50 Useful GitHub Repos Curated: From System Design to Free Programming Books
nikola_mr64990 · x · 2026-10-20
A developer curated a list of 50 useful GitHub repositories covering learning and engineering resources.
Highlights include:
- Learning: developer-roadmap, free-programming-books, coding-interview-university, the-book-of-secret-knowledge
- Engineering practice: system-design-primer, the-art-of-command-line, javascript-algorithms, 30-seconds-of-code
- Project-driven: build-your-own-x, project-based-learning, you-dont-know-js
- Tools & resources: public-apis (free APIs collection), awesome-selfhosted, tech-interview-handbook
The list also includes an AI misalignment testing repo (iFixAi), with direct links to each repository — a handy index for self-taught developers and job seekers.
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