January 2019
January 31, 2019
- TechCrunch: The suddenly exciting future of enterprise communications. #
- Don’t say “homoiconic”. “When asked what’s so great about Lisp, many aficionados will say that the language is Homoiconic and that this property gives it certain magical advantages over other languages. When asked what homoiconic means, however, the answer is often much less clear.” #
January 30, 2019
- Researchers take step closer to creating tech that can read minds. They were able to construct clear and intelligible synthetic speech using computer processing of human brain activity. #
January 28, 2019
- A fascinating (and super long) piece on how Uber makes money. #
- What skeptics get wrong about full-stack engineers—and why we need them. Interesting points on how full-stack roles correspond with early-stage start-ups and “some product-level decisions”. This certainly matches how it works at Made by Many. #
January 22, 2019
- Test drive over 50 programming fonts. Shame about the poor rendering though. #
January 21, 2019
- The difference between versioning and version control in your CMS. Clients will often ask for “versioning” without being clearly able to articulate what they want. And developers often assume it to mean something without really considering the complete picture (e.g. versioning of non-copy fields or images). #
January 20, 2019
- Finding a better way to interview engineers. Rather than whiteboard or coding tests, try to get the interview to mimic the work as closely as possible. #
January 15, 2019
- GAN generated faces have come a long way. It has its limits, though: how to recognise fake AI-generated images. #
January 14, 2019
January 7, 2019
- Ethereum plans to cut its absurd energy consumption by 99 percent by moving from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. #
- Would you still pick Elixir in 2019? Tl;dr: they say yes. #
January 3, 2019
- Recommended reading order of Ursula Le Guin’s novels, as recommended by the author. #
January 2, 2019
- The ‘future book’ is here, but it’s not what we expected. An interesting look at how books have changed even if the form hasn’t. Think: self-publishing, crowdfunding, owning your audience. #
- My biggest regret as a programmer. #
- Four functional programming advances redefining app dev for the cloud. #
