Coding 102: Writing code other people can read
That bootcamp may have taught you to write code that works. But the next level is to write code that works with other people.
What Won't Change
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Infinite Grid
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Plain Text Accounting portal - plaintextaccounting.org
Type safety - Wikipedia
Better way to think when creating components
This advice will unblock you and avoid future pitfalls when building your components.
NoSQL: The Baby and the Bathwater - Marc's Blog
Textual - The Heisenbug lurking in your async code
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
The Cryptographic Doom Principle
When it comes to designing secure protocols, I have a principle that goes like this: if you have to perform any cryptographic operation before verifying the MAC on a message you’ve received, it will somehow inevitably lead to doom.
The unsafe language doom principle
In defence of pull requests | johnnyreilly
Some people feel that pull requests are a barrier to contribution. I disagree.
Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Machines Better for Humanity
Artificial intelligence has a problem: The biases of its creators are getting hard-coded into its future. Fei-Fei Li has a plan to fix that—by rebooting the field she helped invent.
AI’s Leading Lady: The Work of Fei-Fei Li
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is a computer scientist and researcher who has had a profound impact on the field of artificial intelligence (AI). With a…
SF’s Market Street Subway runs on Floppy Disks #Transportation #Floppy @sfstandard
The SF Municipal Transportation Agency is using rather outdated technology for crucial operations: 5.25-inch floppy disks. “Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of fiv…
MUNI Floppy
SF's Market Street Subway Is Running on Reagan-Era Technology: "Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drives," SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin told KQED's Priya David Clemens this week. "We have to employ programmers who are experts in the programming languages of the nineties in order to keep running our current system. So we have ...
SF’s Market Street Subway Is Running on Reagan-Era Technology
SFMTA runs trains on a storage format that can’t even hold a hi-res image.
Stop breaking the Web
An interactive exploration of an efficient algorithm for finding the outline of a two-dimensional metaball.
Continuous improvement beats 'tada' releases | Browser London
The term 'continuous improvement' isn't going to set any pulses racing, but it is proven to be the best way to make excellent software.
How Real-Time Database Design Boosts Total Cost of Ownership
A look at three pillars of effective performance and scalability.
Hacking the Tax Code - Schneier on Security
Multi-Model vs. Multi-Cloud
Sam Newman - Don't Call It A Platform
Regular Expressions make me feel like a powerful wizard - and that's not a good thing
(This is a rant because I’m exhausted after debugging something. If you’ve made RegEx your whole personality, I’m sorry.) The other day I had to fix a multi-line Regular Expressio…
Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity: Why Companies Must Build Safety Into Tech Products
Understanding Causal Trees
In causal inference, we are usually interested in estimating the causal effect of a treatment (a drug, ad, product, …) on an outcome of interest (a disease, firm revenue, customer satisfaction, …)…
MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead
Big data is dead. Long live easy data.
Is Mastodon a commons?
Glenn Fleishman has a lucid and helpful introduction to Mastodon in TidBITS that opens with this: Cast your mind back to the first time you experienced joy and wonder on the Internet. Do you worry …
Video Compression for Mere Mortals
Video Compression for Mere Mortals - Xe's Blog
Bridge Card Game History: Why Contract Bridge Evades Most People
Trying to understand why bridge is an influential enough game that the BBC felt it was deserving of its own dedicated video game console in the ’80s.