We start our day with VentureBeat reporting on a new CDN available from Google. It is not huge news, but it is an interesting development for people building out scalable sites. Alvaro Videla has an excellent post on what people talk about when they are talking about distributed systems. Distributed systems are generally, highly complex… Read More Geek Reading December 11, 2015
Wired leads the day with their story on who they think the creator of Bitcoin is. We will see if this path is true. The rest of our news is dominated by the CMS world. WordPress released v4.4, codenamed “Clifford”. WordPress also released an app for Windows. A group of Microsoft developers have saved Windows… Read More Geek Reading December 10, 2015
Amazon leads the day with their move to bundle Showtime and Starz with Amazon Prime. Prime is slowly becoming a must-have option. Mozilla releases Focus for Firefox, their content blocking option for the open web. Job Tips For Geeks shows us some trends in the recruiting space based on various languages. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading December 9, 2015
Ernie Miller starts our day with a rant on “market rate” for programmers. Basically, he pokes holes in the Buffer salary information, not from the openness perspective, but concerns about employee value and other issues. Kent Beck also has a post about “pricing” programmers, more from the idea that he does not know what is… Read More Geek Reading December 8, 2015
Today we have a number of good articles in various groups, so make sure you take a look at everything. The Amplitude Blog talks about changing employee equity and generally how to make it better for the employees who are not founders. On Publishing Silicon they have an interesting read on the fall and rise… Read More Geek Reading December 7, 2015
Google leads the day with their post about working towards a more accessible world. On The Macro, they talk about a different idea on how to split equity among co-founders. The basic idea is to split it equally because once the business really starts (launch or outside funding), nothing else really matters. On DZone, we… Read More Geek Reading December 4, 2015
Mozilla starts our day with a big post on privacy and protecting its users. There is not much in terms of new information, but it is good to see Mozilla take a stand. On Coding VC they talk about the 100-hour rule, as a different option than the 10000-hour rule. The reasoning is that you… Read More Geek Reading December 3, 2015
We focus on personal productivity to start our day. On the Todoist blog, my favorite productivity tool, they have the “ultimate” guide to personal productivity methods. The guide lists the most popular methods around and provides some good highlights for each. As we head into the new year, this is a good post to review… Read More Geek Reading December 2, 2015
Leading today we have a post on Psy-Q’s Braindump about how we need to save Mozilla in order to defend the free web. I am not sure if I agree with the premise that Chrome and its engine are taking over the web, especially given the size of Facebook and its ecosystem, but it is… Read More Geek Reading December 1, 2015
