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?