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- If You Understand These 5 Platform Engineering Terms, You’re Ahead of 90%
These are all really important capabilities to have for any technology team. By the way, all of them need to also be enabled for agents. A Developer MCP is nearly a must-have way…
- The Hidden Price of Free: Why Your Data is Worth Far More Than You Think
- 10 Must-Have Skills for Claude in 2026 | Medium
Click-baity "listicle" but these resources are still good to scan.
- Scaling Kafka to Support PayPal’s Data Growth | PayPal Technology Blog
Scaling tech to extreme scales is usually an interesting story. The levels that PayPal has scaled Kafka are impressive! Today, our Kafka fleet consists of over 1,500 brokers that…
- Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well | by Keaton Brandt | Source and Buggy | Jul, 2023 | Medium
- RAI, The Free-Floating Stablecoin That Actually Works | IntoTheBlock
In my opinion stablecoins are a critical component of crypto solutions. Native tokens like Bitcoin and Ethereum are important, but there are vast capabilities that you can unlock…
- Introducing Ethical Monitor: A Privacy-Focused Service for Dappnode Alerts | DAppNode
How can you provide remote monitoring of infrastructure, but protect the privacy of the people that are running the infrastructure? Here is one approach.
- Bitcoin is the Detector of Imbeciles | by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | INCERTO | Jan, 2023 | Medium
- Stability without Pegs | Reflexer
RAI is a completely independent way to create a crypto stablecoin. Many stablecoins peg themselves to other assets, often 1 US dollar. This has a number of collateral as well as…
- How to Use ChatGPT’s AI Chatbot to Save Time Marketing Your App | Susannah Skyer Gupta
This is a trivial example of how AI can be used in marketing, and it seems obvious that this is the path we are going to head down faster than we realize. In addition to…
- 52 things I learned in 2022 | Magnetic Notes
Delightful list of various things.
- WeCard, the evolution of Personal Cards | Welook
This looks very similar to the IYK POAP card that I desperately want to get my hands on (on my Christmas list), but possible has some additional capabilities.
- Why sprint estimation has broken Agile | VirtusLab
This post gets story points all wrong. The author suggests that story points are the same as time, and that is a broken approach. Spring points should be an estimate of…
- IKEA’s Knowledge Graph and Why It Has Three Layers | Flat Pack Tech
Interesting to see IKEA using sophisticated ontology and knowledge graph approach to thinking about products, and perhaps many additional concepts. The article is a bit vague on…
- Famous Fox Federation Roadmap 2.0 | by Famous Fox Federation | Mar, 2022 | Medium
Famous Fox Federation is the most interesting (and successful) NFT project I have been involved in . Check out my den . This project has moved very fast and the development has…
- POAP inc. raises $10M to accelerate human development | POAP
POAP is one of my very favorite crypto projects out there. I like collecting things, and creating events and distributing tokens to friends around things that happen in-real-life…
- No, Covid 19 is not an old person problem by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Medium
The “old person problem” related to Covid becomes effectively an argument of unconditional eugenics, unconditional senicide/geronticide. The main trait in civilized society is to…
- Why We’re Building A New Product To Change The Way We Read Online | Medium
I’m very vocal about how social media platforms have figured out how to grab your attention and never let go, but it is equally true that media organizations have as well. When…
- I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End by Ryan Johnson | Medium
Great first-hand account of the dynamics going on in ports and shipping yards causing massive backups in supply chains. From personal experience, what used to take me 20–30…
- Major Refresh of NFT Images & Metadata for ENS Names | The Ethereum Name Service
I dig that the Ethereum Name Service is making the NFT's that represent domain names more NFTy.
- What if Recommendation Algorithms Like Facebook’s Grappled Directly with Bad Content? by Dan Frankowski | Medium
My friend Dan Frankowski has years of experience working on recommendation engines. His observations on two different models being trained for competing objectives is interesting.…
- Meet Callin, the First Social Podcasting Platform by David Sacks | Callin | Medium
There is a lot of innovation happening around voice apps and podcasts. Clubhouse kind of kicked it all into overdrive. This seems like an interesting app with some solid features.
- Why BitClout’s Diamondhands is HODLing to the Moon by Sequoia | Sequoia Capital Publication | Medium
I've been on Bitclout for about four months now. I am @jthingelstad there. I even have a profile for @WeeklyThing . Bitclout has reminded me in many ways of the very early days on…
- Full DNS Namespace Integration to ENS Now on Mainnet by Brantly Millegan | The Ethereum Name Service | Medium
I've been playing with a number of Web3 applications and using a name for your Ethereum wallet makes everything much easier to use. I registered thingelstad.eth and a handful of…
- Automate your Darkroom Workflow with our new Shortcut Actions | Dispatches From Darkroom
This type of automation is what has me so excited about Shortcuts coming to the Mac and the platform automation landscape for iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
- Five New Frontiers for NFTs. Art is the tip of the iceberg and we… | Electric Capital
I see a lot of potential for NFTs. This article highlights many of the same possibilities that I have envisioned.
- Metric Display Standards. Best practices for presenting numbers… by Tim Sheiner | Salesforce Design | Medium
Designing dashboards and presenting quantitative data is critically important, particularly when those displays are used to provide feedback to humans operating in an environment.…
- Clarity in Darkroom: Enhance Details in Your Photos by Jasper Hauser | Dispatches From Darkroom
Darkroom just gets closer and closer to all the advanced features that used to be just for Photoshop and Lightroom.
- A New Hope (for Gas Price) | Etherscan Blog
Not so much an explainer on Ethereum gas prices but an interesting article that looks at the recent (and now no longer) drop in gas prices. The article helps understand some of…
- Pinata Dedicated IPFS Gateways
I've been using Pinata do do some playing with IPFS . IPFS makes my head hurt a bit since it isn't entirely clear how and where your files live, but I think it is an interesting…
- Nexon’s Purchase of Bitcoin by Owen Mahoney | NEXON | Apr, 2021
Another publicly traded company, NEXOY , announcing that they are holding BTC on their balance sheet. They purchase $100M, or 1,717 coins at an average price of $58,226. We are…
- Manage your Growing Photo Library with Flag & Reject | Dispatches From Darkroom | Mar, 2021 | Medium
This may seem simple, even trivial, but a very streamlined Flag and Reject workflow for your Photo Library is something that we have sorely needed in iOS. Darkroom continues to…
- A Rose by Any Other Name? | by Peter Stern | Voyant Photonics | Nov, 2020 | Medium
I first met Peter Stern when he was CTO of Datek and BigCharts was providing great stock charts for their website. Peter is an amazingly smart technologist and business builder…
- Hello, Mac. The same Apple Design Award-winning app… | by Majd Taby | Dispatches From Darkroom | Nov, 2020 | Medium
I've been looking for something to replace Adobe Lightroom and now that Darkroom is on the Mac I may have an answer. Darkroom is powerful, but even more importantly it natively…
- Does Waking Up at 5:30 A.M Make You More Successful? by Thomas Oppong
TL:DR; No. What is important? Being intentional with your time, and designing a routine that biases you to successful outcomes, whatever you define those to be.
- If You Must Worry, Do It On Paper | by Thomas Oppong | Kaizen Habits | Medium
Like anyone I find myself worrying at times. Sometimes the worry doesn't resolve and you can obsess on it. I've never actually sit down and written it down but I like the approach…
- Monolith -> Services: Theory & Practice | by Kent Beck | Oct, 2020 | Medium
Beck doesn't really answer the how, but does a great job explaining her why this is so hard. It also is a good backgrounder on why software teams work so hard to build agility and…
- How 9/11 looked on a newly created Internet on that day | by Larry Kramer | Sep, 2020 | Medium
Larry Kramer shared these screen grabs of the front page of MarketWatch.com on 9/11. I am struck by how readable the content was and how it captured as best it could that horrible…
- 'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task | Medium
I had not heard the term Ugh fields , but I sort of knew what it was just by the name. I suppose you would consider this a specific form of procrastination. I have to admit that…
- How to Spot Toxic Software Jobs From Their Descriptions | by Michael Vinh Xuan Thanh | The Startup | Medium
Given how important hiring is job postings should be so much better. This is a good read to be aware of certain wording and concepts and what they can mean. To be honest, I think…
- Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You | by Steve Yegge | Aug, 2020 | Medium
- Book Review: Elon Musk. “We wanted flying cars, instead we got… | by Damon Allison | Aug, 2020 | Medium
- Write More. All too often I see a lot of time and… | by Cindy Sridharan | Jul, 2020 | Medium
- The Masks Masquerade - INCERTO - Medium
Taleb with a straightforward assessment of the logic behind masks, and why it is critical to our successful response to COVID-19. SIX ERRORS: 1) missing the compounding effects of…
- I am exhausted and want you to know why - Adversus - Medium
I appreciated Lints writing this and I hope that many more share perspective like this. On another occasion (in 2018), I was attending a Kauffman Fellows module in Palo Alto. A…
- How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
Barack Obama pointing at how to make real change happen. So the bottom line is this: if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We…
- Black Professionals Are Going Through A Lot | Medium
Read this and remember it as you engage with people at work. Your black employees are exhausted. Your black employees are scared. Your black employees are crying in between…
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice - Equality Includes You - Medium
Wondering what you can do? 75 things right here.
- Looking Back on Four Years at The Times - The Startup - Medium
Great retrospective front he outgoing CTO of The New York Times. I love how he defines success. First, while intermediate metrics like productivity metrics or performance metrics…
- What a typical 100% Serverless Architecture looks like in AWS!
Designing services with a serverless architecture requires an often radically different approach. Complex, but the benefits are strong.
- Scaling an Engineering Team from Zero to Infinity - Arush - Medium
A bunch of interesting thoughts on how you scale an engineering organization from 1 person to a larger team and how that evolves. I like the pragmatism about tools in here, and…
- Product for Internal Platforms - Camille Fournier - Medium
Some exceptional good advice from Fournier, who I would suggest is one of the most expert in the world on this topic.
- Notion encourages busy-work and I’m tired of it - diesdas.direct - Medium
Notion hasn’t caught my imagination at all, but there is a lot of interest in it.
- Complaining Rewires Your Brain to Make Future Complaining More Likely
So the idea of "venting" to someone maybe isn't such a good idea? Complaining about them doesn’t change anything — the best you can do is to manage your reaction to avoid stress…
- Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You
Taleb is full of himself, but he's also smart and often right. I appreciate his specific callout that a pandemic is not a Black Swan. Had they read that book, they would have…
- Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance - Tomas Pueyo - Medium
Tons of detailed scenarios on how Coronavirus could spread around the world.
- Skill Stacking: Instead of Mastering One Skill, Build a Skill Set
This skill stacking concept could easily be embodied by that same idea of earning merit badges. I like the approach. Take time to figure out what skills you have right now and…
- Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium
- Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020 - Sequoia Capital Publication - Medium
- Introducing “Less” — a new app to help you reduce your alcohol intake
Two things about this struck me. First, I have found that as I get older alcohol affects me more than ever. Just a beer or two, and the next day I feel less energy. I don't feel a…
- Exercise Is The Ultimate Thing You Can Do For Your Brain Health
I've been thinking a lot about energy management lately, and thinking about exercise, and working to create and reinforce the mental connection of exercise being additive to…
- Introducing Dispatch - Netflix Technology Blog - Medium
Sort of interesting, but I don't know why this is better than using a tool like JIRA and creating a custom workflow. 🤨
- How I Stopped Checking My Phone So Much - For The Interested - Medium
Very practical tips for reducing time on your phone.
- GraphQL: the REST is history? - Stav Barak - Medium
Basic intro to GraphQL. Technologists get so hung up in the X vs Y debate. GraphQL fundamentally solves a different problem than REST. I think it’s clear there is room for both,…
- Book Review: Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
- How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You
- I’m a 37-Year-Old Mom & I Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl. Here’s What I Learned.
The experiences documented here are disturbing and concerning. First, what the hell is wrong with these men? Second, how do you manage this and protect your kids online? Staying…
- How GitHub’s CTO Architects Engineering Teams That Scale
This is a fabulous set of 12 recommendations for any technology leaders. This is worth thinking through and developing some thoughts on each one for your own team. Great stuff. 👍
- Self-serve first: the overlooked but essential paradigm underlying great software companies
Reducing friction to all parts of a business can yield tremendous results. Most self-serve first products start being used by small customers (typically entrepreneurs or…
- A Whole New Look for Darkroom: Light Mode, Multiple Spaces, Shortcut Action, and Sound Effects
I’m very impressed with what Darkroom is doing with photo editing on iOS platforms. I’m particularly excited to see them adding Shortcut support so quickly. If you grab an iPad…
- Is We Work a Fraud? - Henry Hawksberry - Medium
25 points highlighting the mess at We Work. WeWork will never ever, in its short history, generate a profit, let alone the tens of billions in revenues necessary to generate…
- Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On - danah boyd - Medium
danah boyd's acceptance speech receiving an award from the EFF is a must-read, particularly for men in the tech industry. The timing of this alongside Stallman's resignations from…
- The importance of humility in product management - Thor Mitchell - Medium
A good dose of humility and empathy is a great thing for nearly (every?) role in a company. This is an interesting read thinking about those aspects for product managers. Worth…
- John Allspaw: “Getting the messy details is critical”
Success results in more stuff. Another way of saying this is successful software never gets simpler. I think that’s something we can all agree on. That growing success and…
- How to Be a Better Writer - Better Humans - Medium
- How Dark deploys code in 50ms - Darklang - Medium
- Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website!
Yikes. This vulnerability leverages the amazingly simple Zoom feature where you can just send anyone a meeting link (for example https://zoom.us/j/492468757 ) and when they open…
- The Time of Day Has a Significant Effect on Your Productivity
I've been wanting to read When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink for a while and this article makes me want to read it more. It feels like there is…
- One-on-ones are my most valuable meetings; here’s how I run them
I like to read about how leaders use one-on-one meetings and this is an excellent, and simple one. If done effectively, these one-on-ones are an opportunity to show my team that I…
- Tinder’s move to Kubernetes – Tinder Engineering – Medium
Lessons learned moving a very big social platform to Kubernetes.
- 10 questions I wish I’d asked more to turbocharge my career
Good questions for 1:1 sessions with people that you work with or want to learn from. The book sounds like it could be interesting too.
- How to Apply The Principles of Long-Term Investing to Everything
I like this approach considering small improvements in the same way that we think about long-term investing.
- Evolving Microservices with Event Sourcing – Damon Allison – Medium
Fun writeup on the evolution into Microservices and then adopting Event Sourcing to provide additional capabilities. Good discussion of tradeoffs and benefits. Plus a fun read!
- Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
Reflections from the CEO and Founder of Gumroad on building the business and the significant ups and downs. He grounds back to delivering value. It seems obvious, but that is…
- No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium
Is "complexifier" a word? If not, I want it to be one. What a bunch of slime ball stuff. Glad Bezos didn’t capitulate.
- Why did the PGP Web of Trust fail? – Henry Story – Medium
TL;DR? Just way too hard.
- Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway.
I've been using DuckDuckGo for a long time, and this behind the scenes look at the company is pretty great. Via Leah Cunningham .
- What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet – NewCo Shift – Medium
This is a must read to give some perspective to the experience that many women have on the Internet. And third, and most importantly, that sometimes being a woman on the internet…
- The Hidden Struggle to Save the Coffee Industry From Disaster
It turns out coffee is a giant monoculture, susceptible to many bad things. 😳
- 8 Powerful Evening Habits That Will Prepare You For a Better Tomorrow
A lot of people write about creating powerful "morning routines". It strikes me an evening routine might be even more important though.
- Ethical Hypocrisy and Social Networks – Leah Cunningham – Medium
My friend Leah Cunningham has decided she's done with Facebook properties, and shares why.
- Darkroom For iPad: Faster. Easier. More Powerful. – Dispatches From Darkroom – Medium
I've been impressed with Darkroom on iOS since I first used it. I had two issues that kept me from using it a lot: it was buggy and crashed somewhat frequently, and it had no iPad…
- Our learnings from adopting GraphQL – Netflix TechBlog – Medium
Another recap, this time from Netflix, on the successes of using GraphQL. We have been running GraphQL on NodeJS for about 6 months, and it has proven to significantly increase…
- Stop Checking Your Email All The Time (How to Break Your Inbox Dependence And Get Real Work Done)
Everything in this is so true. The average person checks email 77 times a day, sends and receives more than 122 email messages a day, and spends 28 percent or more of their…
- The Total Incompatibility of Mindfulness and Busyness
Article from Jon Kabat-Zinn , one of the leaders of mindfulness practices. Precisely because if we are overloaded to the point of being overwhelmed, it is likely that we will be…
- The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen – The Mission – Medium
Nice breakdown to create a compelling and engaging story to connect with a prospect. This structure would definitely engage better than the typical sales presentations that are…
- I hate manager READMEs – Camille Fournier – Medium
I’ve never jumped on this bandwagon. I’ve always felt that it was a bit presumptuous, and had the wrong polarity. Your job as a leader is to adapt to your people, not to expect…
- Kubernetes 101: Pods, Nodes, Containers, and Clusters
This is a very easy to understand breakdown of the basic components of Kubernetes . It’s a good read if you are just trying to ground yourself with the basic terms. Via Leah…
- When to put down the tools – Mike Monteiro – Medium
I like this perspective from Monteiro. What is the line for the employees of Facebook and Twitter?
- When is someone ready to manage managers? – Camille Fournier – Medium
Good direction for managers seeking to move into bigger roles. This part about feedback is critical. So many line managers think that they are temporarily embarrassed CTOs, and…
- Front-end Web Development on iPad Pro (2018) – Craig Morey – Medium
This is a robust breakdown of the limits of using iOS for development like work. Most things in here would apply to other intense workloads.
- Google employees and contractors participate in “global walkout for real change”
it’s nice to see employees at one of the biggest technology companies in the world organizing and getting a voice on matters like this. More than 20,000 Google employees and…
- Top 5 Contemporary Software Engineering Books – KI labs Engineering – Medium
I hadn’t heard of the first four books on this list. I’m intrigued by Developer Hegemony. 📚
- Help us Build Ping.MN – ping.mn – Medium
I’m curious to see how this new publication takes off. They just had their first meeting and I like the general direction they are taking with this. Subscribed!
- Engineering Productivity – Camille Fournier – Medium
Productivity of software teams is a very fuzzy space. Companies have tried to figure out some way to evaluate this for 50 years now, and have gotten nowhere. It’s knowledge work,…
- Dean Hager Shares Leadership Strategies To Improve Your Company’s Culture
Solid and comprehensive leadership advice from Dean Hager , the CEO of Jamf. 👍
- The No. 1 Lifelong Habit Of Warren Buffett: The 5-Hour Rule
I dig this concept of the Learner Lifestyle. I take the actual amounts of time with a grain of salt, but I think it is a good process to make sure you have time learning. I get…
- Why does everyone hate Read Receipts? We did some research to find out.
So I’m in the majority on my dislike of this feature. 🤨
- Symbol in Ruby – Mehdi Farsi – Medium
Symbols were always the cool kid thing in Ruby that bothered me. This writeup helps clarify what they are.
- Serverless Best Practices – Paul Johnston – Medium
☑️ Good set of things to consider when designing serverless.
- How “systems thinking” can level up your work — and your life
I've read the Thinking in Systems book that this is referring to and agree, it is a fabulous introduction to a sophisticated set of tools to look at systems.
- Want to scale agile? Don’t. Descale the work first. Achieve big through small.
There is some very good thinking here on how to bring agility to organizations.
- Beyond Interactive: Notebook Innovation at Netflix – Netflix TechBlog – Medium
The scale of this effort at Netflix is amazing. Every day more than 1 trillion events are written into a streaming ingestion pipeline, which is processed and written to a 100PB…
- Health Checks and Graceful Degradation in Distributed Systems
I have been running health checks for decades. BigCharts server is happy is the first. MarketWatch is also happy . The “health” of a process is a spectrum. What we’re really…
- Newsletters Are Immortal – Dave Pell – Medium
I've been publishing my Weekly Thing newsletter for over a year now and I've grown to really like it. I subscribe to Dave Pell's NextDraft , and it’s one of my favorite daily…
- How to Fall Asleep in 120 Seconds – Member Feature Stories – Medium
Training program used by Navy pilots to get sleep. After six weeks of practice, 96 percent of pilots could fall asleep in two minutes or less. Even after drinking coffee, with…
- Evolution of Infrastructure Monitoring at ThousandEyes Engineering
Overview of the tooling used, with Prometheus in the middle, to do full monitoring.
- A pre-history of weeknotes, plus why I write them and perhaps why you should too (Week 16)
I've never thought of weeknotes as a thing, but I guess they are. I guess the Weekly Thing is a weeknote. I found the weeknotes mentioned interesting. I also love this saying in…
- Beyond Regular Expressions: An Introduction to Parsing Context Free Grammars
Most everyone in tech knows about Regular Expressions, but very few consider full blown parsers and grammars.
- Engineering Ladders at Meetup – Making Meetup – Medium
I like how Meetup is extending and clarifying the traditional engineering ladder. The maker and manager split is smart and provides good clarification.
- Why you should not use Google Cloud. – Punch a Server – Medium
Nearly every tech leader I talk to highlights Google’s inability to engage with businesses in a B2B relationship as a major blocker. This article is a great example of that. GCP…
- The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You – Personal Growth – Medium
I believe there is a lot of truth to this thought. I often refer to social media as spray foam for the mind. It fills all the little gaps with stuff, instead of some solitude or…
- Laziness Does Not Exist – E Price – Medium
This article is written from the position of a psychology professor understanding students, but it caught my attention and make me remember Do The Work by Steven Pressfield as…
- Our management doesn’t – Serious Scrum – Medium
A guide for pushing Scrum practices into the management layer in your organization.
- An Ambitious Person’s Brutally Honest Take On Work-Life Balance
- Full Cycle Developers at Netflix – Netflix TechBlog – Medium
- Your Brain on Reading (Why Your Brain Needs You to Read Every Day)
I’m currently reading Sapiens and that probably makes this post resonate with me even more, but I love all of the benefits highlighted here from reading on a consistent basis. 📚
- The Curious Brain (Why Curiosity is as Important as Intelligence)
Instilling curiosity in your kids is one of the best gifts you can give them.
- How To Achieve Your 10-Year Plan In The Next 6 Months
Like slam poetry for productivity.
- Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers – Pinterest Engineering – Medium
Another data point on the Manager v. Maker time topic. I like that this article has some survey data as well, and allows for a hybrid. My main takeaway from these is that being…
- GraphiQL: GraphQL’s Killer App – The GraphQLHub – Medium
- Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source
Another major piece of software open sourced by Netflix. Over the last three years, Titus evolved initially from supporting batch use cases, to running services applications (both…
- How to Use Static Type Checking in Python 3.6 – Adam Geitgey – Medium
Perhaps now some of the type safety arguments can be put to rest for Python? This is a good add, and I like the syntax.
- Earth’s Wonders Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before – Planet Stories – Medium
Very cool satellite imagery of a number of cities and mountain ranges. Satellite images but at an angle so you can see the topography,
- The Missing Building Blocks of the Web – Anil Dash – Medium
Anil Dash with a look at the components of the web that we've forgotten about over time. At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth…
- The Only Privacy Policy That Matters – Dave Pell – Medium
Those that know the most about technology, and the people that build many of the privacy stealing social platforms, take great efforts to protect their privacy. What do we make of…
- Deep Thinking In The Age of Distraction – The Startup – Medium
I'd rather this was just called "Thinking" instead of "Deep Thinking". We don't need to "Deep Think" and "Deep Work" all the time. I'd rather focus on creating time to not be…
- Live Like a Hydra – Thinking Is Hard – Medium
I've read Nassim Nicholas Taleb 's Antifragile but this essay on applying anti fragile concepts to your life is interesting: An antifragile way of life is all about finding a way…
- Be a Pal, My Dudes – Mule Design Studio – Medium
Some very clear and practical tasks that men in the technology field can do to make it a more inclusive and open environment for women. Read this and take action. 👍
- Moving a large and old codebase to Python3 – Anders Hovmöller – Medium
Good overview of one companies work to move their Python 2 codebase to Python 3. How they did it and what issues they saw.
- Why Decentralization Matters – Chris Dixon – Medium
Detailed write up from Chris Dixon connecting decentralization with blockchain. The lesson is that when you compare centralized and decentralized systems you need to consider them…
- Personal Data Representatives: An Idea – Tom Steinberg – Medium
This seems completely unworkable but it’s a novel idea for managing access to personal data. Establishing a 3rd party entity to deal with the complexity might make sense.
- Comparing Kubernetes to Pivotal Cloud Foundry — A Developer’s Perspective
Very good writeup comparing current CloudFoundry and Kubernetes. I've been trying to understand this differentiation better, and even asked some Pivotal people this exact…
- Rightsizing Infrastructure Can Cut Costs 36% – AWS Enterprise Collection – Medium
Infrastructure cost management in the cloud is a difficult beast to wrestle.
- Against Productivity – The Message – Medium
This is going to sound a little weird but this article totally made me think of GTD and the concept of "mind like water". In many ways foolishness isn’t the opposite of wisdom,…
- Real-life AWS cost optimization strategy – Teads Engineering – Medium
Managing cloud infrastructure expense is a real challenge. I've experienced and seen everything in this article and more. This dynamic is entirely new to pre-cloud technology…
- Seeing Myself in #MNTech – Jenna – Medium
Love this perspective and highlight from my fellow minnestar board member Jenna Pederson . For me this is the highlight: We did not sit back and wait for more women, people of…
- One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end
I joined Twitter in December 2006, user #82,903. I can personally attest to the path that is highlighted here. Twitter has become something very different. It’s not the first…
- Want to see something crazy? Open this link on your phone with WiFi turned off.
It seems like everyone is selling any and all data they collect on us. But what these services show us is even more alarming: US telcos appear to be selling direct,…
- My Incredibly Simple Guide To Stoicism — Learn Wisdom You Can Practically Use
If you are curious to learn more about Stoicism this is a good, simple primer. Stoicism is more a meditative practice that allows us to take the negative feelings we experience,…
- Relicensing the GraphQL specification – Lee Byron – Medium
Facebook moved quick with the React license and now also has moved GraphQL to a different license . 👏
- Monitoring and Observability – Cindy Sridharan – Medium
Curious to understand better what people mean when they say observability and why that isn't just monitoring ? This post has good clarification on the differences and how you use…
- Why 16% of the code on the average site belongs to Facebook, and what that means
There are many reasons I believe that everyone should run content blockers in their browser. This article does a good job of highlighting some of those reasons.
- RxJS Observable interop with Promises and Async-Await
Reactive + Promises? Sounds fabulous together!
- Arrange your time and tasks according to these seven categories, and you’ll be a creativity machine
I've done a decent amount of thinking about time allocations and budgeting time. This article is focused on looking at how your time contributes to creative endeavors. My target…
- How to hire executives – Brian Armstrong – Medium
Good article describing how components of hiring an executive is different than other hiring teams do. Good how to.
- Ulysses Is Switching to Subscription Pricing
I use Ulysses and have purchased it on both iOS and macOS. They, like Bear, have become another subscription based writing / note taking app. I subscribed. I get the economics and…
- Story of a successful migration to Google Cloud Platform
A lot of good advice here that I've given myself. One of the main concepts I recommend is to not rearchitect applications and keep things stable as much as possible. Do the…
- Introducing Cosette – University of Washington Database Group – Medium
This looks like a very powerful tool to analyze SQL queries, particularly when you are optimizing for performance. This seems like it would be extremely difficult to write.
- What do we mean by “evidence-based journalism”? – WikiTribune – Medium
A number of years ago I thought a lot about how to rethink news. One of the core ideas was "Show your work." WikiTribune is adopting that principle and referring to it as…
- Looking for the One: How I Went on 150 Dates in 4 Months
I can’t honestly decide the right reaction to this. Impressive use of automation and science to drive to desired outcomes? Foolish misunderstanding of how human relationships…
- Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks
I really like Rajiv's thinking on tech organizations. His Three Roles of a CTO is something I refer to often. I like what Rajiv has put together here as well.
- Day One Goes Premium – Day One – Medium
I've wondered when Day One would introduce a premium offering. I use their sync service for my Day One journals and I currently use 1.07 GB of storage that I've never paid a dime…
- How to become a data scientist, part 2: try to solve the problem
Great article by my former book club friend Dan Frankowski. Dan is immensely smart at this stuff and it’s cool to see him putting together his thoughts on approaching data science.
- Getting Things Right With Checklists – Production Ready – Medium
I’m a huge fan of Gawande's Checklist Manifesto. It highlights many ways to use checklists to improve processes and outcomes. Good read on using checklists in tech.
- Wikitribune: work in progress – Impossible – Medium
- Premortems: The Art of Negative Visualization – Production Ready – Medium
- The Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge – Jon Hall – Medium
This is Andon, automated: nothing gets to production if anything is going to break production.
- Logs and Metrics – Cindy Sridharan – Medium
Both logs as well as metrics, on the other hand, are examples of whitebox monitoring, which refers to a category of monitoring tools and techniques that work with data reported…
- This Is Why You Hate Me – Medium
In short, everything turned upside down. The open communication network we thought we were building turned into a hunting ground for trolls and spammers; unavoidable because of…
- A new calendar approach for 2017 – Medium
After seeing it mentioned on Twitter from a few people, I purchased Jocelyn K. Glei’s Unsubscribe and devoured it on a long flight. Inspired by the ideas from this book and other…
- Learning to Just Be a Person
- Building a business from a great idea, some future Monday – Medium
- To-Do Lists Are Not the Answer to Getting Things Done – Personal Growth – Medium
- Why Lean Enterprise Transformation is Hard – ThoughtWorks Featured Insights
By Dan McClureEveryone knows that big cross-organizational change is difficult. However, not all organizational transformation is the same. This is particularly true for…
- The lost infrastructure of social media. — Medium
As social networks grew in popularity and influence, the old decentralized blogosphere fell apart and those early services consolidated, leaving all the power in the hands of a…
- Introducing LambCI — a serverless build system — Medium
From an ops perspective, all of the systems and capacity are managed by Amazon (SNS, Lambda, DynamoDB and S3), so LambCI is far simpler to setup and manage than Jenkins —…
- The 7 Habits of Every User
I have designed experiences in a number of different contexts over the years. From slide decks to email campaigns and websites to applications
- The Quiet Crisis unfolding in Software Development
The Quiet Crisis unfolding in Software DevelopmentI’ve been working in software development for twenty-eight years. My current position is Senior Development Director at a…
- I am Alex St. John’s Daughter, and He is Wrong About Women in Tech
My name is Amilia St. John and I am the daughter of Alex St. John. Yes, that one. For those not following the horrific toddler meltdown my father has been very publicly…
- Mindfulness, Suffering, and Design
As a long-time Buddhist practitioner, I view the burgeoning popularity of mindfulness practice with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the thought of society at large becoming more…
- Serverless: Initial Learnings (part 1) — Medium
There are both good and bad things with serverless… My plan is to write some posts on what I’ve learned from a practical point of view. There are issues to resolve and there are…
- The Dropcam Team
I can’t publish Dropcam’s revenue, but if you knew what percentage of all of Alphabet’s “other bets” revenue was brought in by the relatively tiny 100-person Dropcam team that…
- The Divine Move
So there is no doubt now that AlphaGo, in its current state, is already better than any human. And it will keep on improving. This is a good thing for Go: now we have a tool…
- Microservices, monoliths and laser nail guns: Etsy tech boss on finding the right focus — > S C A L E
John Allspaw has a long history on the web from Salon to Friendster to Flickr. For the past five years, he has been at popular e-commerce site Etsy, where he’s now VP of…
- 10 Tips for Planning a Tech Conference that Women Will Actually Want to Attend
Here’s 10 tips from the Women Who Tech team and crowdsourced from our awesome community of 10,000 entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, and industry leaders to help you plan for…
- This Is How You Identify A-Players (In About 10 Minutes) During An Interview — Medium
I thought about the commonalities between them and what “makes them tick” and I also thought about my actual interviews with them — even the interviews back in the early 2000s.…
- I deleted my Facebook app (and it’s the best decision I’ve made in a long time) — Higher Thoughts
Lately I’ve been considering what’s important and useful as far as my digital world goes — particularly on my phone.
- Design As Operations, Operations As Design — Medium
I just finished reading Thomas Wendt’s wonderful book, Design for Dasein. I recommend it to anyone who practices, or just is interested in, experience design. Wendt’s ideas have…
- Feeble Noise Pollution — Medium
They have selected a case which will cast the tech vendors in the worst possible light. The FBI has been planning exactly this for a while, waiting only for an attack that would…
- How To Build A Product Roadmap Everyone Understands
In this post, I’ll show you how we use our product roadmap to communicate high-level priorities so clearly that anyone — from CEO to summer intern — could walk away knowing what’s…
- “I Trust You” — Medium
Trust = Goal Alignment + Competence
- Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
Over my whole programming experience, I've gone back and forth on the question of object-oriented programming, yay or nay. In this last year, though, I've finally settled…
- The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community has failed. What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked “systemically important institutions”…
- 52 things I learned in 2015 — Medium
number of things still to be learned in the world
- 2015 DevOps Holiday Reading List — Medium
I’ve curated what I consider some of the more useful pieces on DevOps (with a bit of Agile and Cloud mixed in) that I’ve read this year. It tilts towards the cultural aspect of…
- The economics and politics of Thomas the Tank Engine — Bull Market — Medium
The great trick of Sir Topham is to employ engines who essentially evoke the image of the New Soviet man in the service of a proto-capitalist, semi-feudal enterprise.
- Anatomy of a large Angular application
How to design the architecture of an Angular application and not go insane in the processBuild it and they
- The Single Biggest Mistake Programmers Make Every Day — JavaScript Scene
Oops
- Cultivating great distributed teams — Towards a remarkable career
A couple years ago, my coworker Keith Fahlgren joined me in some ridiculous conference performance art. We wired up real-time speech recognition and some hooks into Google Docs…
- Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition
First level of Flux On the Traffic and Chaos Teams at Netflix, our mission requires that we have a holistic understanding of our complex microservice architecture. At any given…
- Lessons learned writing highly available code — Imgur Engineering
After more than two years at Imgur, I’ve had to learn a lot about the principles behind writing highly-available (but not AP) fault-resilient systems. While occasionally some…
- Burning Down the Mouse — Matter — Medium
- What My Uterus Can Teach You About Being a Tech Leader — Medium
- 30 Questions to Ask Your Kid Instead of “How Was Your Day?” — The Synapse — Medium
When I picked my son up from his first day of 4th grade, my usual (enthusiastically delivered) question of “how was your day?” was met with his usual (indifferently delivered)…
- Software development: Are you in for the long haul? — Unhandled Exception — Medium
Recently, someone asked me about how did I managed to stay up to date with everything that’s happening around software development, so I decided to condensate some techniques I’ve…
- Enterprise DevOps: Why You Should Run What You Build — AWS Enterprise Collection — Medium
- Hello Future Pastebin Readers — The Message — Medium
Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public.
- Fenzo: OSS Scheduler for Apache Mesos Frameworks
Bringing Netflix to our millions of subscribers is no easy task. The product comprises dozens of services in our distributed environment, each of which is operating a critical…
- The End of the Internet Dream? — Backchannel — Medium
Earlier this month Jennifer Granick was the keynote speaker at Black Hat 2015. This is a modified version of the speech she delivered. A video of the speech is also available.
- When I’m Gone — Medium
- If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention
According to the Harvard Business Review, 41% of women working in tech eventually end up leaving the field (compared to …
- What does a VP of Engineering do, again?
“You mean you’re like an engineer-whisperer?”
- The Netflix Tech Blog: Java in Flames
Java mixed-mode flame graphs provide a complete visualization of CPU usage and have just been made possible by a new JDK option: -XX:+PreserveFramePointer. We've been developing…
- The Web We Have to Save
The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?
- Defining a High Performance Team: It’s not just about Structure
Recently I’ve had a bit of an epiphany about teams — the best teams, the high performing teams. How are they defined? Ho…
- I, Racist
Why I don’t talk about race with White people
- The REAL reason Slack became a billion dollar company
And why its business model is evilly brilliant and Twitter is going nowhere
- Why Invest in Tools? — Medium
A few days ago I got to share GraphQL at the React-Europe conference, a project I’ve been working on for over three years at Facebook. After this talk, multiple…
- 21 management things I learned at Imgur
It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t.
- The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist — The Message — Medium
It’s been hard to make a living as a journalist in the 21st century, but it’s gotten easier over the last few years, as we’ve settled on the world’s newest and most lucrative…
- We Don’t Sell Saddles Here — Medium
- Google systems guru explains why containers are the future of computing — > S C A L E — Medium
- The Chokehold of Calendars — Medium
- Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work in Slack.
The messaging service first took over the digital work world. Now it’s everywhere.
- Join the Engineering Leisure Class
Engineers earn more money than we need, and the world is full of interesting problems that don’t promise a financial ret…
- The Netflix Tech Blog: Introducing FIDO: Automated Security Incident Response
- The Code Is Just the Symptom
Since leaving SocialChorus I have been doing the thing that I am good at, or more particularly, that thing I am good at …
- My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure — The Message — Medium
- No. Agile Does Not Scale. — Medium
Mainly in the last five years, we have witnessed an ongoing conversation about the “problem” of scaling Agile development. Book after book, conference after conference, and…
- Your Job Is Not to Write Code — Medium
- The Way We Hire Is All Wrong — Backchannel — Medium
Google is one of the few companies to go public about the flaws in the traditional hiring process. Except for recent college graduates, the company no longer asks candidates for…
- How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW) — The Message — Medium
Hosting that butt is an impressive feat. You can’t just put Kim Kardashian nudes on the Internet and walk away —that would be like putting up a tent in the middle of a hurricane.…
- A Teenager’s View on Social Media — Backchannel — Medium
- A mile wide, an inch deep — Medium
- Star Trek: The Next Generation In 40 Hours — Medium
But I want to make the case Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is important and worth your time in 2015, and I want to suggest about 40 hours of Star Trek viewing that will…
- The Netflix Tech Blog: Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform
- Thoughts on Google+ — Medium
But it matters because there’s a lot at stake here — way more than the success of a mere social network. What’s at stake is how individuals participate in the web ecosystem, and…
- The Netflix Tech Blog: Node.js in Flames
- Machine Learning Algorithm Studying Fine Art Paintings Sees Things Art Historians Had Never Noticed
Artificial intelligence reveals previously unrecognised influences between great artists
- The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing — The Message — Medium
Or: Networks without networks
- Introducing Dynomite - Making Non-Distributed Databases, Distributed
In the age of high scalability and big data, Dynomite’s design goal is to turn those single-server datastore solutions into peer-to-peer, linearly scalable, clustered systems…
- Why #Gamergaters Piss Me The F*** Off
Chris Kluwe played in the NFL for eight years, but he’s been a gamer for 26 — and he’s tired of the misogyny in today’s …
- SimCity That I Used to Know
On the game’s 25th birthday, a devotee talks with creator Will Wright
- AWS in the Enterprise
September marked the end of my tenure as the CIO of Dow Jones. This month I am thrilled to start the next chapter of my career with Amazon Web Services as the Head of Enterprise…
- Etsy’s Trying to Fix Tech’s Women Problem. Why Aren’t You?
The first step is, throw out the hoodie-wearing boy-genius and build a new archetype.
- An interview with Rajiv Pant, CTO of The New York Times The CTO Series Medium
Next up is Rajiv Pant, CTO of The New York Times. I met with Rajiv at the Times headquarters in Manhattan, where we discussed the newsroom of the future, how the company is…
- What Is Privacy? The Message Medium
- Product Manager You Are Bringing the Donuts Medium
The role of a PM is, necessarily, murky. It changes wildly from company to company, and even within a company from team to team, and even on a particular team from day to day. It…
- Culture. Technology. Operations. — Medium
One of my favorite decompositions of the role of a CTO. 👏
- This is your brain on mobile Medium
Very good article that resonants strongly with me. A growing feeling of digital overload, where mobile is filling in all the gaps of analog with screens feels like a problem…
- What gets done is what gets done
Its easily solved, right? Work late, work the weekend, and just pull more hours. Wrong. Youre probably setting yourself up for a bunch of problems down the line if you tackle it…
- You Have to Play This 1,600-Year-Old Viking War Game
At first glance, Hnefatafl (prounounced nef-ah-tah-fel) might just look like a knock-off version of chess with Norse helms and impressive beards, but the game is at least 600…
- Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative? What I Learned Today Medium
This got me wondering about coffee and beer and which one would actually help me be more creative and get work done. Hopefully, this will help you decide when its best to have…
- Sleep: Everything You Need To Know The Healthy Life Medium
Sleep is a powerful tool that when leveraged the right way can help improve your quality of life tremendously. Many people see sleep as this complex dark place and don't know the…
- Our Regressive Web
This article is very on point and I agree with a lot of it. It's the "Master Switch" push coming again to control content. Think about it: in an ad impression-and pageview-driven…
- Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook
Theres no memory at Twitter: everything is fleeting. Though that concept may seem daunting to some (archivists, I feel your pain), it also means the content in my feed is an…
- Welcome to Medium
New "blogging" (maybe?) platform from Ev of Twitter fame. I don't really get what is so new here. The collections to me seem like topic pages, or even keywords. There must be…
- The Netflix Tech Blog: Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second
- Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage
- NoSQL at Netflix - Netflix TechBlog - Medium