My Week in Review (2017-08-09)

What Happened?

• Visited Victory Point Cafe and played some games

• Walked out to Inspiration Point

• PizzaHacker is the best pizza I've ever had

• Discovered Workshop Cafe today and it's perfect

Internet

• Favourite

  • Scaling Unsplash with a small team 📈👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

  • Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

  • Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide

  • Why religious identities are not immune to robust criticism

  • Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit

  • It Starts Early: My Experience as a Female Tech Student

• Useful

  • YC's 2017 Summer Reading List

  • Costco vs. Amazon Fresh: A Real-World Grocery Shopping Showdown

• Interesting

  • Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing

  • Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins

  • How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content

  • J. Craig Venter and Elon Musk discussed faxing genomes through space

• Opinion

  • Apple’s Third Quarter Results

  • Botched Release of Beta HomePod OS Reveals Details of New 2017 iPhones

  • Seth's Blog: The management of whales

  • On Apple Removing VPN Apps From the App Store in China

  • Steven Levy: ‘How Apple Is Putting Voices in Users’ Heads — Literally’

  • Apple is about to do something their programmers definitely don’t want.

  • Seth's Blog: The Peter Possibility

  • Seth's Blog: Feels risky

  • Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google

• News

  • A biological fax machine could seed life through the galaxy

  • Tesla Is Getting Into the Offshore Wind Energy Game

  • Climate Change Could Bring Killer Humid Heatwaves to South Asia

  • Why a Birth Control Pill For Men Is Still Not Here

  • A Hyperloop Pod, Fired Through a Tube at 200 MPH for the First Time

• Software

  • Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is

  • A Year of Stories: Launching Is the Easy Part – Instagram Engineering

  • Building a query parser over a weekend

  • Faster Pagination in Mysql - Why Order By With Limit and Offset is Slow?

  • Eliminate the Database for Higher Availability

  • Story of a successful migration to Google Cloud Platform

  • Graph Databases: Living on the Edge

  • Taking FogBugz Forward

  • Scaling Node.js Applications

Reading

• I Will Teach You To Be Rich

• Finished Algorithms to Live By