My Week in Review (2017-09-05)

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)