• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (James Iry)
• Always Bet On Text (graydon2)
• Cool Uris Don't Change (Tim Berners-Lee)
• Dongly Things (Douglas Adams)
• Go To Statement Considered Harmful (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
• How To Be A Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (Robert L. Read)
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code (Roedy Green)
• If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (Unknown)
• In praise of idleness (Bertrand Russell)
• No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (Fred Brooks)
• Obvious to you. Amazing to others. (Derek Sivers)
• On computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem or SCOOPING THE LOOP SNOOPER (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
• Programming Sucks (Peter Welch)
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (Peter Norvig)
• The Joel Test (Joel Spolsky)
• The Next 700 Programming Languages (pdf) (P.J. Landin)
• The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (Bruce F. Webster)
• Why Functional Programming Matters (pdf) (John Hughes)
• Why I hate frameworks (Benji Smith)
• Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (Poul Henning) by Robert L. Read

Mathematics

• A mathematician's lament

External Links

• http://worrydream.com/refs/ — a great cache of computer science pdfs, maintained by Bret Victor.
• Gist: download_pdfs.ps1 — a powershell script that downloads all files from Bret Victor's "refs" page (above)
• Extensive List of free programming books
• 600 online courses for free
• Evergreen Skills for Software Developers