Lessons in Go best practices.

Interview with Robert Mosolgo, creator of graphql-ruby. Started in 2012 with railstutorial.org and is now a Senior Platform Engineer at GitHub. He saw GraphQL’s potential at a React conference talk on data fetching, and started working on the graphql ruby gem before the GraphQL spec was published. He talks about maintenance issues after gaining traction with Shopify and GitHub.

Tells a story about the value of approaching a web app with a microservice approach. Describes the development process up to deployment. Good overview to get a list of buzzwords and key terms for Google-ing later. Part 2 reuses the same storytelling method to describe maintaining the microservice system.

Fascinating post on structuring “discursive” writing as one goes along. Value prop: first draft is the last draft. The key is to write a leading second paragraph (first is just a hook) that the rest of the essay builds on. Downes lists his four article types: Argument, Explanation, Definition, and Description. He then goes on describe their unique outlines in detail.

Formal verification anecdote on how broken the field still is. Reminds me of dreams of artificial general intelligence—tech fatigue from trying, and failing again and again, to teach robots to think.

Smart, busy people are much more likely to be piqued by actual work done to show my own interest.

“Gian-Carlo Rota is professor of applied mathematics and philosophy at MIT…”

Based on a talk he did. Career advice.

Comprehensive overview of rate limiting strategies.

Using pencil and paper math to calculate a SHA-256 hash.

Hard-earned ML lessons and insights from practice.

Illustrated explanation of quantum computing.

Collects design principles by various designers or design teams.

IPFS’s new WIP documentation as a gitbook. Details merkle trees and the IPFS protocol.

Selling correctly is important in the practice of software engineering.

Detailed breakdown of incrementally moving a large cloud system to achieve zero downtime.

Features Coinbase as a mainstream Bitcoin exchange.

Creating new tools for reasoning by making UIs that work with the underlying data shapes inside machine learning models.

Three stand-out points on, and details on how to replicate, Stripe web design: crisp typography, sharp, quality images, visible call-to-action buttons. Opinion on color palette isn’t helpful.

Estimate of the resources it takes for Firefox web browser development: 1600 developers and plenty of HR, managers, sales, marketers, and executives.

A milieu of concise truths regarding the tech industry.

How do we leverage available hardware to speed up what we need to do? BlazingDB was built off the back of a data analysis contract. Their innovation was using GPU power to turn 30-day multi-terabyte database joins into 30 second queries.

Wikipedia + news to crowdsource news info pages.

History of rust and servo projects by Bobby Holley, Mozilla developer. Success comes from rust’s ability to scale.