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The Itch
October 12, 2020 21:00 - 3 minutes - 196 BytesThe Itch - Christine Dodrill's Blog https://christine.website/blog/the-itch-2020-10-11 Christine Dodrill Blog Contact Gallery Resume Talks Signal Boost Feeds GraphViz When Then Zen this post 100 days to offload Palisade contact me Selicre here 8245594b73df493e84d7910f9a0c232b97e46264 source code here
Making is Show Business now – alexdanco.com
October 12, 2020 20:59 - 16 minutes - 964 BytesNadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: it’s about open source projects, roles and... https://devonzuegel.com/post/making-is-show-business-now-alexdanco-com Devon Zuegel #clipping #cities #interpersonal #tools-for-thought #programming #travel podcast sponsor my work here email newsletter 💌 the first heyday of ope...
They're Made out of Meat
October 11, 2020 04:30 - 4 minutes - 275 BytesTerry Bisson, 1991 Someone did a radio play of this... "They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt... https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html radio play
On Being Bipolar
October 09, 2020 17:12 - 15 minutes - 914 BytesLiving with a mental illness means always trying to be one of the "good" sick https://thewalrus.ca/on-being-bipolar/?utm_source=Thinking+About+Things&utm_campaign=3d37bb009e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_1_2019_1_5_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33397823f0-3d37bb009e-412551669
Why I stopped reading HN | Sealed Abstract
October 08, 2020 17:26 - 13 minutes - 791 BytesThis post has been a long time in coming. I stopped reading HN over a month ago, so I've had some time to cool off. I've been struggling to put my thoughts https://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-i-stopped-reading-hn/index.html e-mail iOS developer for hire
Recycling was a lie — a big lie — to sell more plastic, industry experts say | CBC Documentaries
October 08, 2020 17:25 - 6 minutes - 393 BytesLess than 10 per cent of the plastics we’ve used have been recycled. A new documentary reveals why https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recycling-was-a-lie-a-big-lie-to-sell-more-plastic-industry-experts-say-1.5735618 sidelined by the pandemic many single-use plastics will be banned CBC News reports Plastic Wars less than 10 per cent of plastic waste has been recycled Plastic Wars Plastic Wars Plastic Wars Plastic Wars
MJD 59,128
October 06, 2020 19:41 - 4 minutes - 254 BytesCovid is the first global downgrade in the average human quality of life since World War 2. Some of the individual downgrades are adaptive for climate change as well, and will likely get locked in … https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/10/06/mjd-59128/ The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Immortality in the Ocean of Infinite Memories A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
Mansionism 2
October 05, 2020 01:42 - 9 minutes - 557 BytesThough I’m big on climate-resilient futures, I have an ambivalent relationship with density as a means to achieve them. I mostly grew up in company bungalows on generous-sized lots, and loved… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/10/04/mansionism-2-bungalows/ bungalows wrote Jorasanko Thakurbari Rabindrasangeet Visva Bharati University Chettiar mansions havelis building-milieu fit Zamindari system Amitabh Bachchan
Compress to impress — Remains of the Day
October 03, 2020 16:56 - 19 minutes - 1.15 KBOne of the funniest and most implausible things in movies is the grand speech by the general, usually the film's protagonist, in front of thousands of soldiers in the moments just before a critical battle. Examples abound, and the punch lines lodge in the memory, from Henry V (&quo https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2017/5/11/jpeg-your-ideas?utm_source=Thinking+About+Things&utm_campaign=f87dbcf8c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_1_2019_1_5_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33397823f0-f87dbcf8c8-412551669 Ab...
The open source paradox - <antirez>
October 03, 2020 15:07 - 2 minutes - 170 Bytesantirez 5 hours ago. 38047 views. A new idea is insinuating in social networks and programming communities. It's the proportionality between the money... http://antirez.com/news/134 <antirez> The open source paradox antirez comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by Disqus rss feed twitter google group old site
Pay the cost up front. Don't distribute it to others.
October 02, 2020 15:54 - 4 minutes - 271 BytesOur communication practices can be very disrupting. Remote work has taught me to be more considerate of how I communicate with others. We should treat other people's time as we like ours to be treated. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/pay-the-cost-upfront-dont-distribute-it-to-others golden rule be kind
The Interface comes to an end
October 02, 2020 02:41 - 10 minutes - 643 BytesThe Interface - Programming note: Here it is: the final edition of The Interface. Beginning Monday, this newsletter will transition to Platformer, a new publicat https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/282313 Platformer Platformer Zoom cancels talk by Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled at San Francisco State University Lawfare Project terrorist organization material support or resources Zoom saw a 300 percent increase in its user base between December and April its promise...
Coinbase bans politics
October 01, 2020 23:42 - 8 minutes - 501 BytesThe Interface - Programming notes: There’s a presidential debate tonight! Here’s how to watch it online. And here’s Politico’s handy “pre-bunk” of 10 lies you’re https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/281784 Platformer reported a noteworthy development about Facebook at the New York Times an antitrust case against the company could come by the end of the year be able to use it wherever you use Facebook apps James Vincent at The Verge allowing select users Watch Together f...
Facebook outruns the FTC
October 01, 2020 00:42 - 8 minutes - 501 BytesThe Interface - Programming note: This is the penultimate edition of The Interface! Next week this newsletter will evolve into Platformer, a new publication by m https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/282043 Platformer reported a noteworthy development about Facebook at the New York Times an antitrust case against the company could come by the end of the year be able to use it wherever you use Facebook apps James Vincent at The Verge allowing select users Watch Together f...
The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil
September 30, 2020 22:44 - 1 hour - 3.88 KBI read this next book, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, by Benn Steil, in an attempt to take the idea of a “Marshall Plan for post-Covid recovery” seriously. I’m glad I di… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/09/30/notes-the-marshall-plan-by-benn-steil/ The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War tweeted on March 28 the original thread The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War Morganthau Plan Bretton Woods Long Telegram UNRRA Halford Mackinder William Lockhart Clayton Potsdam SWNCC...
Coinbase bans politics
September 30, 2020 00:42 - 8 minutes - 482 BytesThe Interface - Programming notes: There’s a presidential debate tonight! Here’s how to watch it online. And here’s Politico’s handy “pre-bunk” of 10 lies you’re https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/281784 how to watch it online here’s Politico’s handy “pre-bunk” of 10 lies you’re likely to hear at the debate Platformer was beginning to remake the relationship between managers and their workforces I wrote about last week after listening to a summer’s worth of internal mee...
Facebook's Oversight Board gets some competition
September 29, 2020 00:41 - 6 minutes - 402 BytesThe Interface - Programming note: As you may have read, this will be the The Interface's final week in its current form. Next week, it will evolve into Platforme https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280778 why I’m making this move here the New York Times OneZero had contributed to a steady stream of controversies all summer the Oversight Board we’ve covered here before said it would not be operational before the election much frustration Olivia Solon at NBC News the ...
I was wrong. CRDTs are the future
September 28, 2020 16:47 - 12 minutes - 749 BytesI saw Martin Kleppmann's talk a few weeks ago about CRDTs, and I felt a deep sense of despair. Maybe all the work I've been doing for the past decade ... https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/ Martin Kleppmann’s talk Jupiter paper ShareJS glorified for() loop some helper functions optimized C Firepad ShareDB a scheme I gave a talk Benchmarks - look for B4 handles this fine Martin’s talk 54 minutes into his talk implementation of automerge in only about 100 lines of cod...
What makes a good estimator? | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded
September 27, 2020 00:07 - 17 minutes - 1021 BytesWhat makes a good estimator? What is an estimator? Why should I care? https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2020/09/24/what-makes-a-good-estimator/ Cramér-Rao lower bound Huber-White or Sandwich estimator
Frank Chimero · App Sprawl
September 25, 2020 18:50 - 4 minutes - 288 BytesFrank Chimero’s Personal Website https://frankchimero.com/blog/2020/app-sprawl/
Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk – Shopify Engineering
September 25, 2020 18:44 - 22 minutes - 1.31 KBPackwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages. https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/enforcing-modularity-rails-apps-packwerk Please register Elixir’s umbrella projects spaghetti code large classes that know too much componentization efforts Modulation ConstantResolver Zeitwerk Acyclic Dependency Principle Packwerk is now out in the wild and ready for you to try it out! report bugs contribution...
Anna Shipman
September 25, 2020 15:45 - 13 minutes - 796 Bytes17 September 2020 When I joined the Financial Times as Technical Director for FT.com, I inherited a team of around 50 engineers. One of the first thin... https://www.annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/meeting-everyone.html Anna Shipman JFDI CV Etc Follow me on Twitter children’s book publishing masters in Software Systems Open Source lead cross-stitch hobby tech strategy Meeting everyone on a new team The Multiple Faces of Technical Leadership Unlocking value with durable teams Why and how...
Can Telepath fix what Twitter broke? PLUS
September 25, 2020 00:41 - 15 minutes - 940 BytesThe Interface - In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. This seemed obvious https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280439 some users reported being harassed by other members Telepath serve healthy conversations have lower profit margins She writes sealioning
The Economic Power of Real-time Chat Spaces
September 24, 2020 19:01 - 3 minutes - 213 BytesTom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create. https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/09/22/coordinating-indies/ writing blogchains strategy RSS feed wiki about now consulting newsletter Erica Heinz Toby Shorin The Nature of the Firm transaction costs. a summary of Coase’s paper: http://interconnected.org/home/2014/12/23/corporations ResearchOps group Research Skills Framework January 10, 2020 https://www.wethos.co The Uncertainty Mindset https://otherinter.net/squad-wealth/
Permissionless Identities
September 24, 2020 19:01 - 6 minutes - 364 BytesHow the networked age is reinventing our careers https://littlefutures.substack.com/p/lf10-permissionless-identities Public Futures Working Identity 9 unconventional strategies for reinventing your career each post exploring new ideas that he’s interested in a proposal for a decentralized version of goodreads small b blogging The Uncertainty Mindset Fiercely Curious 3-min clip from a recent podcast Check Your Pulse a wonderful little tap essay noise.pictures /now page Who are y...
Epistemic Reserve Notes
September 24, 2020 00:42 - 8 minutes - 511 BytesThe metaphor of learning-as-purchasing pervades language — “are you buyin’ this?” There must be some kind of currency exchanged when you accept something new. As explored in Wittgenstein’s Re… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/09/23/epistemic-reserve-notes/ Wittgenstein’s Revenge, Wittgenstein’s Revenge presentation in 2014
Email Fwd: On Booze
September 23, 2020 20:06 - 16 minutes - 961 BytesThen I was drunk for many years, and then I died. -F. Scott Fitzgerald, On BoozeI love a good drink. This is simply the truth of me. The drinking didn... On Booze Laws Whiskey El Tequileño tequila a hot topic of conversation for years Good Vodka San Juan Artisan Distillers local ron caña or pitorro the business is also about sovereignty a litany of tax benefits
🚨 Mark in the Middle
September 23, 2020 14:42 - 4 minutes - 275 BytesThe Interface - In May, my sources started sharing secret recordings of meetings inside Facebook. Weekly Q&As with Mark Zuckerberg; briefings about civil rig https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280286 Mark in the Middle I hope you’ll give it a read
YouTube gets sued by its moderators
September 23, 2020 00:42 - 10 minutes - 640 BytesThe Interface - For big tech platforms, one of the more urgent questions to arise during the pandemic’s early months was how the forced closure of offices would https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280023 Here’s James Vincent in The Verge to profile current and former moderators for YouTube and Google just as at Facebook Queenie Wong at CNET YouTube agree to settle it, for $52 million
YouTube gets sued by its moderators
September 23, 2020 00:42 - 10 minutes - 640 BytesThe Interface - For big tech platforms, one of the more urgent questions to arise during the pandemic’s early months was how the forced closure of offices would https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280023 Here’s James Vincent in The Verge to profile current and former moderators for YouTube and Google just as at Facebook Queenie Wong at CNET YouTube agree to settle it, for $52 million
Staff Engineer at Samsara
September 22, 2020 21:11 - 19 minutes - 1.13 KBStories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles. https://staffeng.com/stories/stephen-wan github twitter linkedin Samsara Will's Staff archetypes shaping hero mindset Haruki Murakami Crafting Interpreters esbuild history of BART history of Xerox PARC an overview of modern Japanese culture
Better Babblers
September 22, 2020 21:10 - 5 minutes - 350 BytesYou can think of knowing how to write as knowing how to correlate words. Given no words, what first word should you write. Then given one word, what s... https://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/03/better-babblers.html
Go-to-market strategy for engineers
September 22, 2020 20:58 - 11 minutes - 686 BytesRoughly, a go-to-market strategy is the answer to the question "how will you sell what you've made?" Roughly, but not quite. https://defmacro.substack.com/p/go-to-market-strategy-for-engineers?ck_subscriber_id=237474298 Facebook's ad targeting API The fundamental equation of SaaS
TikTok's weekend of "Ekejechbecehggedkrrnikldebgtkjkddhfdenbhbkuk"
September 22, 2020 00:41 - 7 minutes - 455 BytesThe Interface - Mark Twain is credited with first saying that if you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait five minutes. The TikTok deal has followed https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/279085 credited would be banned from mobile app stores on Sunday preventing users from receiving critical security updates he supported Oracle’s bid to acquire a stake in TikTok and oversee some of its operations patriotic education Georgia Wells and Alex Leary in the Wall Str...
We need young programmers; we need old programmers
September 21, 2020 19:39 - 10 minutes - 634 BytesThe software industry loves young people, but old-timers serve an important purpose, too. https://blog.ploeh.dk/2020/09/14/we-need-young-programmers-we-need-old-programmers/ Évariste Galois Ada Lovelace Alan Turing On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem law of large numbers
On the use of a life
September 21, 2020 17:24 - 7 minutes - 438 BytesIn a recent discussion on Hacker News, a commenter posted the following question: Okay, so, what do we think about TarSnap? Dude was obviously a geniu... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-life.html Daemonic Dispatches Hacker News Tarsnap scrypt spiped kivaloo I've been creating and maintaining the FreeBSD/EC2 platform 44% of people running FreeBSD in the cloud use Amazon EC2 provide sponsorship for my efforts Millennium Problems Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer c...
Going Postal
September 20, 2020 21:31 - 16 minutes - 1013 BytesThe online edition of Bookforum Magazine. https://www.bookforum.com/print/2703/a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-social-media-and-the-death-drive-24171 Max Read
Work on what matters.
September 20, 2020 21:27 - 12 minutes - 776 BytesWe all have a finite amount of time to live, and within that mortal countdown we devote some fraction towards our work. Even for the most career-focused, your life will be filled by many things beyond work: supporting your family, children, exercise, being a mentor and a mentee, hobbies, and so the list goes on. This is the sign of a rich life, but one side-effect is that time to do your work will become increasingly scarce as you get deeper into your career. https://lethain.com/work-on-what...
"Who the F*ck Am I?" The Ultimate Guide to Personal Values | Mark Manson
September 20, 2020 04:43 - 26 minutes - 1.54 KBWhat are your most important personal values? Do you actually value what you say you do, or are you lying to yourself? And just who the hell are you anyway? https://markmanson.net/personal-values life purpose passion creative side people would get offended I’ve long made about the self-help world working harder setting and achieving goals disciplining our minds self-improvement obsessively focus on being happy feeling good all the time The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck your ph...
Emily Ratajkowski on Reclaiming Her Own Image
September 19, 2020 18:02 - 38 minutes - 2.23 KBWhen does a model own her own image? asks Emily Ratajkowski. In New York Magazine, the model writes about the men who took her image, including Richard Prince and Jonathan Leder, and buying herself back. https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html One Great Story Sign up here Richard Prince’s “Instagram Paintings.” Speaking out about the images Subscribe Now! Privacy Policy Terms of Service Terms Privacy Notice
Mark Zuckerberg on AR, VR, and "putting an Apple Watch on your face"
September 18, 2020 23:42 - 10 minutes - 656 BytesThe Interface - Social networks contain multitudes. One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and el https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278513 internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and election interference Facebook Connect summer escalated tensions announced Quest 2 The Verge’s Adi Robertson really liked it smart glasses Project Aria Echo VR “responsible innovation pri...
TikTok's Systrom shock
September 18, 2020 01:41 - 9 minutes - 565 BytesThe Interface - This week was the deadline for ByteDance to divorce itself of TikTok over security concerns, but at press time no deal has been struck. Instead, https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278780 the deadline for ByteDance to divorce itself of TikTok Here are Alex Sherman and Lauren Feiner at CNBC we covered here Monday Saleha Mohsin, Nick Wadhams, and Jennifer Jacobs at Bloomberg Elsewhere at Bloomberg here are David McCabe, Erin Griffith, Ana Swanson and Mike ...
Mark Zuckerberg on AR, VR, and "putting an Apple Watch on your face"
September 17, 2020 16:42 - 10 minutes - 602 BytesThe Interface - Social networks contain multitudes. One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and el https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278513 The Social Dilemma She writes inspired grotesque lynchings in India Alexis Madrigal notes credited with inspiring communicate in a way that appeals to a broad audience scooped her 6,600-word farewell memo in BuzzFeed
The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
September 16, 2020 23:41 - 18 minutes - 1.1 KBThis next book has probably my favorite so far of my pandemic reads. Kenneth Brower’s The Starship and the Canoe. It’s a strange paired biography of physicist Freeman Dyson and his son,… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/09/16/notes-the-starship-and-the-canoe/ The Starship and the Canoe Freeman Dyson a obitweet by Ross Andersen the original thread The Starship and the Canoe @andersen Turing’s Cathedral Hyperion Astounding delta-vee wrote a book about here’s another book #TeamAleut...
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company - Sahil Lavingia
September 16, 2020 02:42 - 19 minutes - 1.13 KBFeb 7, 2019 • 14 min readReflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar CompanyIn 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest - before... https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting April 2, 2011 February 7, 2018 May 14, 2018 October 1, 2013
Sophie Zhang and The Social Dilemma
September 16, 2020 01:41 - 9 minutes - 554 BytesThe Interface - I. A dilemmaOn Sunday night, after being encouraged to by friends and family, I hit play on a new documentary about our digital lives. Directed b https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278219 The Social Dilemma She writes inspired grotesque lynchings in India Alexis Madrigal notes credited with inspiring communicate in a way that appeals to a broad audience scooped her 6,600-word farewell memo in BuzzFeed
Sophie Zhang and The Social Dilemma
September 16, 2020 00:42 - 8 minutes - 491 BytesThe Interface - I. A dilemmaOn Sunday night, after being encouraged to by friends and family, I hit play on a new documentary about our digital lives. Directed b https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278219 The Social Dilemma inspired grotesque lynchings in India Alexis Madrigal notes credited with inspiring communicate in a way that appeals to a broad audience scooped her 6,600-word farewell memo in BuzzFeed
Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke…Is Now Officially Broke
September 15, 2020 18:10 - 7 minutes - 467 BytesIt took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now—and he couldn't be happier. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke/ Billionaires World's Billionaires Forbes 400 America's Richest Self-Made Women China's Richest India's Richest Indonesia's Richest Korea's Richest T...
TikTok picks a partner
September 15, 2020 01:41 - 5 minutes - 357 BytesThe Interface - On the eve of the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok, there was much movement and little certainty. The whole thing seemed to come down to thr https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/277241 trusted tech partner it had rejected Microsoft’s bid to acquire TikTok in favor of an extremely vague partnership with a 43-year-old enterprise software company New York Times reported are both separately negotiating for stakes in TikTok’s American business stated reaso...
Not So Simple: Notes from a Tech-Free Life by Mark Boyle
September 15, 2020 00:30 - 14 minutes - 884 BytesWho hasn’t dreamed of living a more wholesome, less frenetic life? Two years ago Mark Boyle foreswore modern technology altogether. We asked him what’s he’s learned since he ditched his smartphone and logged off social media. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/not-so-simple Go to first level navigation second Skip to Content Profile Settings Log Out Forget Password? Log In Register New and Noteworthy Biography and Memoir Children's Books Free Ebooks Devotionals...