http://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html
Long-form, old-school piece, but still great advice.
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software
Amen! One of the previous engineers where I once worked had spent lots and lots of time solving problems that didn't actually exist.
There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes
Scary stuff: clearly automotive networks need better security
The Extraordinary Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-extraordinary-ways-rhythm-shapes-our-lives/
Like I've said since college "everything resonates"
Friday, July 14, 2023
The modern way of serving images
https://kurtextrem.de/posts/modern-way-of-img
Making images truly responsive is hard. Here's the current thinking on the subject.
Linear Algebra
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/pages/syllabus/
Apparently one of the standout open courses from MIT. Linear Algebra.
Librarian is a static site generator inspired by Hugo and built in PHP
Yeah, I know. Why not just use Hugo? For all us PHP heads out there.
Crafting Songs with ChatGPT and Sonic Pi: A Creative Collaboration
Let's face it, almost all the purely AI-generated music is unlistenable. This is a more promising path: human and AI collaboration.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/superhuman-what-can-ai-do-in-30-minutes
Tour-de-force of what AI can help with in a half hour in business and marketing.
Top Small-Business Podcasts: 27 Picks
https://blog.hubspot.com/the-hustle/best-entrepreneur-podcasts
Some of the usual suspects, (Duct Tape Marketing, etc) but some new faces as well.
How to host your side-projects for free in 2023: from Auth to Database
https://dev.to/livecycle/how-to-host-your-side-projects-for-free-in-2023-from-auth-to-database-42im
A couple of these I hadn't heard of and look promising, such as Clerk.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
PyBroker Algorithmic Trading in Python with Machine Learning
https://www.pybroker.com/en/latest/index.html
Don't see any bank statements as proof, but still interesting
Visualizing Home Heating Sources
https://datainnovation.org/2023/03/visualizing-home-heating-sources/
Who knew propane was so big in the upper plains?
16 little UI design rules that make a big impact
https://www.adhamdannaway.com/blog/ui-design/16-ui-design-rules
Nice little case study on applying basic design principles.
The labor shortage is pushing American colleges into crisis, with the plunge in enrollment the worst ever recorded
But with the demographic cliff coming, you ain't seen nothing yet!
A Dismal Guide to AWS Billing
https://carlos.bueno.org/2023/03/aws-dismal-guide.html
The title says it all. There are some 3rd party tools, but the native tools suck.
Friday, March 10, 2023
More than half of Republicans support Christian nationalism, according to a new survey
Just a reminder: Christian Nationalism isn't Christian.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Softr vs Glide: Which Is the Best Low-Code Platform?
https://blog.lowcode.agency/softr-vs-glide-which-is-the-best-low-code-platform/
A good comparison of two leading platforms. tl;dr: in most things glide wis, but softr has more integrations.
Which web frontend architecture fits best?
https://www.workingsoftware.dev/frontend-rendering-techniques/
Good comparison of front-end web architectures, but leaves any conclusion to the reader.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Friday, March 3, 2023
Streamlit vs. Dash vs. Shiny vs. Voila vs. Flask vs. Jupyter
https://www.datarevenue.com/en-blog/data-dashboarding-streamlit-vs-dash-vs-shiny-vs-voila
Good compare of various dashboarding data systems. I still like streamlit.
Monday, February 6, 2023
Tag Systems
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/tag-systems
A taxonomy of various tagging schemes from hashtag, to tag=value to hierarchies.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
A faster way to build and share data apps
Open source python library for data visualizations and dashboards. Look more flexible than Tableau or Power BI
Machine Learning Simplified: A gentle introduction to supervised learning
Free (as in beer, for a while anyway) book about machine learning.
Thursday, January 26, 2023
A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt
https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/a-framework-for-prioritizing-tech-debt
Applying the concept of interest to tech debt and seeing where it takes us.
We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened
https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day
The many payoffs of paying down tech debt.
20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/
Some unexpected lessons, but seems spot-on to me.
AI Prompts and Tools
https://dev-doc.clickup.com/333/p/h/ad-1563600/ac0768d6b9afd1c
curated list of AI tools and prompts. I hope the curator can keep up.
Media companies abandon Drupal for a Jeff Bezos start-up
We'll see what kind of ecosystem it develops. It has a narrow but lucrative niche.
What if writing tests was a joyful experience?
https://blog.janestreet.com/the-joy-of-expect-tests/
an interesting take on tests. Is it still useful?
A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API
now that weather underground got sucked up by the weather channel, is this the next best option?
Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building/
why software churn kills software companies: oral lore. Can documentation help?