Reading

• critter(critter.blog)
• The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation” – Chelsea Troy(chelseatroy.com)
• The Generational Divide in Software Developers(hackernoon.com)
• How long should you work on a problem ?(lemire.me)
• Warum wir glauben, was wir glauben wollen(nzz.ch)
• Java for Everything(teamten.com)
• DataViz Dashboards for Developers w/ Visnu Pitiyanuvath - YouTube(youtube.com)
• Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours - Let's Encrypt(letsencrypt.org)
• Why I Still Use RSS | atthislink(atthis.link)
• How to find encoding of a file via script on Linux? - Stack Overflow(stackoverflow.com)
• Technical debt as a lack of understanding(daverupert.com)
• 14,000x Speedup - James Hiebert's Blog(james.hiebert.name)
• Don’t Pay for 95% | 5 Kids 1 Condo(5kids1condo.com)
• A Pipeline Made of Airbags(ferd.ca)
• Banks create money out of thin air, but it's less impressive than it sounds(attejuvonen.fi)
• All Your Passwords Are Belong To FPGA | Hackaday(hackaday.com)
• If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention | The Guardian(theguardian.com)
• Twilight of an era - The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh | Middle East & Africa | The Economist(economist.com)
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Keynotes(lastweekinaws.com)
• Building a high performance JSON parser(dave.cheney.net)
• LEGO blocks and organ transplants(johndcook.com)
• They Write the Right Stuff(fastcompany.com)
• How Fighting Poverty Accidentally Stopped Deforestation - Bloomberg(bloomberg.com)
• Is Dark Mode Such A Good Idea? - Kev Quirk(kevq.uk)
• Overcoming Bias : No Recent Automation Revolution(overcomingbias.com)
• How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History (Video)(youtube.com)
• Choose Boring Technology | Dan McKinley(mcfunley.com)
• You Can Pay Credit Suisse Not to Work There - Bloomberg(bloomberg.com)
• Software will eat software in a remote-first world - Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk(themargins.substack.com)
• The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism | Aeon Essays(aeon.co)
• 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)(gamasutra.com)
• The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet | WIRED(wired.com)
• Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years(theguardian.com)
• Consume less, create more | TJCX(tjcx.me)
• The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising - The Correspondent(thecorrespondent.com)
• PHP showing its maturity in release 7.4(lwn.net)
• UnclePaul | Paul Graham’s Thoughts on Parenting(unclepaul.io)
• The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice(kk.org)
• What Is Interesting About Factorio(fuseki.net)
• Fwd: oil(bloomberg.com)
• How we recovered over $300K of Bitcoin | reperiendi(reperiendi.wordpress.com)
• The Sauce of the Middle Ages | History Today(historytoday.com)
• The Second Golden Age of Blogging - Other Life(theotherlifenow.com)
• Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? | WIRED(wired.com)
• How To Build A Thrust Vectored Model Rocket (Video)(youtu.be)
• To Get Good, Go After The Metagame(commoncog.com)
• Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (PDF)(assets.amazon.science)
• Pen Testing Ships. A year in review | Pen Test Partners(pentestpartners.com)
• JWT is Awesome: Here's Why | The HFT Guy(thehftguy.com)
• Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth | The Guardian(theguardian.com)
• Yuval Noah Harari Gives the Really Big Picture | The New Yorker(newyorker.com)
• RETRY PATTERN(pradeeploganathan.com)
• Millions of tiny databases (PDF)(assets.amazon.science)
• An Economist’s Guide to Potty Training | The MIT Press Reader(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
• 95%-ile isn't that good(danluu.com)
• It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time(inc.com)
• Avoid News | Rolf Dobelli (PDF)(gwern.net)
• The paranoid fantasy behind Brexit | Fintan O'Toole(theguardian.com)
• You Don't Understand Compound Growth(whoisnnamdi.com)
• The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth | Conrad Bastable(conradbastable.com)
• Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion | The Guardian(theguardian.com)
• Comonadic Trees - Benjamin Kovach(kovach.me)
• The Mysterious Lawyer X — The California Sunday Magazine(story.californiasunday.com)
• What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?(nautil.us)
• The Germany Shock: The Largest Economy Nobody Understands | Conrad Bastable(conradbastable.com)
• The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? [Full Version] | Conrad Bastable(conradbastable.com)