Bookmarks for December 2nd
Things from around the web, as seen on December 2nd Learn programming by visualizing python execution – This is some damn impressive I'm speechless. Scala Macros: "Oh God Why?" – Jay Kreps – Yup, Scala...
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Things from around the web, as seen on December 6th through December 7th: Schema evolution in Avro, Protocol Buffers and Thrift — Martin Kleppmann’s blog – Thinking about how to evolve your API or...
View ArticleBookmarks for December 21st through January 13th
Things from around the web, as seen on December 21st through January 13th: Learn you a ScalaZ – A couple of tutorials trying to introduce you to ScalaZ, Scala's answer to common functional patterns...
View ArticleBookmarks for January 13th through January 16th
Things from around the web, as seen on January 13th through January 16th: The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3′s Source Code – Code clarity is vitally important, and several of the notes stressed here are...
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Things from around the web, as seen on January 18th How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off – Anil Dash – "It's not inevitable that every change on the web has to involve drama" The...
View ArticleBookmarks for January 18th through January 23rd
Things from around the web, as seen on January 18th through January 23rd: LaunchRock – Set up a “Launching Soon” page in minutes – If you are thinking of doing a startup, knowing your market is an...
View ArticleBookmarks for January 25th through January 30th
Things from around the web, as seen on January 25th through January 30th: Why Do Americans Hate Android And Love Apple? – ReadWrite – A good description of exactly what irks android fan boys about...
View ArticleBookmarks for February 2nd through February 3rd
Things from around the web, as seen on February 2nd through February 3rd: Stacks get hacked: The inevitable rise of data warfare – O’Reilly Radar – "you realize that you can take a similar approach to...
View ArticleBookmarks for February 5th through February 13th
Things from around the web, as seen on February 5th through February 13th: Voxel.js: A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node – This looks quite cool. I hope that it goes...
View ArticleBookmarks for February 13th through February 16th
Things from around the web, as seen on February 13th through February 16th: Making the Move to HTML5, Part 1 – Gamasutra – HTML+Javascript from a professional gamedev viewpoint. Markdown.css – make...
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Learning management skills as a developer
I’m embarking on a program to build up my management skills and learn more about what the business that I work in actually does. To achieve that I’m reading some classic management books. Why?? Because...
View ArticleBookmarks for February 24th through May 16th
Things from around the web, as seen on February 24th through May 16th: mnot’s blog: Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs – Interesting take on trying to standardise HTTP error conditions the most important...
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A return to form for Google IO
Google IO Glass Office Hours – By Fumi Google IO Keynote was watched by nearly a million people, six thousand of them in the auditorium, and the sense of disappointment in some cases was palpable....
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Prism and NSA Spying: why I don’t (entirely) believe it.
[EDIT: Note, I have absolutely no inside knowledge here whatsoever. I haven't seen anything except via the stuff the Guardian has published publically.] You may have read this morning that the Guardian...
View ArticleBookmarks for May 19th through August 1st
Things from around the web, as seen on May 19th through August 1st: Lanyrd now has a directory for speakers for conferences and events – You really can't complain that you can't find women to speak at...
View ArticleBookmarks for August 5th
Things from around the web, as seen on August 5th The Ecuadorian Library — Geek Empire — Medium – Excellent and insightful discussion of the Assange, NSA, Snowden, Wikileaks debacle. CoreOS –...
View ArticleBookmarks for August 10th through November 13th
Things from around the web, as seen on August 10th through November 13th: The birth of Xbox Live | Polygon – How Xbox Live came about. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO – Great notes on...
View Article2013 In Review
It’s the new year, and as should be typical, it’s probably time to write an update on my blog about what I’ve done this year. It’s been an interesting year. After 6 years of working at the Guardian, I...
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Scale Camp – A Brief History
In organising the upcoming Scale Summit unconference, I’ve been reflecting on the history of Scale Camp, and what the purpose and point of running these events was to me. Velocity Conference starts it...
View ArticlePrism and NSA Spying: why I don’t (entirely) believe it.
[EDIT: Note, I have absolutely no inside knowledge here whatsoever. I haven’t seen anything except via the stuff the Guardian has published publically.] You may have read this morning that the Guardian...
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