My Week in Review (2017-08-09)

What Happened?

• Visited Victory Point Cafe and played some games
• Walked out to Inspiration Point
• PizzaHacker is the best pizza I've ever had
• Discovered Workshop Cafe today and it's perfect

Internet

• Favourite
  • Scaling Unsplash with a small team 📈👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
  • Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
  • Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide
  • Why religious identities are not immune to robust criticism
  • Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
  • It Starts Early: My Experience as a Female Tech Student
• Useful
  • YC's 2017 Summer Reading List
  • Costco vs. Amazon Fresh: A Real-World Grocery Shopping Showdown
• Interesting
  • Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing
  • Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins
  • How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content
  • J. Craig Venter and Elon Musk discussed faxing genomes through space
• Opinion
  • Apple’s Third Quarter Results
  • Botched Release of Beta HomePod OS Reveals Details of New 2017 iPhones
  • Seth's Blog: The management of whales
  • On Apple Removing VPN Apps From the App Store in China
  • Steven Levy: ‘How Apple Is Putting Voices in Users’ Heads — Literally’
  • Apple is about to do something their programmers definitely don’t want.
  • Seth's Blog: The Peter Possibility
  • Seth's Blog: Feels risky
  • Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google
• News
  • A biological fax machine could seed life through the galaxy
  • Tesla Is Getting Into the Offshore Wind Energy Game
  • Climate Change Could Bring Killer Humid Heatwaves to South Asia
  • Why a Birth Control Pill For Men Is Still Not Here
  • A Hyperloop Pod, Fired Through a Tube at 200 MPH for the First Time
• Software
  • Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is
  • A Year of Stories: Launching Is the Easy Part – Instagram Engineering
  • Building a query parser over a weekend
  • Faster Pagination in Mysql - Why Order By With Limit and Offset is Slow?
  • Eliminate the Database for Higher Availability
  • Story of a successful migration to Google Cloud Platform
  • Graph Databases: Living on the Edge
  • Taking FogBugz Forward
  • Scaling Node.js Applications

Reading

• I Will Teach You To Be Rich
• Finished Algorithms to Live By