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

Weekend Reading — Ice Bucket Challenge Ends Badly

@braddybb "oh my good god" This week we get a new pair of socks; the ==== comparison operator; we fix a bug in production; the tale of a startup with no servers; cryptomeopathy is bunk science; on lowering the bar and diversity in tech; boatload of people take the

Weekend Reading — One Skill, Two Skill

@DocHackenbush "The bittersweet moment when a signpost dies and its spirit leaves its body." This week we learn a valuable design lesson from a metal band; we fill out Form RFC 791; a lot to learn from the JavaScript developer survey; we play the Github programming game; security,

Weekend Reading — Ye Olde Web

oldweb.today Surf the old web in a vintage Netscape Navigator or IE 4 browser. This week we learn to Lerp; so, people still use SourceForge? the Simplified JavaScript Jargon file; human error is a thing we need to design for; are you receptive to pseudo-profound bullshit? there is no