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WIRED
The Best RSS Feed Readers (Because the Internet Is a Mess)2 min read · Oct 10th · The internet is a mess. Ignore the algorithm and distill the web down to the things you actually care about.
digital life
simplethread.com
20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer9 min read · Oct 8th · Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all…
Gordon Brander
Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?7 min read · Sep 11th · TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first,…
technology
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The combination of JavaScript, dynamic servers, and XMLHTTPRequest allowed developers to stitch together websites that—if you squinted—began to look kind of like apps. These weren’t good apps, they were low-end apps.
PC apps were mostly a solo experience. The web ran as shared software on a server. It was multiplayer by nature.
There was an additional sociotechnical challenge: the web is a standards-based ecosystem. Standards emerge in retrospect, when a problem space is so well-understood that everyone can agree on how it should work.
youtube.com
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes InterviewOct 4th · Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pel...
CBS News
Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation8 min read · Oct 4th · Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.
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The complaints say Facebook's own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest—but the company hides what it knows
Frances Haugen: And as soon as the election was over, they turned them back off or they changed the settings back to what they were before, to prioritize growth over safety.
"If any research had identified an exact solution to these complex challenges, the tech industry, governments, and society would have solved them a long time ago."
Guardian Tech
Facebook whistleblower to take her story before the US Senate3 min read · Oct 5th · Frances Haugen, who came forward accusing the company of putting profit over safety, will testify in Washington on Tuesday
TNW
The most in-demand programming languages of 20212 min read · Sep 29th · Want to know which are the top programming languages companies are looking for in 2021? Jobs portal, Jobbio, searched their global database to find out.
IEEE Spectrum
Top Programming LanguagesAug 25th · Is Python still at the top? See this year's Top Programming Languages
programming
TNW
Object-oriented programming is dead. Wait, really?~13 min read · Jul 24th · The main idea behind object-oriented programming is as simple as can be: you try to break a program in parts that are as powerful as the whole.
programming
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The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
Then Alan Kay came around in 1966 or 1967 and theorized that one could use encapsulated mini-computers that didn’t share their data, but rather communicated through messaging
Then Alan Kay came around in 1966 or 1967 and theorized that one could use encapsulated mini-computers that didn’t share their data, but rather communicated through messaging
b4x.com
B4X Video TutorialsMay 15th · Make sure to set the video resolution to 1080P (gear icon).It is recommended to view the videos on a desktop, in full screen mode.Products guides are available here: B4A, B4J, B4i, B4RIf you are…
MIT Technology Review
The Colonial pipeline ransomware hackers had a secret weapon: self-promoting cybersecurity firms1 min read · May 24th · On January 11, antivirus company Bitdefender said it was “happy to announce” a startling breakthrough. It had found a flaw in the ransomware that a gang known as DarkSide was using to freeze computer…
technology
Stack Overflow
Best practices for writing code comments7 min read · Jul 6th · While there are many resources to help programmers write better code—such as books and static analyzers—there are few for writing better comments. While it's easy to measure the quantity of comments…
programming
Lifehack
7 Best Noise-Canceling Headphones For Productivity Boost5 min read · Jul 29th · With more people working from home, many are looking for headphones that block out distracting. Here are the 7 best noise-canceling headphones.
productivity
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you should spend the first 5-10 minutes of your day making a list of what tasks and projects you need to complete
you should spend the first 5-10 minutes of your day making a list of what tasks and projects you need to comple
The Oatmeal
Why it breaks your brain to take a complimentAug 3rd · The science and psychology of why taking compliments is so hard.
psychology
fun
Raspberry Pi
How pillars and triangles can focus your game design~12 min read · Jul 15th · In game design, freedom can lead to paralysis. But game pillars and the iron triangle can help you focus on what’s important.
Fast Company
Why are so many products badly designed?4 min read · Jun 16th · The basics of good design are often ignored. But it’s time for companies and consumers to start demanding more.
design
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Everyone, from consumers to programmers to business leaders, must become more educated about what good design really means
We’re often told that we live in the greatest era of technological progress in history. But this can’t be true if the technologies we depend on are hard to use
Nearly 80 years ago, we learned the hard way that when people make mistakes, it’s usually the fault of the technology itself, not the people using it.
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