Stuff I did
- Hung out in Amsterdam, then returned home - back to normal life!
- Wrote up my pain scale, since a few people had asked me to share it.
- Started working on updating the code samples for the book, now that the RN API has stabilized a bit more. I’m about 1/3 done.
- Submitted a draft to Egghead for a video. Finally! It’ll be a few months before I have anything to show publicly.
- Finished my shawl! I finished knitting it on the plane and finally wove the ends in this morning. I picked this project specifically as travel-knitting. Here’s a really bad photo of it:
Linkspam
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Chrome is apparently getting a headless mode and frontend devs the world over should be rejoicing. I hope that this actually happens.
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Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants? is a short and pointed piece about the racial coding of the word “expat”.
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A peek inside the notebooks of famous authors, artists, and visionaries
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The beasts of Silicon Valley is … well. An illustrated guide to the monsters that form our industry.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda and the future of originalism is a longform piece from the Atlantic about American myth-making, the founding fathers, and the Supreme Court.
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Who makes sure hospital mergers do no harm? Almost nobody is, as usual, a bit of an alarming piece from ProPublica.
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How to build static checking systems using orders of magnitude less code is a paper on how to make a tiny static type checker! Still pretty effective, and much cheaper to port to other languages.
Reading
Vacation is a good time for book-binges.
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Book of the Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor - not really my thing, actually, though there are definitely aspects to this that I enjoyed. Prequel to Who Fears Death, which I very much enjoyed.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler - a great book for a number of reasons. I don’t expect anything else by Butler to impact me the same way that Dawn did, but that’s a ridiculously high bar. Anyway, this is really good near-future apocalyptic fiction, with a very strong focus on community, spirituality/religion, familial ties (chosen and otherwise), etc.
According to my very wishy-washy rules for choosing books, this means I’m supposed to pick up something that’s not sci-fi or fantasy next. I’m thinking maybe The Master And Margarita?