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This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) / Node.js and io.js Developer Environment

Custom recipe to get OS X 10.11 El Capitan running from scratch with useful applications and Node.js Developer environment. I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after fresh install.

Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Custom recipe to get OS X 10.11 El Capitan running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. This is very similar (and currently mostly the same) as my 10.10 Yosemite setup recipe (as found on this gist https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/0726211d17020a6abc1f). Note that I expect this to change significantly as I install El Capitan several times.

I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. On average, I reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between distros.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your own needs.

#Install Ruby and Rails on El Capitan The following procedure was used to install the required components on El Capitan (clean install)

First make sure Xcode Command Line Tools are installed.
Open Terminal and enter: xcode-select --install you will be prompted to start the installation. Once finished proceed..

##Install Homebrew Important Notice: Homebrew and El Capitan, make sure to read the article!

Enter the following command: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

###Redux Egghead Video Notes###

####Introduction:#### Managing state in an application is critical, and is often done haphazardly. Redux provides a state container for JavaScript applications that will help your applications behave consistently.

Redux is an evolution of the ideas presented by Facebook's Flux, avoiding the complexity found in Flux by looking to how applications are built with the Elm language.

####1st principle of Redux:#### Everything that changes in your application including the data and ui options is contained in a single object called the state tree

	# using VirtualBox version $VBOX_VERSION

	FROM boot2docker/boot2docker
	RUN apt-get install p7zip-full

	RUN mkdir -p /vboxguest && \
	cd /vboxguest && \
	curl -L -o vboxguest.iso http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/$VBOX_VERSION/VBoxGuestAdditions_$VBOX_VERSION.iso && \
	7z x vboxguest.iso -ir'!VBoxLinuxAdditions.run' && \
	sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --noexec --target . && \

	###############################################################################
	# Version 1: using ‘apt-get install’
	# Installs using apt-get
	# Requires update to npm afterwards
	# Harder to get latest copy of node
	# Requires sudo to use npm
	###############################################################################

	# create new docker ubuntu container
	sudo docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash # drops you into container as root