08/03 - 08/09

Business

• Investing for Designers and Developers. Tech often provides large incomes to younger people who have little experience with making tons of money; this post helps a lot with understanding how to make the most out of that money.

Culture

• The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities. Scala has some notorious bad actors in the open-source community and this read is a great overview on how to deal with it. Relevant for any community who has struggled with powerful but dangerous influences.
• Winning the Internet. It’s a newsletter about newsletters across the internet! V meta.
• The summer job as we know it is over. I mean, we knew this already.
• How Ferrero Rocher Chocolates Became a Status Symbol for Immigrants. I recommend this piece if you’re interested in the power that capitalizing on fortuitous impact can have on a food brand
• Chuck Norris and Hacking Twitter. I recommend this piece if you’ve ever wondered how big tech companies seem to get hacked so easily.

Tech

• Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared. Positive news about the improvements in energy efficiency and how these improvements benefit cloud computing.
• CodeGen: Semantic’s improved language support system. Amazing post about applying ASTs to represent code as data and query it as such.
• Adventures with Scala Collections. Technical deep-dive written by one of my coworkers on the oft-maligned Scala collections library that makes a case for how effective the library is for solving common programming problems at work.