Calling Conventions Demystified https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1388/Calling-Conventions-Demystified (interesting tidbit: callee cleaning up stack reduces code size, e.g. __stdcall)
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LL and LR Parsing Demystified https://blog.reverberate.org/2013/07/ll-and-lr-parsing-demystified.html (really accessible blog post that gives an intuitive understanding of LL/LR parsing)
"Rather than optimise the first few hours[..]Emacs makes the subsequent years as productive as possible" Demystified http://t.co/wIb5Aa1G7A