Double Shot #2318
- TypeScript and Babel, a match made in heaven - Looks like we're safely past the phase of these two tools not playing nicely with each other.
- slim - "slim will build a micro-vm from a Dockerfile. Slim works by building and extracting a rootfs from a Dockerfile, and then merging that filesystem with a small minimal kernel that runs in RAM."
- Pock - Display your MacOS dock on the TouchBar. I may try it. Then again I may just put masking tape over the freaking thing.
- Introducing Warp: Fixing Mobile Internet Performance and Security - Cloudflare is getting into the VPN business.
- Capybara::HeadlessChrome - "A nice and tidy Capybara driver for headless Chrome. Even supports file downloads!"
- OKRs Aren't Going to Fix Your Communication Issues - I'd go further: if you're just playing "OKR Theater" you're going to make things worse.
- A Roadmap for Eliminating Patents in Open Source - Technical discussion of whether the doctrine of "patent exhaustion" might simplify the legal landscape.
- The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin - "The bottom line is more simple: are you disciplined enough to make it happen or not?" Lots of good actionable tips here as well.
- Lessons learned from jerks in the Internet - How one site discovered and dealt with a denial of service attack.
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL - "In fact, SQL is the most successful 4th generation language."
- Setting boundaries at your job as a programmer - "If you don’t enforce that boundary between work and non-work, you are sending the message that your time doesn’t belong to you."