Weekend Reading — Inner Galactic Lovers

This week we learn about the delayed effects of system design failures; multi-person authentication; we talk about comparison signs and code reviews; impossible errors that do happen; using lottery for better security; creating music from unrelated YouTube videos. Design Objective Design Trumps Training "Delayed effects of system design failures&

Weekend Reading — Too soon?

@LASTEXITshirts Too soon? This week we build a lightsaber app and revisit the PC XT; Node.js reactions do tumblr dot com; we practice naming things; and learn to not prematurely optimize; let AIs talk amongst themselves; we turn the gears on Ferrero Rocher. Tools of the Trade iTerm2 Version

Weekend Reading — Resistence is futile

How to download and print NASA’s 14 brilliant travel posters at home This week we remove the center line; we find a way to blame others; we struggle to name things; we pick on locking algorithms; we kill some dependencies; the Fitbit pregnancy test; we hack a toilet; the

Weekend Reading — A long time ago in a suburb far, far away ...

@skywalkertwink "wHO DID THIS" This week we explore existential UIs; we discover Emacs for Vim people; there's a better way to handle JS exceptions; "remote dynamic linking"; we visit the malware museum; times were tough before the GoPro; these are not the batteries you

Weekend Reading — How coffee works

This Photograph of the NYC Winter Storm Looks Like an Impressionist Painting Back from vacation. This week we add a feature and "it should be pretty easy"; gulpfile is lore; 2 unit tests and 0 integration tests; framework is a unit of time; USA vs USB; the server

Weekend Reading — Software party

@sarah_edo "Time to throw a *software party*" This week we're throwing a software party; the hardest problem in computer science is "npm complete"; how we stopped teaching kids about recursion; artisinal, small batch, uptime; we find the Internet's biggest blind spot;

Weekend Reading — Temporarily embarrassed geniuses

#starwars #calvinandhobbes This week we learn some functional programming; ES6 module loading in Node? beware of falling deer; we take a look at hiring; are you ready for laundry day? Design Objective @lukew Always be focusing: If you have a culture of learning, you don't have more than

Weekend Reading — Accidental Renaissance

/r/AccidentalRenaissance Of course there's a Reddit for that. This week we struggle with the website obesity crisis; we guesstimate like a pro; React is the back-door that teaches front-end developers about functional programming; more insights from young CTOs; a case study for defense in depth; let'

Weekend Reading — Taco Cat

@CuteEmergency "just a little reminder that taco cat spelled backwards is taco cat" This week we discover the simplest way to run Docker on OS X; we learn how to hide bugs in plain sight; that order of operations matters; why humility helps us avoid catastrophe; how to