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)