Trains with built in obsolescence: https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/
A taste of what's to come https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/1838394/financial-contagion-hsbc-china-hong-kong
“The big money is not in the buying and the selling but in the waiting” - Charlie Munger. This talk is a good one, basically a condensed version of Cialdini's book Influence: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7sLrON7QY
Reflection is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
When I watch a talk like this, I am startled by all the complexity and syntax added to languages to hide some implementation details or allow you to write one function instead of several or whatever else. Everything has its use case, but generally I feel it's insane. Devs are forever learning the new hotness for a marginal benefit. Nobody ever masters their tools. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbfBJv0iXm8
Great podcast on the importance of software performance: https://www.se-radio.net/2023/08/se-radio-577-casey-muratori-on-clean-code-horrible-performance/
New skyscraper to be built in Saudi, Epicon
Another approach to solving the problems of multiple representations of data and the associated transformations required in currently popular web apps: "local-first software". Seems like is useful for different use cases that you may reach for HTMX. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=esMjP-7jlRE
In my experience, programmers totally overlook costs due to "buying the coffee company to make a cup of coffee" https://vimeo.com/644068002
Think this is true not just for dependencies, but also for changing the standard approach of doing something. There are many hidden costs beyond the benefits of the switch. For example, there may be the time cost of all devs on project having to learn the new approach. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wu8F-LbkgQA
Good Dalio talk on having an idea meritocracy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HXbsVbFAczg
"Rules can aid the wise, but they are snares to the fool" https://www.jstor.org/stable/45104797
Always been fascinated by this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Z2Oy8pPyQ
Managed to follow some Mastadon people - very nice https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzRCILEvY0
Good article on scheduling https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2018/08/scheduling-in-go-part1.html
Disappearing down a concurrency rabbithole... https://cs.brown.edu/people/mph/Herlihy91/p124-herlihy.pdf #programming
Talk on concurrency patterns in golang: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YEKjSzIwAdA
And the collolary: Good code isnt praiseworth; it's obvious.
When programmers start praising code, I start to think something horrible has happened #programming