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.

How I Hacked my Car :: Programming With Style


    
      iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser · Felix Krause
    
  

Why is recruiting developers so difficult?

Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head.

Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout? | WIRED

When The New York Times paywall launched , its meter count was the same for all users. Since then, The Times has transformed into a data-driven digital company, and its paywall is now successfully using a causal machine learning model called the Dynamic Meter to set personalized meter limits, making for a smarter paywall.

How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter | by Rohit Supekar | NYT Open | NYT Open

Let’s move on to another question that I get asked frequently. Q: How do I progress to the next level in my career? This is a broad question, and every single person is different. However, this question is interesting because it can be used to begin some valuable self-inquiry. What we’ll do is: Explore what […]

How do I progress to the next level in my career? - The Engineering Manager

I think there's a lot of cool smart home stuff that could be realised, if a home could know exactly who is in what room at any time.

A Truly Smart Home Should Know Who Is In What Room — Benjamin Mayo


persistent.info: Infinite Mac on a (Virtual) LAN


Apple Passkeys are coming this fall to replace the password for good. Here's how they work and why they're better.

Exclusive: Apple just showed us how it will kill the password forever | Tom's Guide

The James Webb Space Telescope just dropped an amazing new image of the black hole-centered "Cartwheel Galaxy" in greater detail than ever seen before. 

Incredible New James Webb Image Shows "Cartwheel Galaxy" In Glorious Detail

The Council approves new rules for a fair and competitive digital sector through the Digital Markets Act.

DMA: Council gives final approval to new rules for fair competition online - Consilium

Ditch your guidebooks and venture to these lesser-known gems—there are so many underrated European cities you won't want to miss on your visit.

The 22 Most Underrated European Cities Worth Visiting, From Italy to Croatia | Condé Nast Traveler

A top Russia advisor to three U.S. presidents explains why the world shouldn’t fall for Moscow’s narrative that it can wait out the West in…

Fiona Hill: Putin's Running Out of Time in Ukraine War

Roadtrip de 10 dias pela zona dos fjords na Noruega: planeamento, roteiro dos dez dias e melhores trilhos de cada local.

Roadtrip de 10 dias na Noruega - Roteiro 📍 - Dama de Ouros

The 'Uber Files' leak reveals the power of the company’s multimillion-pound lobbying effort – and how it worked with governments across the world to undercut workers’ rights.

The Uber Leak Exposes the Global War on Workers

At WWDC 2022, I was very excited to see Apple announce a new feature for macOS and iPad called Stage Manager. It's a radical new way to manage windows.

Rising from the ashes: Stage Manager - Tech Reflect

Günstigere Fahrkarten sollen die Menschen in Busse und Bahnen locken und damit auch den Autoverkehr verringern. Das funktioniert offenbar.

Weniger Stau durch 9-Euro-Ticket - Analyse von Tomtom-Daten - Wirtschaft - SZ.de

Tiny countries are fascinating. They always remind me of fairy tales (“there was a small kingdom where everybody was happy”), even if with some un-Grimm-ly tones (“they happily never paid a dime of taxes ever after”). They also tell us something about the history of Europe and its languages.

Princely Tongues: The Languages of Europe’s Five Smallest Countries

Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister wanted a more assertive place for his country on the international stage—at the expense of atonement and historical accountability.

How Shinzo Abe Sought to Rewrite Japanese History | The New Yorker

In this post I argue that integration-vs-unit is a confused, and harmful, distinction.I provide a more useful two-dimensional mental model instead.The model ...

Unit and Integration Tests

How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify - Spotify Engineering : Spotify Engineering

  How did NASA communicate with the Apollo astronauts, hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth? The premodulation processor 1  (below) was...

Reverse-engineering the Apollo spacecraft's FM radio

Things You Should Know About Indexes and Transactions. This post covers internal workings of indexes and transactions of RDBMSs.

Things You Should Know About Databases

Dunning–Kruger Effect explains why the least competent at a task often incorrectly rate themselves as high-performers because they do not know otherwise.

Dunning–Kruger Effect - The Decision Lab

A collection of my thoughts on maintaining a component library as part of an existing design system used by a large number of frontend applications.

Notes on maintaining an internal React component library | Gabe's blog


Researchers have just discovered a previously unknown process that makes sense of the 'secret decisions' plants make when releasing carbon back into the atmosphere.

Plants Appear to Be Breaking Biochemistry Rules by Making 'Secret Decisions'

Writing CSS has probably never been more fun and exciting than it is today. In this post we’ll take a look at common problems and use cases we all have to face in our work and how to solve them with modern CSS. If you’re interested, we’ve also just recently covered [CSS auditing tools](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/), [CSS generators](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-generators/), [front-end boilerplates](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/useful-frontend-boilerplates-starter-kits/) and [VS code extensions](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/useful-vs-code-extensions-web-developers/) — you might find them useful, too.

Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges — Smashing Magazine

A couple of weeks ago I was casually chatting with a friend, masks on, social distance, the usual stuff. He was telling me how he was trying to, and I quote, detox from the broker app he was using. I…

How To Create A Fully Automated AI Based Trading System With Python | by Rubén Romero | Towards Data Science

Apple’s executives had a critical design decision to make about the company’s riskiest product in years. It was 2019, and a growing team of Apple engineers had been working for more than three years on a headset that combined augmented and virtual reality capabilities. Now they had to figure out ...

Behind the Apple Design Decisions That Bogged Down Its Mixed-Reality Headset — The Information

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.

Quanta Magazine

Everything you need to know about web applications in modern web development. You will learn about traditional websites, full-stack web applications, client-side and server-side rendering/routing, single-page applications, code splitting, APIs, microservices, static site generation ...

Web Applications 101

Algorithm set for deployment in Japan could identify giant temblors faster and more reliably

Gravity signals could detect earthquakes at the speed of light | Science | AAAS

Normas da “Lei dos Metadados” foram chumbadas pelo Tribunal Constitucional português. Para melhor entendermos o que está em causa, importa perceber o que dizem essas normas e o que são, afinal, metadados.

Metadados, a lei que nem sabias que existia e uma questão de privacidade

Why I left Google: work-life balance / Scott Kennedy

This is a story of how it took me way too long to ship a product, and I ended up paying for a competitor product instead.

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