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My Week in Review (2017-06-22)

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My Week in Review (2017-06-22)

Blake Embrey
Jun 22, 2017
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My Week in Review (2017-06-22)

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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)

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