Here is a list of resources I have found useful or just funny. I appended a short alternative title in cursive font to some entries.
Videos
Explaining programming concepts
Generic
- How to create a responsive HTML table by Kevin Powell
- Git your PR accepted. Rebase your changes like a pro by Daniel Magliola
- Engineering Documentation by Lorna Jane Mitchell
- How to Read Complex Code by Felienne Hermans
- The Selfish Programmer by Justin Searls
- Refactoring Live: Primitive Obsession by James Dabbs
- Nothing is Something by Sandi Metz
- Designing APIs: Less Data is More by Damir Svrtan
- Don’t Forget Your People by Emily Dovervich
- Overcoming Our Obsession with Stringly-Typed Ruby by Dave Copeland
- TDD on the Shoulders of Giants by Jared Norman
- Blank Page Panic! Creating Confidence with TDD by Elayne Juten
- Rails APIs: The Next Generation by Derek Carter
- Mentorship in Three Acts by Adam Cuppy
Ruby (on Rails)-specific
- Basic Rake by Jim Weirich (Intro to Rake)
- Building a Rails Controller From Scratch by Alex Kitchens
- Make awesome command line apps with ruby by Dave Copeland
- Ultra Light and Maintainable Rails Wizards by Andy Maleh
- What I Learned to Love About Ruby When I Switched To Python by Lauren Ellsworth (Why Ruby is Better than Python)
- Code Spelunking: teach yourself how Rails works by Jordan Raine (Good ways to research the internals of Rails)
- Do Your Views Know Too Much? by Jason Charnes (Decorator pattern, using Helpers to refactor views)
- The Little Engines That Could by Mina Slater (Rails Engines explained)
- The Secret Ingredient: How to Understand and Resolve Just… by Alan Ridlehoover (How to fix flaky tests)
Funny
- Ruby is the best Javascript by Kevin Kuchta
- V is for Vertigo (Bagpiper on a parachute)
- Appaling Visual Puns Nº 1 by Tom Scott (Sandwich)
- Appaling Visual Puns Nº 4 by Tom Scott (Light)
- Ten Illegal Things To Do In London by Tom Scott (We flew a kite in a public place)
Books
- Shape Up by Basecamp
- Getting Real by Basecamp
- Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger