Radical UX starts our day with a look at nine nasty UX truths. These are some excellent pieces of advice, with my favorite being “color is meaningless”. Color can be used to differentiate ideas in a UI, but overall it does seem like nobody cares otherwise. At Ayende @ Rahien, we continue the database internals… Read More Geek Reading July 12, 2016 #1146
Leading the day we have another security issue, this time with the ImageMagick library. Some details can be found at the ImageTragick site. LuanchDarkly gives us an interesting post on feature flags mitigating risk in database migration. At Requests for Startups, we get getting started guide for deep learning. At Count Bayesie, we get an… Read More Geek Reading May 5, 2016 #1099
I haven’t highlighted security issues in the past few days, so clearly we were due. First, Troy Hunt has an interesting post on how your personal data is passed around when using “free” services. Mattias Geniar reports on a few remote code execution issues for Git. Definitely read the post to get into the details.… Read More Geek Reading March 17, 2016 #1065
Bryan Edds starts our day with his post about the stress and depression that is rampant in the software industry. This is a topic that is important to me because I have seen the effects in both myself and others over my 20+ year career. If you are one of those people having difficulties, you… Read More Geek Reading February 23, 2016 #1048
Today we start with a surprise announcement that Parse is shutting down at the end of this year. This sounds fairly odd given the popularity of the product and the potential increase in developer attention that Facebook gets. I am sure many developers are hoping that the product is just being integrated into some Facebook… Read More Geek Reading January 29, 2016
There are a lot of good articles today, so set aside some time for reading. Leading the day we have TechCrunch reporting on the Docker acquisition of Unikernel Systems. It will be interesting to see how Docker uses the technology. Kaggle introduced Kaggle Datasets, so you can review and use some of the datasets from… Read More Geek Reading January 25, 2016
Some interesting news to start our day. Twitter finally seems to be moving to longer messages, possibly as big as 10k. Oracle acquired AddThis for $200M. This is interesting because it really feels outside of what Oracle has purchased in the past. Flowing Data has an excellent visualization on the cause of death over various… Read More Geek Reading January 6, 2016
Late last week, there were two comics that were just perfect. First, XKCD gives their explanation of Git. If you are just starting with Git, it will sound all too familiar. The second comic is Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, where it shows “Youth Revival Therapy”. I included this mainly because I know a bunch… Read More Geek Reading November 2, 2015
Paul Graham leads the day with hist post about writing like you talk. Paul doesn’t write too frequently, but when he does, you should probably listen. Gil Zilberfeld talks about how you can’t build an MVP if you are expecting it to make money. It is an interesting perspective on a hot current trend. On… Read More Geek Reading October 27, 2015
Krebs on Security starts our week with two security breaches. First, 15 million consumers could be affected by the Experian data breach, which is also reported by TechCrunch who talks about the T-Mobile data inclusion in the breach. The second breach is at Scottrade, which affects 4.6 million consumers. Clearly, the Experian breach is something… Read More Geek Reading October 5, 2015
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