Spokes.wiki
35 wikis, 1623 pages.
agentic-tooling-wiki
tools for building and running LLM agents — agent skills & the open skills standard (agentskills.io), agentic coding harnesses, orchestration / multi-agent coordination, and the products/frameworks packaging them (Claude Code, ADK, Gemini CLI, and the wider ecosystem)
248 pages
ai-governance-wiki
AI governance, policy & regulation — how AI is governed, regulated, and strategically steered across organizations and nations: risk/compliance frameworks & standards (EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, OECD), national AI strategies & regulatory regimes, responsible/trustworthy AI, and AI assurance, auditing & certification
41 pages
analytical-databases-wiki
analytical / OLAP databases and the data-engineering stack around them — columnar query engines across the embedded↔distributed spectrum (DuckDB, ClickHouse), data warehouses, real-time analytics platforms, and the managed services that package them (Tinybird); how analytical data is stored, scaled, and queried (distinct from transactional/OLTP databases)
15 pages
bit-manipulation-wiki
bit manipulation and low-level bitwise programming techniques — bit twiddling hacks, population count (popcount) / Hamming weight, branchless integer tricks (swap, abs, sign, min/max without branching), SWAR, and the canonical references that collect them (Sean Anderson's Bit Twiddling Hacks, Stephan Brumme's bits, Hacker's Delight)
12 pages
business-messaging-wiki
business & conversational messaging platforms and their developer APIs — the WhatsApp Business Platform as the founding, deepest corner (Cloud API, WhatsApp Business Accounts, message templates, webhooks, per-message pricing, and the BSP / Solution-Partner program), plus the sibling channels (RCS Business Messaging, Apple Messages for Business) and the client SDKs and intermediaries built over all of them — the messaging-transport layer beneath chat bots
21 pages
defensive-security-wiki
defending systems and software against attack — host & OS hardening against compliance benchmarks (CIS/STIG/NIST/PCI-DSS, OpenSCAP), security operations (SOC alert triage, detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response), and coordinated vulnerability response across the open-source supply chain (CVD, SIRT, disclosure governance) — the blue-team side of security, including the AI now being applied to all three
42 pages
dev-tooling-wiki
developer tooling and programming infrastructure — the systems-level tools and libraries used to **build, version, and ship** software: compilers and language toolchains **as build infrastructure** (implementation, performance, internals), version-control systems, serialization & data-interchange formats, and build/package tooling
21 pages
embedded-iot-wiki
embedded systems and the Internet of Things — computing at the device and edge layer: microcontrollers and mixed-signal silicon, single-board computers and edge-compute boards, the firmware / RTOS stack that runs on them, the IoT connectivity protocols and platforms that connect them, and the open-hardware / DIY culture that builds with them
24 pages
engineering-education-wiki
how software and ML engineers learn and are assessed — the large self-directed curricula, meta-curricula and roadmaps that teach the disciplines (CS fundamentals, system design, AI/ML engineering), the interview-preparation canon they mostly serve, and the pedagogy they encode (build-from-scratch vs curated pointers, capstones, spaced study plans)
26 pages
foss-applications-wiki
free and open-source software that end users run themselves — the applications and environments people install on machines they control (Android apps, desktop window managers, Windows-compatibility runtimes) and the services they host themselves instead of renting (self-hosted media and business platforms), together with the directories that catalogue open-source substitutes for proprietary products
14 pages
frontend-architecture-wiki
application architecture for client-facing software — how a large frontend or full-stack application is divided into parts, who owns each part, and what decides the structure: boundaries inside one codebase (feature-first layouts, layer separation, state ownership), composition across teams (micro-frontends, app shells, routing and communication between independently deployed units), and the frameworks and templates that make the decisions for you (full-stack meta-frameworks, declarative app compilers, SaaS boilerplates). The layer above the UI toolkit and below production operations
11 pages
game-engines-wiki
game engines and the real-time creation landscape across 2D and 3D — their technology, tooling, community, licensing/business models, and the AI tooling reshaping development. General-purpose 3D engines are the deepest corner (Godot, Unreal, Unity, O3DE); 2D and framework-based engines are in scope too (e.g. Flame on Flutter)
62 pages
knowledge-representation-wiki
formal knowledge representation and the semantic web — describing meaning so machines can reason over it: the RDF data model and its serializations, schema/ontology languages (RDFS, OWL, SHACL), query (SPARQL), shared vocabularies & structured data (schema.org), linked data and knowledge bases (Wikidata, DBpedia), and the tools for authoring ontologies
11 pages
llm-inference-wiki
the mechanics of LLM inference and serving — how a trained model turns a prompt into tokens and does it efficiently at scale: logits/softmax & sampling, prefill/decode, the KV cache, and continuous batching
31 pages
llm-providers-wiki
the LLM model & provider landscape — the labs/providers and their models, API access & pricing, open-weight vs proprietary & licensing, and capability/cost/speed benchmarks (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Meta/Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Moonshot, xAI, and the cloud resellers like Azure/Bedrock)
76 pages
loudspeaker-design-wiki
loudspeaker & electroacoustic design — how moving-coil drivers and their enclosures are engineered: Thiele/Small parameters (Fs, Qts, Vas, Bl, Xmax…), driver electromechanics, sealed vs. vented/bass-reflex enclosure alignments, frequency/impedance/phase response, crossovers, and the calculators DIY and professional speaker builders use
25 pages
machine-learning-wiki
machine learning as an engineering discipline — how models are built, trained, adapted, and shipped: classical ML algorithms and their internals (gradient descent, trees, boosting, clustering), model training & adaptation (fine-tuning, PEFT/LoRA/QLoRA, RL post-training) and the toolchains that run it, and the design and productionization of ML systems (industry system-design case studies, the demo→production gap)
46 pages
mathematics-wiki
mathematics as a subject in its own right — the bodies of theory that sit as infrastructure beneath the hub's applied spokes and are the subject of none of them: vector & multivariable calculus, real analysis, linear algebra, probability theory and its combinatorial foundations, mathematical statistics and inference, and Fourier / transform theory and signal analysis, taught from first principles in textbooks and course notes, together with the pedagogy that shapes them (level of rigour, exercise design, the computational tool assumed)
74 pages
music-tech-wiki
music technology for electronic sound creation & production — synthesizers and sound-source instruments (hardware, DIY/open-source, and repurposed lab/test equipment), audio effect & processing plugins (delay, filter, dynamics/OTT, saturation), and the gear, software, and techniques of electronic music-making
101 pages
operational-databases-wiki
transactional / operational (OLTP) databases and the tooling around them — row-oriented and distributed-SQL engines across the embedded↔distributed spectrum (SQLite-compatible embedded engines like Turso; sharded/distributed SQL like Vitess/PlanetScale), the sharding, replication, and consistency mechanisms that scale them, and the cross-cutting tools for working with databases; the operational sibling of analytical-databases-wiki (distinct from analytical/OLAP columnar stores)
30 pages
optimization-algorithms-wiki
metaheuristic & population-based optimization algorithms — evolutionary, swarm, and nature/behavior-inspired global optimizers (and relatives): how they explore search spaces, their mechanisms & parameters, and their comparative benchmarking (rankings, test functions, dimensionality, convergence)
41 pages
osint-wiki
open-source intelligence (OSINT) — gathering and analyzing publicly available information for intelligence and reconnaissance, and especially the AI/LLM agents now automating it (autonomous and multi-agent OSINT tools, people/profile-building, username/IP/DNS reconnaissance), plus the social-engineering reconnaissance and resources around the human element of security
29 pages
philosophy-wiki
the history of philosophy — major philosophers and their systems of thought across metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and phenomenology, and the arguments and lineages connecting them (rationalism, the mind–body problem, substance, nihilism, phenomenology, Stoicism; the nature of the self, being, and world), in any tradition — Western and non-Western alike (Neo-Confucian li and xin, and whatever arrives next)
24 pages
platform-ops-wiki
production platform engineering, SRE & observability — running and operating cloud-native distributed systems in production (Kubernetes/CNCF platform ops, SRE / AIOps & incident response, observability & service topology), including the AI agents now being applied to operations
50 pages
programming-languages-wiki
programming languages as subjects in their own right — their design and the paradigms behind it (memory and ownership models, type systems, concurrency models, immutability, code-as-data), the runtimes and hosts they target, the governance and evolution processes that change them, and the idiomatic program design their features make possible
57 pages
psychology-wiki
psychology and the mind sciences — how minds judge, perceive, and create: the heuristics-and-biases tradition of judgment & decision-making (Kahneman/Tversky, System 1/2, the focusing illusion), depth / analytical psychology and theories of creativity (Jung, the unconscious), and the empirical study of perception and learning (psychophysics, perceptual world-models). The empirical and clinical study of mind, distinct from philosophy of mind
72 pages
quant-trading-wiki
quantitative & algorithmic trading systems — the software and machine learning that trades financial markets: financial time-series / market-prediction foundation models, reinforcement-learning trading frameworks, and event-driven algorithmic-trading & backtesting engines — spanning the prediction, strategy, and execution layers, plus the hyperparameter optimization and evaluation that tune and validate them
53 pages
research-wiki
machines operating over file-based markdown to manage and mechanize thought — the knowledge-management / tools-for-thought lineage (memex, Zettelkasten, PKM) and formal methods / theorem proving — and the dynamics by which ideas & technologies diffuse and get adopted (diffusion of innovation, technology-adoption curves, trend analysis)
130 pages
search-marketing-wiki
search, SEO & performance marketing — both the AI transformation of search (AI overviews, generative engine optimization, agentic commerce, no-AI alternatives, market shifts) and traditional/performance search marketing (organic SEO operations, paid PPC, affiliate) — strategy, visibility, and measurement
64 pages
speech-audio-wiki
speech & audio AI models and the providers behind them — text-to-speech (TTS) / speech synthesis, speech-to-text (STT / ASR), and audio / music generation — their architectures (autoregressive / neural-codec / diffusion / state-space / flow), voice & audio quality, latency & error-rate benchmarks, licensing, and the open-weight-vs-proprietary market
61 pages
static-site-wiki
static site generators and the Jamstack architecture — the tools, comparisons, and the shifting web-publishing / CMS landscape they are displacing (Astro, Eleventy, Hugo, Jekyll, Docusaurus; the WordPress decline)
24 pages
ui-frameworks-wiki
UI frameworks, component libraries & design systems — the software toolkits for building user interfaces across surfaces (terminal and web), their rendering/reconciler internals (native cores, React/Solid reconcilers, design tokens & theming), and the shift toward agent-buildable UI
13 pages
web-browsers-wiki
web browsers and the shifting browser market — the Chrome/Safari incumbents and the wave of alternatives challenging them, with the AI/agentic transformation of the browser as the founding, deepest corner (AI browsers, in-browser assistants, and agentic "act-on-your-behalf" browsing), alongside the privacy-first and productivity/niche browser movements
30 pages