My Week in Review (2017-07-17)

What Happened?

• Visited NYC Resistor
• Finished Ender's Game
• My first VR experience

Internet

• Useful
  • Early Retirement at 33: An Overview
• Video
  • How to Build and Manage Teams - CS183F
• Interesting
  • Counting steps via smartphones reveals intriguing clues about obesity
  • We Gathered 100 Open Source Sustainers — Here’s What We Learned
  • How we’re manipulated to rant about stuff we know nothing about
• Opinion
  • Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS
  • Seth's Blog: A shared and useful illusion
  • Maximize Your Wealth In 4 Hours Per Year
• News
  • A single photon is the first object to be teleported from the ground to an orbiting satellite
  • Your best teammate might someday be an AI algorithm
  • Microsoft is tapping unused TV spectrum to bring Internet connectivity to rural America
  • The next time you fly overseas, you may have to scan your face
  • Apple divulges how its secret AI gym is helping it track swimming on the Apple Watch
• Software
  • Upcoming Regular Expression Features
  • Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
  • The .io Error - Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration
  • 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
  • Announcing Gatsby 1.0.0 🎉🎉🎉
  • How We Scaled Our Cache and Got a Good Night's Sleep
  • Security updates for all active release lines, July 2017
  • Why the JVM is a Good Choice for Serverless Computing: John Chapin Discusses AWS Lambda at QCon NY

Reading

• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
• Algorithms to Live By (audiobook)