Interesting data point about hiring someone. I stay convinced that it needs to take time, it kinds of confirm it.
SQLite keeps being a fun database full of little nuggets. Plenty of cases when it could fly but when somehow we use the bigger players instead.
Interesting take, it's a bit what I feel coming from C++ and keeping an eye on Rust, it's accumulating features fast and there's a risk of things becoming inconsistent.
Still keeping an eye on what's available for crunching numbers in Rust. Apache Arrow looks like an interesting option.
Interesting use of CSS custom properties to make dynamic color schemes easy and manageable for webpages.
Very thorough analysis on the kind of web frontend performances you can expect for most people on mobile. Since we basically need to reduce the footprint of such frontends to make this sustainable again this is a very welcome article.
I like this kind of list of "gotchas" for languages or frameworks. This one seems to be fairly comprehensive in the case of Go. There are a few I wouldn't expect in such a recent and fashionable language, oh well...
Or why you can't really trust SMS for 2FA... it's just too much of a wild west there.
Not exactly new, but easy to loose sight of it when in the hamster wheel. Clearly a good reminder.
Or why you should think twice before embarking into a refactoring when it's not directly related to some feature development...
Looks like a very interesting extensions to help people get into a codebase or to record tutorials.
Interesting take on the Malthusian argument. It's been debated for a while now and was clearly wrong. Still maybe we didn't draw the right lessons from that mistake.
Oh totally missed that Python 3.8 introduced protocols. Now that makes mypy very useful, I was slightly concerned at how strict interfaces tended to be with nominal types.
Excellent series of posts on how to pick your color scales for your data visualization projects.
Looks like an interesting CSS framework for including data visualization in HTML frontends. The fact that you can simply have the data in the HTML is particularly appealing.
What!? You don't know LaTeX yet? Go learn it, now! :-)
I like when papers aren't about "mine is better than your". This is an interestingly balanced take on those two popular option showing where they fit best. Shows good reasons for a polyglot approach: as usual use the best tool for the job.
Long and very interesting series of posts debunking the myths around Sparta. Where we learn it was a very unequal society... and that on top of being very violent... turns out, once again, all that violence was for nothing. The end of the regime is actually fairly pathetic.
Still somehow they managed to build a myth thanks to a few accomplices. That served them somewhat well but didn't last long. And now that myth is permeating pop culture and inspires toxic masculinity.
Smoke and mirrors.
Yes, the permission model of GitHub gives me the creeps as well... A couple of the examples given in there are really problematic and need to be addressed. This is even more important seeing the amount of stuff hosted on GitHub nowadays.
Maybe a way out of the supply chain attacks? Will take time and adoption of course.