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  • Welcome to Woolgathering
  • A bit about me
  • ▶ Guitar
    • DIY Rubber Bridge for an acoustic guitar
    • A beginner guitar practice regimen
  • ▶ Leadership
    • Engineering manager resources
  • ▶ Other stuff
    • Digital gardens
    • Annual reflections
    • Quiet Tactile Games
    • Resources and notes on strategic and critical thinking
  • ▶ Neurodiversity
    • Adhd Goal Setting
    • Autism and fear as motivation
  • ▶ Reading lists
    • A reading list for turbulent times
  • ▶ Tech
    • Developer notebooks & journals
    • My personal programmer's library
    • Civic Tech resources
    • Playful tech resources
    • Stumbling toward a unified theory of the web
    • Utility CSS explorations
    • Tech resources by non cis-men
    • System Design resources
    • System Design interview cheat sheet
    • System Design core concepts cheat sheet
  • ▶ Writing
    • A guide to fiction writing

Playful tech resources

Over the years I’ve found a few resources to learn technical topics that teach in a more playful or gentle way, often with a focus on visual diagrams and illustrations.

Articles

  • GIT PURR! Git Commands Explained with Cats!
  • Denise Yu’s sketchnotes
  • Code Cartoons by Lin Clark
  • Explain like I’m five
  • Beginner concepts, with a focus on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Videos

  • Computer Science with Sy’s Cats
  • Laurie on Tech

Books

  • Gently Down the Stream by Mitch Seymour
  • Go Proverbs
  • Wizard Zines by Julia Evans
  • Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
  • The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes

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