Silicon Links

I’ve taken to using these weekly link posts (the only posts I’ve actually continued making since Budapest) as a mini-recap of my own week. The way I see it, if you want the good stuff you’ve gotta read the boring stuff. So this week Andy visited from SF, which was a good chance to catch up, eat some meat and do some dev. And now for the links.

Hammerspoon – Awesome OSX automation tool.

Tufte CSS – Beautiful.

The Post-Mac Interface – Interesting.

Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+ – Disappointing.

How baseball’s tech team built the future of television
Scale = cool.

servant-app/JAWS – AWS without EC2. Not sure on the performance, but great for things that need to scale.

Let’s Build A Web Server – From the basics up.

Convox – On the opposite end of the spectrum, from the app down.

Why debugging is all about understanding – It’s gonna break, now fix it.

ssh whoami.filippo.io – Great example of just how much info we broadcast.

How does Foursquare’s presence system work? – Very rarely is something a “just check against a DB” type application.

Improving Facebook’s performance on Android with FlatBuffers – I could envisage a form of JSON with this data encoded in a block up front. Best of both worlds?

  • 8 aug 09:19