My Week in Review (2017-06-22)

What Happened?

• I'm four days late with this review...
• Visited San Francisco for SustainOSS
• Tenement Museum on Sunday
• Smorgasburg on Saturday
• Dear Evan Hansen on broadway on Friday
• Your Name. in cinema on Thursday
• Visited Foursquare HQ on Thursday
• Checked out Brooklyn Desks on Wednesday

Internet

• Useful
  • The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching
  • Inside a Porn-Pimping Spam Botnet
  • Behind the scenes at creating Stuxnet
  • An Incomplete Guide to Inclusive Language for Startups and Tech
  • We're Having the Wrong Conversation About Food and Cultural Appropriation
  • Fake news is everywhere. Why? Because it’s unbelievably cheap
  • You Are Not Google
• Interesting
  • Kazakhstan Spent $5 Billion on a Death Star and It Doesn’t Even Shoot Lasers
  • Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?
  • Could you decode a message from an alien civilisation?
  • New evidence that all stars are born in pairs
  • To help rural kids do their homework, a Virginia county is using secret wireless spectrum
  • Review: a good-looking but hard-to-use button for controlling your iPhone
  • AI reveals global clothing preferences by data-mining Instagram photos
  • Plummeting clean energy prices are about to beat out coal around the world
  • $10 Million Isn't What it Used to Be
  • I Got Rejected by Apple Music… So I Redesigned It
  • These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books
  • Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Dickbars
  • Eyewitness Memory Is a Lot More Reliable Than You Think
  • Seth's Blog: Make two lists
  • Seth's Blog: A professional stumbler
  • Seth's Blog: Mental load and the worry cache
  • Seth's Blog: Gorilla marketing
  • Seth's Blog: What 99% looks like
  • Seth's Blog: Living in dissatisfaction
  • Seth's Blog: "But what if it works?"
  • Classic WTF: The Accidental Hire
• Opinion
  • Daring Fireball: Ikea Details Plans for Furniture Placement App Powered by Apple's ARKit
  • Daring Fireball: Why Reach Navigation Should Replace the Navbar in iOS Design
  • Daring Fireball: Wistron CEO Blabs About Waterproofing and 'Wireless Charging' for New iPhone
  • Daring Fireball: Stack Overflow Survey: Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs
  • Daring Fireball: John Markoff to Interview Scott Forstall Next Week
  • Daring Fireball: Brian Merchant Has Tony Fadell on Tape
  • Daring Fireball: Inductive Charging Is Not 'Wireless'
  • Daring Fireball: The Knives Come Out for Phil Schiller in Brian Merchant’s ‘The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone’
  • Daring Fireball: Emil Michael, Second-in-Command at Uber, Leaves Company
  • Daring Fireball: The 2017 iPad Pros
  • Daring Fireball: Steven Sinofsky’s WWDC 2017 Trip Report
  • First day with a new 2017 MacBook Pro
• News
  • Apple isn’t as late to automated driving as you might think
  • Apple has finally admitted it’s working on technology for self-driving cars
  • Wait, why does Trump want to change America’s air traffic control system?
  • Finnish Market Court cracks down hard on copyright trolls in new ruling
  • Trump, furious and frustrated, gears up to punch back at Comey testimony
• Software
  • Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code
  • How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
  • What I learned building code that builds (Visual Studio) Code
  • Hybrid Apps And React Native: A Time To Transition?
  • Are Float Labels Really That Problematic After All?
  • Habits of a Happy Node Hacker 2017
  • Node.fz: fuzzing the server-side event-driven architecture
  • Docs, Docs, Docs!
  • Stacks and Overflows
  • React State vs. Redux State: When and Why?
  • Amazon granted patent to restrict the open internet at in-store public WiFi hotspots

Reading

• Red Rising
• Thinking Fast and Slow (as audiobook)