{{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="How GPT3 Works - Visualizations and Animations – Jay Alammar – Visualizing" link="https://jalammar.github.io/how-gpt3-works-visualizations-animations" domain="jalammar.github.io" date="2020-08-11" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Discussions: Hacker News (397 points, 97 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (247 points, 27 comments) Translations: German, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Turkish The tech world is abuzz with GPT3 hype. Massive language models (like GPT3) are starting to surprise us " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998960.png" title="Availability Group issues fixed with Alerts - Wayne Sheffield" link="https://blog.waynesheffield.com/wayne/archive/2020/08/availability-group-issues-fixed-with-alerts" domain="blog.waynesheffield.com" date="2020-08-10" tags="data, database, sql, tech" excerpt="Learn how to use the SQL Server Agent Alerting system to detect Availability Group issues and to respond to them by running jobs." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Katie Sylor-Miller - Frontend Architect at Etsy | StaffEng" link="https://staffeng.com/stories/katie-sylor-miller" domain="staffeng.com" date="2020-08-10" tags="architecture, career, interviews, tech" excerpt="This story was recorded in August, 2020. Learn more about Katie on her website, Linkedin, and Twitter. Tell us a little about your current role: your title, the company you work at, and generally what sort of work does your team do? I work at Etsy, which is the world’s leading on" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997655.jpg" title="Applying Conway's Law to improve your software development | ThoughtWorks" link="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/applying-conways-law-improve-your-software-development" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2020-08-07" tags="architecture, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="Many organizations have become adept at identifying what they need from software development projects, based on a keen understanding of their business goals. Even so, they’re often surprised to find out that the end results don’t achieve the transformative impact they were expect" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998959.jpg" title="A Founder's Guide to Writing Well — 8 Writing Tips | First Round Review" link="https://firstround.com/review/a-founders-guide-to-writing-well" domain="firstround.com" date="2020-08-06" tags="psychology" excerpt="There's a long list of most frequently-cited skills for becoming a successful entrepreneur. One that rarely makes the list is effective writing. Upstart CEO Dave Girouard pens this thoughtful case for the importance of strong writing in the startup world — and his tips for leveli" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998938.gif" title="Designing for the Appearance of Speed | by Bill Chung | Medium" link="https://medium.com/@juneuprising/designing-for-the-appearance-of-speed-aaabc7f568c2" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-03" tags="design, product, psychology, tech" excerpt="The jury has spoken: performance, conversion, and brand engagement are inextricably connected." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997586.png" title="Why Perceived Performance Matters, Part 1: The Perception Of Time — Smashin" link="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/why-performance-matters-the-perception-of-time" domain="smashingmagazine.com" date="2020-08-03" tags="design, psychology, tech" excerpt="In this article, Denys Mishunov aims to provide you with the reasons and theories for why things function in certain way. He will use examples that are observable in the offline world and, using principles of psychology, research and analysis in psychophysics and neuroscience, he" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998956.jpg" title="Real-time cinematic short Memories of Australia stirs powerful emotions - U" link="https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotlights/real-time-cinematic-short-memories-of-australia-stirs-powerful-emotions" domain="unrealengine.com" date="2020-08-01" tags="gaming, tech" excerpt="When Andrew Svanberg Hamilton left his native Australia to pursue a career in game development on the other side of the world, he took with him deeply ingrained memories of family and landscape. Now he’s recreated them in a beautiful short film, rendered in real time in Unreal En" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998950.png" title="Linters aren't in your way. They're on your side - Stack Overflow Blog" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/07/20/linters-arent-in-your-way-theyre-on-your-side" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2020-08-01" tags="code, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998939.png" title="The State Of Pixel Perfection" link="https://ishadeed.com/article/pixel-perfection" domain="ishadeed.com" date="2020-08-01" tags="code, design, javascript, product, tech" excerpt="A walkthrough of the term pixel perfection and if it's still relevant today or not." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998954.jpg" title="Ethical technology: From purpose to practice | Perspectives | ThoughtWorks" link="https://www.thoughtworks.com/perspectives/edition11-ethical-technology-article" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2020-08-01" tags="politics, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="This issue of Perspectives explores the strategies and frameworks that enable enterprises to foster an ethical technology practice." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997908.png" title="Your blog doesn’t need a JavaScript framework /// Iain Bean" link="https://iainbean.com/posts/2020/your-blog-doesnt-need-a-javascript-framework" domain="iainbean.com" date="2020-08-01" tags="architecture, programming, tech" excerpt="Why I choose Eleventy over Gatsby for my new website" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998945.webp" title="Research-backed actions to help communicate more effectively" link="https://www.fastcompany.com/90531591/these-13-research-backed-actions-will-help-you-communicate-more-effectively" domain="fastcompany.com" date="2020-07-31" tags="career, leadership, psychology" excerpt="University of Oregon professors offer science-backed strategies to converse and connect with coworkers, clients, and family in a virtual environment." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055998946.jpg" title="Go hard and go home: what it’s like designing during a pandemic | by Jordan" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/go-hard-and-go-home-what-its-like-designing-during-a-pandemic-a66ab7aaaba1" domain="medium.com" date="2020-07-31" tags="design, product" excerpt="At the end of April 2020, the Australian Government introduced a range of measures to help small businesses deal with the impact of COVID-19. JobKeeper was one of those measures. It was basically a…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global - The Atlant" link="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197" domain="theatlantic.com" date="2020-07-31" tags="politics, tech, ai" excerpt="Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997678.jpg" title="37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong" link="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FaJaCgqBKphrDzDSj/37-ways-that-words-can-be-wrong" domain="lesswrong.com" date="2020-07-27" tags="learning, psychology" excerpt="Some reader is bound to declare that a better title for this post would be \"37 Ways That You Can Use Words Unwisely\", or \"37 Ways That Suboptimal Use…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997902.jpg" title="We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?" link="https://www.wired.com/story/nathan-wolfe-global-economic-fallout-pandemic-insurance" domain="wired.com" date="2020-07-25" tags="business, finance, health" excerpt="A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997921.webp" title="You've only added two lines - why did that take two days! ~ Matt Lacey: Cre" link="https://www.mrlacey.com/2020/07/youve-only-added-two-lines-why-did-that.html" domain="mrlacey.com" date="2020-07-23" tags="product, productivity, tech" excerpt="It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions: lines of code = effort lines of code = value all lines of c..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997888.jpg" title="Blog Posts" link="https://www.learningfromincidents.io/posts/learning-from-adaptations-to-coronavirus" domain="learningfromincidents.io" date="2020-07-22" tags="leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997906.jpg" title="All Hands on Deck. What does Slack do when Slack goes… | by Ryan Katkov | J" link="https://slack.engineering/all-hands-on-deck-91d6986c3ee" domain="slack.engineering" date="2020-07-21" tags="architecture, product, tech" excerpt="This story speaks to the process behind incident response at Slack and uses the May 12th, 2020 outage as an example. For a deeper technical review of the same outage, read Laura Nolan’s post, “A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack” Slack is a critical tool for mill" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997907.jpg" title="A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack | by Laura Nolan | Jun" link="https://slack.engineering/a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-at-slack-dfe05b485f82" domain="slack.engineering" date="2020-07-21" tags="architecture, product, tech" excerpt="This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant ou" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997895.jpg" title="Container technologies at Coinbase | by Coinbase | Jun, 2020 | The Coinbase" link="https://blog.coinbase.com/container-technologies-at-coinbase-d4ae118dcb6c" domain="blog.coinbase.com" date="2020-07-21" tags="architecture, aws, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997905.jpg" title="Accessible to some - Manuel Matuzović" link="https://www.matuzo.at/blog/accessible-to-some" domain="matuzo.at" date="2020-07-21" tags="architecture, design, tech" excerpt="An experiment that tries to help you understand how bad accessibility affects users and their daily experiences on the web." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997670.jpg" title="Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Expla" link="https://fs.blog/mental-models" domain="fs.blog" date="2020-07-21" tags="psychology" excerpt="The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997920.png" title="Staff-plus interview processes." link="https://lethain.com/staff-plus-interview-process" domain="lethain.com" date="2020-07-17" tags="career, interviews, leadership, tech" excerpt="When we talk about designing a Staff-plus engineer interview loop, the first thing to talk about is that absolutely no one is confident their Staff-plus interview loop works well. Many loops end up looking for a senior engineer who’s really fast at solving problems, which doesn’t" >}}