Today via Hacker News: You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance.
Author Archives: Jay Jay
How To Win At Tech Publishing
From How To Win At Tech Publishing:
If, however, you’ve accumulated a lot of research on a personal topic and want to gather the threads together and reach some personal conclusions, long-form non-fiction is probably the only tool that’s going to work, whether you publish or not.
How to save up to 500€/year switching from Mailchimp to Open Source Mailtrain and AWS SES
This on lobsters today: How to save up to 500€/year switching from Mailchimp to Open Source Mailtrain and AWS SES.
Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years
This on r/programming today: Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years. A nice run down on contemporary JavaScript…
Simple things are complicated: making a show password option
An interesting article today: Simple things are complicated: making a show password option. It referenced Government Design Principles: Make things open: it makes things better which I thought was an interesting and sensible government policy…
The Bourne shell and Bash aren’t the right languages for larger programs
Today I read The Bourne shell and Bash aren’t the right languages for larger programs. It linked to this DKMS script which was interesting. TIL: ‘readonly’ in BASH.
Bleeding Edge: Why technology turns toxic in an unequal world
A book I’d be interested in reading: Bleeding Edge: Why technology turns toxic in an unequal world.
The latest from Baldur Bjarnason
I think I might be becoming a Baldur Bjarnason fanboi. Two from him I read today:
10 HTML Semantic Tags and When to Use Them
Today on r/programming: 10 HTML Semantic Tags and When to Use Them.
5 things I learned while developing a billing system
On r/programming today: 5 things I learned while developing a billing system.