My Week in Review (2017-07-17)

What Happened?

• Visited NYC Resistor

• Finished Ender's Game

• My first VR experience

Internet

• Useful

  • Early Retirement at 33: An Overview

• Video

  • How to Build and Manage Teams - CS183F

• Interesting

  • Counting steps via smartphones reveals intriguing clues about obesity

  • We Gathered 100 Open Source Sustainers — Here’s What We Learned

  • How we’re manipulated to rant about stuff we know nothing about

• Opinion

  • Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS

  • Seth's Blog: A shared and useful illusion

  • Maximize Your Wealth In 4 Hours Per Year

• News

  • A single photon is the first object to be teleported from the ground to an orbiting satellite

  • Your best teammate might someday be an AI algorithm

  • Microsoft is tapping unused TV spectrum to bring Internet connectivity to rural America

  • The next time you fly overseas, you may have to scan your face

  • Apple divulges how its secret AI gym is helping it track swimming on the Apple Watch

• Software

  • Upcoming Regular Expression Features

  • Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018

  • The .io Error - Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration

  • 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse

  • Announcing Gatsby 1.0.0 🎉🎉🎉

  • How We Scaled Our Cache and Got a Good Night's Sleep

  • Security updates for all active release lines, July 2017

  • Why the JVM is a Good Choice for Serverless Computing: John Chapin Discusses AWS Lambda at QCon NY

Reading

• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

• Algorithms to Live By (audiobook)