August 17–23, 2020

Business

• Open-sourcing Have I Been Pwned. I loved all of the specifics that Troy Hunt goes into about running a massively successful open-source project.
• Attack of the Clones: TikTok’s Rival Kuaishou Lands in the US. Ponderous and thorough deep dive of Kuaishou.
• Open-Source Knowledge. Like the above link about learning in public, the author encourages using blogging, speaking, presenting to open-source your knowledge as well as your tech.
• Gateway Pages prevent PDF Shock. PDFs on the internet are still a rough experience and the author encourages alternatives to them.

Culture

• What’s the best thing? Fun Tom Scott Project that compares things and shows you how you did against others.

Tech

• sled.rs.An very thorough read on performance engineering within the context of sled, an open-source DB written in Rust.
• Steve Yegge’s Google Platform rant from 2011. TL;DR Google treats its employees better than its customers and that’s why Amazon ate Google’s lunch in the cloud platform space.
• Steve Yegge’s Google Deprecation rant from 2020. TL;DR it’s more of the same from the above post, just 9 years later.
• Gabriel Gonzalez’s talk on marketing Haskell to mainstream programmers. A bunch of good takeaways from marketing not just Haskell, but any non-mainstream technology.
• Low-Water Mark (part of a series on design patterns for distributed systems). This post focuses on how to telling logging machinery which portion of the log can be safely discarded to avoid runaway disk storage.

Work

• Learn in Public. Incredibly inspirational post on blogging, writing, speaking, and embracing the public growth that comes therein.
• On Being a Principal Engineer. Silvia Botros talks about the specifics of succeeding as a senior Individual Contributor.