No kidding
Reading
- WIRED: President Obama’s Reading List – you should read these.
- A Distributed Systems Reading List
- Beer and Concurrent HTTP Pipelines in Go
- Ambient Noise Masterlist
- What even is
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and how does it do its thing - Blogging about Midori – Interesting secret Microsoft project which produced some interesting research and lessons.
- DNS and BIND: Help for System Administrators
- MAKING ENERGY-HARVESTING COMPUTERS RELIABLE – CMU Engineering – Energy-harvesting computers?!
- Derek Sivers’s reading list – Some excellent books there! I might start with “Thinking, Fast and Slow.”
Stuff
- NOVA Aluminum (fountain pen)
- Antea by Stowa – Watches of the Bauhaus style
- (Gorgeous) ceramic mug on Etsy – looks beautifully-crafted and sturdy
- Kevin Russ on Redbubble – prints please! Kevin’s photographs are extraordinary.
- ISOLATE earphones from FlareAudio – These sound like the perfect way to be able to attend concerts again.
- Skagen – Women’s Watches – definitely not a present, I promise.
Code
- CMUAbstract/libchain – Related to the energy-harvesting article above. “Runtime library for safe intermittent programming using tasks and channels.”
- google/netstack – IPv4 and IPv6 userland network stack in Go. Curious to see how networking is architectured in userland.
- Refacoring parsing into state machine – PR by @campoy. Curious about his state machine approach.
- Primitive (App) for macOS – A neat $10 app which takes your photos and creates a water color vector illustration.
- drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide – A practical guide to securing macOS. I might try to go through this at some point if I’m feeling extra paranoid.
- dvyukov/go-fuzz – Fuzzing is the hot new thing.
- skx/bookmarks.public – LOL that’s exactly what this website is supposed to be: a searchable archive of bookmarks.
Watching
- “Better is One Day” – Trey McLaughlin’s choir
- VaShawn Mitchell – Joy (Live) – gospel never sounded so good.
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[HONNE - Warm On A Cold Night Sofar London](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvEbZKiwYgo) - Steve Jobs talking about what happens when the marketing/sales people take over from a ‘product’ founder
- Chance, the Rapper - Sunday Candy (Unofficial Music Video)
- Essence of Linear Algebra
- RubyConf 2016 - Methods of Memory Management in MRI by Aaron Patterson – This guy, he’s just so great. Also memory management is still a mystery to me in MRI.