Bookmarks from 2022
220 bookmarks from 2022
chreke's blog - Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming
Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.
12 Factor App Revisited
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since evolved, and what we can learn from them today and how they changed the status quo of yesteryear.
Taming Names in Software Development - Simple Thread
Good names What is a name? A name is a label, a handle, a pointer in your brain’s memory. A complex idea neatly encapsulated. A name lets you refer to “the economy” , or “dogfooding” mid-sentence without needing a three-paragraph essay to explain the term. If you think of softwar
Does WWW still belong in URLs? | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to
Breaking through innovation fatigue | Perspectives
This Perspectives issue explores how leaders can balance their innovation initiatives with day-to-day operation priorities. Read now.
Customer Experience | Perspectives
Customer experience: Measuring the real returns on surprise and delight
Effective Engineering Practices | Perspectives
In this issue of Perspectives, Thoughtworks experts explain how business leaders can reprioritize their development portfolios and enhance engineering effectiveness to maintain a competitive edge and generate value, while minimizing waste and keeping spending in check.
Change management: Why it matters, and how to make it stick
This Perspectives explores the approaches that help leaders to achieve the elusive goal of making change stick.
Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer | Quanta Magazine
The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information, even as the work’s interpretation remains disputed.
Does Money Buy Happiness?
In most of the world, yes. In the United States, not any more.
High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being | PNAS
Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individua...
How Wanting Less Leads to Satisfaction - The Atlantic
The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff.
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be? | The New Yorker
Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are. Joshua Rothman on “The Origins of You,” by Richie Poulton, Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, and Terrie E. Moffitt; and “Life Is Hard,” by Kieran Setiya.
Do my friends hate me? The pandemic is making people doubt friendships. - T
For many women, friendship insecurity has gotten worse, especially during the colder months.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
What’s so great about functional programming anyway?
To hear some people talk about functional programming, you’d think they’d joined some kind of cult. They prattle on about how it’s changed the way they think about code. They’ll extol the benefits of purity, at length. And proclaim that they are now able to “reason about their co
