Swedish-American mom and parenting expert Linda Akeson McGurk shares why the 164-year-old Nordic philosophy of "friluftsliv" is the secret to raising happier kids. 

The 164-year-old Swedish secret to raising happy and resilient kids, says parenting expert and mom

James Somers, a professional coder, writes about the astonishing scripting skills of A.I. chatbots like GPT-4 and considers the future of a once exalted craft.

A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | The New Yorker

tl;dr: Google research found that psychological safety is the most important dynamic for an effective team. This was alongside other dynamics like dependabil...

AddyOsmani.com - Effective Engineering Teams

You don’t have to know exactly what the future holds to know that some people will handle it better than…


      A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About · Collab Fund
    

Navigating content overload — Curate to create

You’re not lacking creativity, you’re overwhelmed

Becoming a good engineer is about collecting experience. Each project, even small ones, is a chance to add new techniques and tools to your toolbox. Where th...

AddyOsmani.com - Becoming a good engineer is about collecting experience.

You’re reviewing Jane’s pull request. It fixes a bug that stops many customers using your software. Unfortunately, her variable names look strange. Do you “Approve” her PR, or do you “Request changes”? Your choice here is between two product variants:

The golden rule of PR reviews

For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.. “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding” is published by Camille Fournier.

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Camille Fournier | Medium

Session management allows users to stay logged in across multiple tabs devices and maintains security by tracking user sessions.

A Complete Guide to Session Management in Next.js

After startups raise money, their next biggest problem becomes hiring.  It turns out it’s both really hard and really important to hire good people; in fact, it’s probably the most important thing...

How to hire - Sam Altman

A compelling story, a superpower (or two), some luck – and betting on yourself – can help take you where you want to go.

5 Rules That Will Drive a Long, Healthy Career

Product-minded engineers are developers with lots of interest in the product
itself. They want to understand why decisions are made, how people use the
product, and love to be involved in making product decisions. They're someone
who would likely make a good product manager if they ever decide to give

The Product-Minded Software Engineer - The Pragmatic Engineer

Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I been this impressed with the foresight, fortitude, and feroc...

The Musk Algorithm

RAIL model enables designers and developers to reliably target the performance optimization work that has the highest impact on user experience. Learn what goals and guidelines the RAIL model sets out and which tools you can use to achieve them. 

Measure performance with the RAIL model

Boost React app speed with performance optimization techniques. Efficient data fetching, CSS optimization & more for faster web apps.

10 Essential React Performance Optimization Techniques for Faster Web Applications

Here's everything we learned by migrating our production applications to React Server Components — including how to mix Client and Server Components.

We migrated 50,000 lines of code to React Server Components | Mux

TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells it to various clients. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian company that provides interconnection services.

TeleSign profiles half of the world’s phone users

Let's find out, supported by exclusive photos, what data the engineers observe on pit wall monitors during the F1 sessions.

F1 | Exclusive: What engineers see on pit wall monitors

Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 | All Things Distributed

Learn what developer experience is, why it is important, and how to measure and improve developer experience.

The ultimate guide to developer experience (DevEx, DX) | Swarmia

What ails Google. And how it can turn it around.

The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn… | by Praveen Seshadri | Medium

Even modest improvements to build times are helpful.

Build Times and Developer Productivity - by Abi Noda

Zoom fatigue is a real phenomenon, resulting from prolonged virtual meetings. This post explores its causes, including cognitive overload and lack of movement, and provides practical tips to combat it. Learn how to improve your virtual meeting experience and increase productivity.

Zoom Fatigue Unpacked: Understanding and Overcoming Virtual Exhaustion - Leadership Garden

Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes

Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars | Automotive industry | The Guardian

Reduce overhead by removing one of them: estimation.  We believe that mature Agile teams can evolve beyond the tedium of debating Fibonacci scores and operate better without them. Once your team turns its focus to breaking problems down to their component parts, all you need is a little math to plan your next project.

Estimation Isn’t for Everyone. The Evolution of Agility in Software… | by The NYT Open Team | Jun, 2023 | NYT Open

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Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

These are my personal observations working in tech for more than 20 years — if someone noticed any of these laws of nature before me, I automatically give them full credit. In tech we have this…

Amir’s 10 Laws of Tech. Observations collected over 20 years in… | by Amir Shevat | The Startup | Medium

As we are about to start the planning meetings for 2024 at AWS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I take notes.

A few words on taking notes | All Things Distributed

Read this list unless you want to build a money dissappearing system

9 fintech engineering mistakes - by Jon Christensen

Editor in chief Arnie Weissmann was on an OceanGate Expeditions mission to the Titanic in May. Things didn't go as planned. The first installment of his experiences.


	Onboard an OceanGate Expeditions mission, part 1: Preparing for the Titanic: Travel Weekly


Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Google approaches technical debt.

How Google Measures and Manages Tech Debt - by Abi Noda

Technical in-depth guide for the <picture> & <img> srcset and sizes attributes to create responsive & performant images.

The modern way of serving images

Transport is an important contributor to several environmental issues, including air pollution and climate change. The EU has set challenging objectives for tac

Determining the environmental impacts of conventional and alternatively fuelled vehicles through LCA - Publications Office of the EU

ESG totals 65% of all European ETF inflows in 2022

A look at the past, present, and future of tech debt.

10 Years of Tech Debt Research - by Abi Noda

People always talk about “P vs NP” like P problems are easy and NP problems are hard. This is a useful day-to-day model but also an oversimplification....

Problems harder than NP-Complete • Buttondown

Jürgen Schmidhuber believes AI will progress to the point where it surpasses human intelligence and will pay no attention to people

Rise of artificial intelligence is inevitable but should not be feared, ‘father of AI’ says | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Ben Nadel shares part of an interview with DHH on the beautiful freedom that server-side programming gives us as developers.


			DHH On The Freedom Of Server-Side Programming
		

The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise - Marc's Blog

Ben Nadel takes comfort in John Gall's law on building complex systems. And why starting simple isn't just practical, it's the only way to be successful.


			John Gall's Law On Building Complex Systems
		

A new update of my network home setup, to both hardware and software.

My network home setup - v4.0 | etcetera

Vulkan engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, prepare for attacks on infrastructure and spread disinformation

‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics | Cyberwar | The Guardian

The geology of Brazil's volcanic Trindade Island has fascinated scientists for years, but the discovery of rocks made from plastic debris in this remote turtle refuge is sparking alarm.

Brazilian researchers find 'terrifying' plastic rocks on remote island | Reuters

Maersk, me & Notpetya - Gavin Ashton

Photojournalists Alessio Mamo, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Ed Ram and Anastasia Vlasova have covered the situation in Ukraine since the Russian invasion last February. We hear from them about their experiences

A year of war in Ukraine as witnessed by Guardian photographers – photo essay | Ukraine | The Guardian

We’re now nearly a month into the year 2023. I’ve started a new job and have been doing a lot of research for new projects and auditing old code. This process has given me time to reflect on what is and is not working – and what I’d like to see going forward this year.

Things I want to see in JavaScript and Frontend development in 2023 • Paul Armstrong

Measuring a manager's impact is hard since outcomes take time. The manager takes full responsibility for the team - be it stagnation, execution woes, poor collaboration, churn, or a lack of focus. This post provides early evaluation metrics as well as tips for course correction.

Evaluating Managers: 5 heuristics to measure managerial impact – CodeKraft

“For me, passing means trying to be anything other than what I was, and what I fear so desperately I always will be: poor white trash.”

‘Some Things Never Leave You’: Christian Livermore on Poverty’s Indelible Marks - Longreads

They tend to treat their readers like fools without willpower. So you could argue that they’re wrong for the right reasons.

All the Personal-Finance Books Are Wrong - The Atlantic

For a small but growing network of countries, the world's go-to metric of economic health is no longer fit for purpose. 

Well-being: These countries are looking beyond GDP and economic growth

Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

Why the super rich are inevitable

Astro Islands (aka Component Islands) are a pattern of web architecture pioneered by Astro. “Islands architecture” was first coined by Etsy's frontend architect Katie Sylor-Miller in 2019, and expanded on by Preact creator Jason Miller.

Astro Islands 🚀 Astro Documentation

I see a lot of bad OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Usually they are just KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) given the OKR name. You know these because they tend to be something like In this post, I…

OKRs are hard. But I still love them | by Camille Fournier | Dec, 2022 | Medium

The world is reeling from shocks in geopolitics, energy and economics, which dominated the news in 2022. The question now is what comes next | The World Ahead

Why a global recession is inevitable in 2023 | The Economist

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been engaged in as […]

What Will Happen In 2023 - AVC

Forget these interview questions 🙅‍ and never ask them your potential employees in software development (or elsewhere).

10 worst interview questions

Despite claiming a “shadow ban,” Bolsonaro supporters flocked to Twitter on the promise of Musk’s takeover, say experts.

Musk has made Twitter a right-wing safe space in Brazil - Rest of World

How police, prosecutors and even the FBI helped spread the junk science of 911 call analysis through the American justice system.

Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science to Decide 911 Callers Were Liars — ProPublica

See A Satellite Tonight is my most successful side project so far, with 5 million users since launch in 2019. It's been entirely a solo project, and I've used it as a proving ground for a bunch of tech that I wanted to learn. It took dozens of APIs and services to put together the experience I wanted: The front page of See A Satellite Tonight

How "See A Satellite Tonight" Works | James Darpinian

The advancement by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will be built on to further develop fusion energy research.

Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Energy Breakthrough in the US - The New York Times

CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers | Stanford University 2017-22 (6th Year)

A China tem o mais poderoso mecanismo de vigilância da população alguma vez criado. Os manifestantes que protestaram no final de novembro contra a covid zero estão a confirmar isso mesmo

Sei o que fizeste na manifestação passada: como Xi Jinping controla o verdadeiro Big Brother - CNN Portugal

In this post, I will share 33 misconceptions about date and time, including the difference between UTC and GMT or the some issues with daylight saving time.

35 Misconceptions about date and time - Meziantou's blog

Wine commands wealth, prestige, and attention from aficionados. How much of what they admire is in their heads?

Is Wine Fake?—Asterisk

A deep dive into the problems with scaling CSS on large projects. Understand the evolution of CSS best practices.

The evolution of scalable CSS

This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside. Here's my attempt to make sense of it.

The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You

I Hate the News (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

For investors, the only thing worse than losing is having to admit that you’re a loser. Here’s how to clean up your portfolio without feeling ashamed.

How to Make Peace With Your Stock Market Losses - WSJ

Uma ordem dada na bolsa de Lisboa percorre 1.700 quilómetros até à cidade italiana de Bérgamo em 25 milissegundos. É lá onde o coração da Euronext “bate” ao ritmo de 12 mil milhões de euros por dia.

A 1.700 quilómetros de Lisboa bate o coração da bolsa – ECO

Social media’s newest billionaire overlord is in for a surprise.

Running Twitter Is Going to Disappoint Elon Musk - The Atlantic

World Energy Outlook 2022 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

Executive summary – World Energy Outlook 2022 – Analysis - IEA

Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world.

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe - The Atlantic

Bellingcat has identified a secretive group of Russian military engineers involved in missile strikes on Ukraine.

The Remote Control Killers Behind Russia’s Cruise Missile Strikes on Ukraine - bellingcat

Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google's cloud. We've run on bare virtual machines, we've run on Kubernetes. We've seen all the cloud has to offer, and tried most of it. It's fi...

Why we're leaving the cloud

Arguably the GOAT of Formula One, Sir Lewis Hamilton was in town recently for the Singapore Grand Prix. We had a private audience with the seven-time F1 world champion and gleaned some precious life lessons.

7-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton on the life lessons that have influenced and inspired him - CNA Luxury

AlphaTauri Nyck de Vries' route to a full-time Formula 1 race seat is one of the strangest of recent years - and deserves proper appreciation

How to turn a weird career into a late F1 chance - The Race

WE ALL WANT TO LEAD happier lives, but that’s no easy task. Our first stumbling block: Most of us aren’t even sure how to define happiness. Fortunately, philosophers and psychologists have come to the rescue, suggesting that there are two different types of happiness. First up: hedonic happiness. Think of a wonderful party with delicious food, sparkling conversation and all your favorite people in attendance. There’s great momentary pleasure and—fingers crossed—scant pain involved. Meanwhile,

Choosing Happiness - HumbleDollar

Tokyo's population is growing faster than New York and London, but its housing prices are less than half. How?

How Tokyo Avoided the Affordable Housing Crisis

Saving for Retirement Through Consumption:
An Application for Portugal

Ever wondered what magic happens behind the scenes of state management libraries for SPA frameworks? Jump in for a deep dive on selectors, subscribers, preventing re-renders, and more.

How to write your own state management library · Jude Hunter

For the first time in known history, hackers from within Russia have begun a systemized effort to hack… - Oct. 02, 2022. By Jason Jay Smart

Russian Citizens Wage Cyberwar From Within - Kyiv Post - Ukraine's Global Voice

<strong>The long read: </strong>She is venerated around the world. She has outlasted 12 US presidents. She stands for stability and order. But her kingdom is in turmoil, and her subjects are in denial that her reign will ever end. That’s why the palace has a plan.<br>

'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death | Queen Elizabeth II | The Guardian

Losing this badly will help wake up millions of Russians to some level of reality, and they will blame Putin. It is doubtful that the Russian military will keep fighting under these conditions for …

Russian Army Collapses—and Revolution—Near-Certain as Russia Loses War: When/Where Harder to Predict – Real Context News (RCN)

Dynamics over time are the key to analyzing just about anything, and they clearly favor Ukraine in Russia’s failing war of conquest (Russian/Русский перевод) By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry19…

Russia’s Defeat in Ukraine May Take Some Time, But It’s Coming and Sooner Than You Think – Real Context News (RCN)

On thinking the unthinkable (with postscript)

Going Nuclear - by Lawrence Freedman - Comment is Freed

Long cut off from the continent’s grid, Portugal and Spain built a system based on imports and alternatives like solar that is the envy of fellow European Union nations.

Portugal Could Hold an Answer for a Europe Captive to Russian Gas - The New York Times

Banco de Portugal aponta a redução dos preços no mercado imobiliário residencial como um dos riscos para a estabilidade financeira. Redução do peso da dívida pública também está mais ameaçada.

Banco de Portugal alerta para risco de queda dos preços da habitação – ECO

A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.

Web3 is going just great

Can we really harness our brain chemicals to give ourselves a blast of positivity? Researchers share their shortcuts to boosting oxytocin, serotonin and more

Watch Strictly, eat sauerkraut, win at Monopoly: expert tips for hacking your happy hormones | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

Absolute idleness is both harder and more rewarding than it seems.

How to Embrace Doing Nothing - The Atlantic

The difference between useEffect and useLayoutEffect - explained with a real-life example.

React Hooks - When to Use useLayoutEffect Instead of useEffect | JavaScript in Plain English

What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.

Understanding useMemo and useCallback

I once had a discussion with a founder of an Israeli startup developing a GPU-based database with a focus on speed. The work stack included Haskell and C++, among others, and the founder was...

Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? / Habr

George Leslie orchestrated an estimated 80% of all bank robberies in the US in the late 1800s, all while living a strange double life.

The architect who became the king of bank robberies

Scottish train operator ScotRail released a two-hour long MP3 file containing all of the components of its automated station announcements. Messing around with them is proving to be a huge …

Analyzing ScotRail audio announcements with Datasette—from prototype to production

The recently launched marvel of engineering, modern science, and international cooperation has been taking beautiful pictures of our universe with the help of JavaScript.

JavaScript had a hand in delivering James Webb Space Telescope’s images - The Verge

Pluralistic: 15 Aug 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

You may not need 40 hours per week to build a successful career and balanced life

The future of work isn't just remote, it's part-time

GPT-3 says the title for this post is very bad.

How to Create a Blog Post Title Optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News Data | Max Woolf's Blog

The Car Last summer I bought a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq SEL. It is a nice fuel-efficient hybrid with a decent amount of features like wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, wireless phone charging, heated seats, &amp; a sunroof.
One thing I particularly liked about this vehicle was the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system. As I mentioned before it had wireless Android Auto which seemed to be uncommon in this price range, and it had pretty nice, smooth animations in its menus which told me the CPU/GPU in it wasn&rsquo;t completely underpowered, or at least the software it was running wasn&rsquo;t super bloated.

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