My Week in Review (2017-06-22)

What Happened?

• I'm four days late with this review...

• Visited San Francisco for SustainOSS

• Tenement Museum on Sunday

• Smorgasburg on Saturday

• Dear Evan Hansen on broadway on Friday

• Your Name. in cinema on Thursday

• Visited Foursquare HQ on Thursday

• Checked out Brooklyn Desks on Wednesday

Internet

• Useful

  • The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching

  • Inside a Porn-Pimping Spam Botnet

  • Behind the scenes at creating Stuxnet

  • An Incomplete Guide to Inclusive Language for Startups and Tech

  • We're Having the Wrong Conversation About Food and Cultural Appropriation

  • Fake news is everywhere. Why? Because it’s unbelievably cheap

  • You Are Not Google

• Interesting

  • Kazakhstan Spent \$5 Billion on a Death Star and It Doesn’t Even Shoot Lasers

  • Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?

  • Could you decode a message from an alien civilisation?

  • New evidence that all stars are born in pairs

  • To help rural kids do their homework, a Virginia county is using secret wireless spectrum

  • Review: a good-looking but hard-to-use button for controlling your iPhone

  • AI reveals global clothing preferences by data-mining Instagram photos

  • Plummeting clean energy prices are about to beat out coal around the world

  • \$10 Million Isn't What it Used to Be

  • I Got Rejected by Apple Music… So I Redesigned It

  • These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books

  • Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Dickbars

  • Eyewitness Memory Is a Lot More Reliable Than You Think

  • Seth's Blog: Make two lists

  • Seth's Blog: A professional stumbler

  • Seth's Blog: Mental load and the worry cache

  • Seth's Blog: Gorilla marketing

  • Seth's Blog: What 99% looks like

  • Seth's Blog: Living in dissatisfaction

  • Seth's Blog: "But what if it works?"

  • Classic WTF: The Accidental Hire

• Opinion

  • Daring Fireball: Ikea Details Plans for Furniture Placement App Powered by Apple's ARKit

  • Daring Fireball: Why Reach Navigation Should Replace the Navbar in iOS Design

  • Daring Fireball: Wistron CEO Blabs About Waterproofing and 'Wireless Charging' for New iPhone

  • Daring Fireball: Stack Overflow Survey: Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

  • Daring Fireball: John Markoff to Interview Scott Forstall Next Week

  • Daring Fireball: Brian Merchant Has Tony Fadell on Tape

  • Daring Fireball: Inductive Charging Is Not 'Wireless'

  • Daring Fireball: The Knives Come Out for Phil Schiller in Brian Merchant’s ‘The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone’

  • Daring Fireball: Emil Michael, Second-in-Command at Uber, Leaves Company

  • Daring Fireball: The 2017 iPad Pros

  • Daring Fireball: Steven Sinofsky’s WWDC 2017 Trip Report

  • First day with a new 2017 MacBook Pro

• News

  • Apple isn’t as late to automated driving as you might think

  • Apple has finally admitted it’s working on technology for self-driving cars

  • Wait, why does Trump want to change America’s air traffic control system?

  • Finnish Market Court cracks down hard on copyright trolls in new ruling

  • Trump, furious and frustrated, gears up to punch back at Comey testimony

• Software

  • Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code

  • How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

  • What I learned building code that builds (Visual Studio) Code

  • Hybrid Apps And React Native: A Time To Transition?

  • Are Float Labels Really That Problematic After All?

  • Habits of a Happy Node Hacker 2017

  • Node.fz: fuzzing the server-side event-driven architecture

  • Docs, Docs, Docs!

  • Stacks and Overflows

  • React State vs. Redux State: When and Why?

  • Amazon granted patent to restrict the open internet at in-store public WiFi hotspots

Reading

• Red Rising

• Thinking Fast and Slow (as audiobook)