Hard-to-swallow truths they won’t tell you about software engineer job | Hacker News
I would encourage anybody interested in a professional career (in anything) to zoom out and keep in mind that almost every profession is ultimately about providing service. Source: Hard-to-swallow truths they won’t tell you about software engineer job | Hacker News
Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts – The New York Times
Banks generally won’t say how often they are closing accounts this way, and they’re not tracking how often they get it wrong. But federal data offer clues. Source: Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts – The New York Times
‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess | Hacker News
If you squint, could apply some of those observation to the world of software. Source: ‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess | Hacker News
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Source: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
What it was like working for GitLab
You can’t determine what is “minimal viable” without data Source: What it was like working for GitLab
Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners – Global Investigative Journalism Network
Searching for foreign assets of a Middle East king in 2021, Kehoe and her colleagues found that the monarch secretly owned 14 luxury homes in the UK and the US via a network of front companies in tax havens. They then got dramatic confirmation when the secret client’s home address was listed by formation agents […]
Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
Any Markdown code block tagged js will be executed as JavaScript in the user’s browser. This is an incredibly powerful abstraction—anything you can do in JavaScript (which these days is effectively anything at all) can now be seamlessly integrated into your document. Source: Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
How I keep myself Alive using Golang
As an incident commander, you are empowered and encouraged to pull anyone in from anywhere in the company to resolve the incident as quickly as possible. By resolve, I mean remove customer impact which means you must identify, triage, fix/put a short term band aid on and identify and record long term actions. We then […]
CrowdStrike’s Impact on Aviation – heavymeta.org
Overnight, about 8.5 million computers blue screened, affecting hospitals, banks, 911 systems–as the New York Times put it, “It is more apt to ask what was not affected.” The answer is Linux, Macs, and phones. Source: CrowdStrike’s Impact on Aviation – heavymeta.org
How I Use “AI”
Building entire webapps with technology I’ve never used before. Teaching me how to use various frameworks having never previously used them. Converting dozens of programs to C or Rust to improve performance 10-100x. Trimming down large codebases to significantly simplify the project. Writing the initial experiment code for nearly every research paper I’ve written in […]