Bookmarks tagged “tech”
1112 bookmarks tagged “tech”
“This should never happen. If it does, call the developers.” - Stack Overfl
Digital Minimalism and the Radical Power of Unplugging
What Cal Newport can (and can't) teach us about digitally decluttering our lives
The Bill Gates Line – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Understanding the differences between aggregators and platforms matters for companies interacting with them and also regulators considering antitrust.
Tech’s Two Philosophies – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Google and Facebook represent one philosophy, and Microsoft and Apple represent another; tech needs both, but ultimately platforms are more important than aggregators.
Platforms (and dogfood) everywhere | Kislay Verma
How to discover opportunities for building platforms in any business problem
A Reverse Engineer’s Perspective on the Boeing 787 ‘51 days’ Airworthiness
Uncover the implications of hacking a Boeing 787 as we analyze recent FAA directives and aviation technology concepts.
How to Develop Your Talent Stack
A breakdown of how to be extraordinary by building your talent stack.
Building A Discord Bot Using Discord.js — Smashing Magazine
An introduction to building a Discord bot using the Discord.js module. The bot will share random jokes, assign or revoke user roles, and post tweets of a specific account to a Discord channel. In this article, Subha Chanda will showu you how to build a bot from scratch using Java
The pros and cons of being a software engineer at a BIG tech company - Stac
Microprocessor's Romance With Negative Integers – The How and Why of CPU Ar
By Vivek Agrawal One of the first things we learn about computers is that they only understand 0s and 1s, or bits. We humans, on the other hand, communicate numbers via the decimal system. This system uses digits from 0 to 9 along with plus and minu...
I followed my dreams and got demoted to software developer - Stack Overflow
Choosing Java instead of C for low-latency systems - Stack Overflow Blog
E-mail Is Making Us Miserable | The New Yorker
Cal Newport writes about the history of e-mail as a form of mass communication, and the ways in which it has proved an ineffective tool both for our working and personal lives—an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “A World Without Email.”
Looking back on Software Development in 2020 and forward to 2021 - Scott Ha
I think we can all agree 2020 sucked. Hopefully 2021 will be better. I've been ...
Performance Improvements in .NET 7 - .NET Blog
.NET 7 is fast. Really fast. This post deep-dives into hundreds of performance improvements that contributed to that reality.
Build your own React
We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…
Software Engineering is different from Programming | by Samer Buna | EdgeCo
Some people don’t like the term Software Engineer because of the engineering metaphor. This article is not about that term. If you don’t like it you can substitute it with Software Author, Software…
A Teenager’s View on Social Media | by Andrew Watts | Backchannel | Medium
I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media. However, I have yet to see a teenager…
Kernels 101 – Let’s write a Kernel - Arjun Sreedharan
Hello World, Let us write a simple kernel which could be loaded with the GRUB bootloader on an x86 system. This kernel will display a message on the screen and then hang. How does an x86 machine...
The Great Works of Software | by Paul Ford | The Message | Medium
Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed? Canons emerge over time, as certain…
