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My Week in Review (2017-09-05)

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My Week in Review (2017-09-05)

Blake Embrey
Sep 5, 2017
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My Week in Review (2017-09-05)

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Internet

  • Favourite

    • Don't Shit Where You Eat

    • What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer

    • Double your output (while working fewer hours)

    • Fucking Sue Me

    • You Are Not ‘Behind’

    • Outlawing War? It Actually Worked

  • Useful

    • The Laziest Solution Possible

    • It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read

    • The art of over-engineering your side projects

    • Encouragement and team dynamics

    • Telling people what you're working on

    • Ellen Pao: This Is How Sexism Works in Silicon Valley

    • How Seth Godin Would Launch a Business With a \$1,000 Budget

  • Interesting

    • Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation

    • A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping a Journal

    • Stress: How it affects us and how to deal with it

    • The Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a Thread

    • On The New York Times Claim That Trump’s iPhone Doesn’t Have a Web Browser

    • Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff

    • Who Is Marcus Hutchins?

  • Opinion

    • 10 Financial Advisors Share the Craziest Ways Clients Have Invested Their Money

    • Eight Ideas for the 78% of Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck

    • How to Get Over Feeling Envious of Other People's Money and Success

    • Your Financial Thermometer

    • Inspiration from Manoush Zomorodi, Linus Torvalds, ALA.NI, Ernest Hemingway, and More

    • ‘No Madness Like American Madness: Scenes From a Debacle in Phoenix’

    • Seth's Blog: Irresistible is rarely easy or rational

    • This is What Happens When You Start a Business After a Career Setback

  • News

    • As Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned

    • Here’s how to get to Alpha Centauri: propel a tiny spacecraft on the tip of a powerful laser beam

    • Journalists Generally Do Not Use Secure Communication

    • Elon Musk's brilliant email rule at Tesla

    • Donald Trump’s True Allegiances

    • What is North Korea trying to hit?

    • Trump’s Volatility in Asia Distresses a Longtime U.S. Ally: Australia

  • Software

    • Using GraphQL? Why Facebook Now Owns You 🐲

    • How to travel the world as a developer

    • 3 Ways to Stop Designing for Addiction

    • Deploying a TypeScript + Node AWS Lambda Function with Serverless

    • How to build a Scalable Crawler on the cloud, that can mine thousands of data points, costing less…

    • Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping

    • Architecting Electron Applications for 60fps

    • Rapid release at massive scale

    • Using Ansible for deploying serverless applications

    • Building a Serverless E-Commerce App with AWS Lambda, Stripe and React

    • 3 Questions about Serverless Technology

    • Let’s talk about Javascript string encoding

    • A Guide To Virtual Reality For Web Developers

    • The PRPL Pattern

    • What's a network interface?

Reading

  • What Technology Wants

  • Just started Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (audiobook)

  • Finished The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (audiobook)

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