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charlax/professional-programming

`charlax/professional-programming` is a large, actively maintained curated resource collection for software engineers. It is a markdown-heavy reference repo organized around topics like coding, architecture, debugging, CI, databases, observability, career growth, and many more. With about 50.7k stars, 4k forks, and recent commits in March 2026, it looks active and widely used as a learning/reference hub rather than an application codebase.

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Last pushed2026-03-23T00:37:45Z
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