My Week in Review (2017-05-07)

What Happened?

• Moved to New York for the next two months, getting into a new routine
• Did not expect to have found myself reading so many articles, and unfortunately reading less books/audiobooks this week
• Wishing to build a better tracking/sharing platform of the articles I read each week

Internet

• Videos
  • How to Build a Product IV - Jan Koum - CS183F
  • How to Get Users and Grow - Alex Schultz - CS183F
  • The future we're building -- and boring
• Articles (software)
  • Programming as a Way of Thinking
  • The Time I Had to Crack My Own Reddit Password
  • What You Need To Know About SQL's Group By
  • Microsoft Flow + Azure Storage + WebJobs + MailChimp + Outlook
  • What You Need To Know About OAuth2 And Logging In With Facebook
  • VHDL or Verilog?
  • SQL is 43 years old - here’s 8 reasons we still use it today
  • Advances in Ad Blocking
  • The alarming state of secure coding neglect
  • Password reuse, credential stuffing and another billion records in Have I been pwned
  • Google Knew Hackers Could Launch a Gmail Viral Phishing Campaign Since 2011
  • I tried Haskell for 5 years and here’s how it was
  • The Horror in the Standard Library
• Everything else
  • You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you
  • I Spy
  • Dammit LinkedIn, I'm a college dropout! - Paul Holmes - can attest
  • Smartphones are the New Cigarettes - I have a similar feelings on smartphones, so I limit the times I use it (never around other people unless to take notes about the discussion or look something up for confirmation) and removed adicting applications (no social media applications installed on phone, I keep Instapaper/Reeder on my homescreen to read articles over feel good posts)
  • Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth) - I would recommend reading this article (and many others) as a reminder to yourself
  • Manhood - Insightful look into society
  • Storage engine design
  • Why Walking Helps Us Think
  • 8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year
  • EXCLUSIVE: Sean Spicer Tweeted a Bitcoin Address – Not His Password
  • The Story of NESticle, the Ambitious Emulator That Redefined Retro Gaming
  • The 9 questions that uncover the most surprising insights from employees
  • Daring Fireball: Interesting Survey of AirPod Users - I've really enjoyed having my Airpods with me and won't go anywhere without them (tend to listen to audiobooks around the house or music when running)
  • Y Combinator When No One Cared
  • Seth's Blog: When we understand
  • This Trump FCC Transition Official Just Made a Great Accidental Argument for Net Neutrality
  • The power of gold: Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons in New York
  • A ‘Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion’ in North Korea
  • I’d Pay You \$500,000 a Year, but You Can't Do the Work
  • The 10x developer is NOT a myth
  • We Were Warned About Flaws in the Mobile Data Backbone for Years. Now 2FA Is Screwed.
  • Your Garbage is Killing Me
  • How I Got Boned by Taxes Two Years in a Row
  • Untold Numbers of Canadians Are Streaming Live Online Without Their Knowledge
  • Open Sourcing My Personal Medical Record - I envy this and should probably investigate if there's anything I can do in this space
  • The six worst recent hypocrisies of the copyright industry
  • Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
  • How to Survive as a Solo Dev for like a Decade or so
  • Daring Fireball: Why Do Some People Not Return Their Shopping Carts?
  • Daring Fireball: Apple’s China Problem: WeChat
  • Seth's Blog: Pre-existing conditions
  • The Ultimate Credit Card Rewards Hack
  • Seth's Blog: And we just had a winner

Reading

• I Will Fear No Evil
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (audiobook)