Fox News is starting to slump. Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Rob Kim/Getty Images Entertainment, Thinkstock. May 9, 2017, was a momentous day in American politics—unless you were
A review of Designing Data-Intensive Applications The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppman, published by O’Reilly. Martin Kleppmann In my time exploring the
The modern world gives us such ready access to nachos and ice cream that it’s easy to forget: Humans bodies require a ridiculous and—for most of Earth’s history—improbable amount of energy to stay ali
Heard last week at devopsdays in Ghent, Belgium : “I’m just in marketing, so I don’t count.” “I’m just a student, so I don’t have anything to add.” “I’m just a developer, so I don’t really devops.” “I’m not really in the devops tribe; I’m just on the outskirts, but I’m trying.” Whenever I thought…
Published in Be Yourself · 3 min read · May 24, 2017 -- I read my first book at the age of 10 years old. It took me a month to read, it was considered a true victory, it was the Little Prince. I have
We live in a society obsessed with youth. Tech is no different from the wider culture. Startup culture in particular thrives on the idea that you’re past it by the time you’re 30. Mark Zuckerburg is 3
4 min read · May 24, 2017 -- If you’ve attended GORUCO in the last ten years, you may have noticed that the conference looks … different this year. GORUCO 2016 organizers On the surface, it’s bigger (
The rise of serverless infrastructure hugely simplified the process of deploying code into production. It's no longer necessary to worry about scaling, capacity planning or maintenance. Furthermore, s
84,913 reads Complexity and Strategy February 23rd 2017 by 84,913 reads Too Long; Didn't Read Companies Mentioned programming #software-development #complexity @terrycrowley Terry Crowley by Terry Cro
I have a theory that much recent tech development and innovation over the last decade or so has had an unspoken overarching agenda—it has been about facilitating the need for LESS human interaction. I
Debunking design Darwinism Product managers beware! In some reaches of the product development world there is a fascination with the idea that products can nearly design themselves through an iterative process of development, testing, and incremental improvement. This is what I call “design…
I don't know if this is common or not, but I have a really hard time remembering to commit my code. I know commits are supposed to be meaningful and logical chunks of work that tell a story when viewe
This is the transcript of a talk I gave at Re:publica in Berlin at the 9th of May 2017. You can find all the slides in that insanely fast GIF up there as PDFs on Github . You can also find a video rec
My father made a lot of things. When I was only three years old and almost too young to remember, he built a barrel for me to play with. He took an old cask for aging scotch, spent hours and hours scr
From gigil to wabi-sabi and tarab, there are many foreign emotion words with no English equivalent. Learning to identify and cultivate these experiences could give you a richer and more successful lif
Last November, my mother called me around 10 p.m. My boyfriend and I were in the middle of dinner — we eat late because of his work schedule — and I squinted at my phone before answering. I’d been try
How Sandberg’s grief became the catalyst for a new, emotionally honest management style at Facebook and beyond. Sheryl Sandberg’s husband died of a heart arrhythmia on a Friday evening. They’d been va
It happens all the time: we get a resume that everyone thinks is really exciting. Terrific grades. All kinds of powerful-sounding jobs. Lots of experience. Speaks seventeen languages. And saved over 1
EVEN if the new headquarters that Apple is creating in California does not prove to be “the best office building in the world”, as Steve Jobs boasted shortly before his death in 2011, it will be an as
Last week was International Women’s Day. My Twitter feed was full of people talking about diversity, how to be better allies, and how to better support Women in Tech. For many of us, IWD is complicate
By Sophie Lewis March 17, 2017 — 2.05pm , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Part of my motivatio
7 min read · Mar 16, 2017 -- People are worried about robots taking jobs. Driverless cars are around the corner. Restaurants and shops increasingly carry the option to order by touchscreen. Google’s c
Studio Ghibli I f you’re reading this magazine, you might be the kind of person who has thought about writing a screenplay or a novel. And if you’re anything like me, you might have begun that process
The United States has always been a diverse but segregated country. This has shaped American politics profoundly. Yet, throughout history, Americans have had to grapple with divergent views and opinio
I spent three months working full time to get a job. Here’s how it all wentdown. This is a long article. If you don’t like reading, here are the highlights: Yup, hiring is messy. Build empathy for you
I spent a few days a while back in a board meeting for a national astronomy organization and noticed a property of the population in that room: Out of about 40 people, about a third were women. And th
Four Questions to Ask About Health Care Reform Published in Healthcare in America · 17 min read · Feb 16, 2017 -- We rarely have to ask how car insurance or home insurance work. What is it that makes
I regret to inform you that your code has to be deployed Published in Skyliner · 5 min read · Feb 9, 2017 -- Building a web application is a young and poorly-understood activity. Toolchains for buildi
Mostly my opposition to Clojure is the JVM. That sh*t is heavy. This came up in the ZA Tech Slack team several weeks ago. While watching some Clojure talks over the holidays the speakers also noted th
Source: Michal Plachy/Shutterstock There are many reasons why some people are low in self-compassion , or treating oneself with kindness during hard times. In many cases, self-compassion doesn’t come naturally because people don’t have a lot of experience with it. But in other cases, reluctance to…
As Uber CEO Travis Kalanick quits President Donald Trump’s advisory council under pressure from drivers, competing service Juno is borrowing a page from Lyft and trying to take advantage of the domina
Which has more people? The answer may not be obvious to everyone. Reuters staff/Reuters The most frightening part of the otherwise ridiculous story about Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd size is not
My mother read to me when I was young, like mothers do. But instead of Dr. Seuss or Betsy Byars, it was Heinlein. Bradbury. Asimov. Stories of new worlds, new ideas, and possibilities for the future. It was a key ingredient in my childhood, but one I learned to keep quiet in my hometown in Oklahoma…
Everyone involved in software development seems to know what Technical Debt is. It’s a powerful metaphor. In Ward Cunningham’s original formulation , Technical Debt was the accumulated distance betwee
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