsehoods are also welcome in this page.

Pull-Request and Issue

Search past and current issues and pull-requests for previous suggestions before making a new one, as yours may be a duplicate or a work in progress.
Only one list item per commit.
Only one commit per pull-request. Always squash commits after applying changes.
Check your spelling and grammar.
Remove any trailing whitespaces.
Use spaces, no tabs, for indention.
Send a pull-request with the reason why the linked resource is awesome.

Linting

First and foremost, have your pull-request pass the official Awesome List's linter. No extra work is required here as it is already integrated by the way of GitHub actions.

To run the linter locally, do:

$ npm install --global awesome-lint
$ awesome-lint

Additional rules

Here are some formatting style not enforced by the linter (yet), which are specific to this awesome list.

Cut long lines of text after 80 characters. Only exception is to let Markdown content be properly rendered.
If one of these rule conflict with the linter, the linter's rule should takes precedence. Apply it.

List items

Link title must be title-cased, AP style.
Link title must be stripped out of the "Programmers believe" part to keep it compact (we all know the scheme).
URL must use HTTPs protocol if available.
Keep descriptions concise, maximum number of characters is 350.

Sections

Sections must be alphabetically sorted.
Add a section if needed.
Eventually add a description to the section.

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