Yes, you get a double dose of geek reading today, thanks to my terrible short term memory. In the “other stuff” category, we have two very interesting posts. First, Dilbert (yes, the comic) has an excellent way to start your day. Anyone who writes typical software will know how that feels. Next, TechCrunch reports on… Read More Geek Reading October 16, 2015
Facebook leads the day with their announcement of instant articles and how developers can integrate their CMS with it. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the paralysis of choice. if you read it with your customers and consumers in mind, you may find that you make things too difficult for them. Google Project Zero… Read More Geek Reading September 24, 2015
Welcome back from the weekend! Leading today we have First Round Review giving us some simple rules to launch your product. Johanna Rothman has part 3 of a series of posts about resource efficiency vs flow efficiency. As always, Johanna’s posts are always worth reading. By now you have probably already heard about the 16… Read More Geek Reading September 21, 2015
Leading today is the continuing saga on Krebs on Security about the skimmers in Mexico. It really is an interesting read and shows how easy it is to compromise ATMs. In another security story, arstechnica reports on a set of Cisco routers infected by a stealthy backdoor. Lastly, we have The Awl talking about ad… Read More Geek Reading September 16, 2015
Today we start with some good security articles. First, Reuters reports on US researchers showing how computers can be hijacked to send data using sound waves. Outside of the security implications, this is really cool stuff. The BBC has a good article on some spyware demo that shows how spooks hack mobile phones. This is… Read More Geek Reading August 6, 2015
It was a fairly slow news day yesterday. So, today we lead off with a post on the Chromium blog, announced the integration of the physical web into Chrome for iOS. Algorithmia talks about mining Product Hunt and detecting voting rings. Collin Mulliner talks about how the Hacking Team used open source software that he… Read More Geek Reading July 23, 2015
The big news of the day is not tech related, but on Friday the Supreme Court ruled that gay couples have a right to marry. WordPress celebrates its 10th year of service. Obviously, this is important because it powers so many websites and blogs. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions… Read More Geek Reading June 29, 2015
We have another good mix of articles for today. Edmund Kirwan talks about structural simplicity. This is important as it helps with understanding and maintenance of your codebase. Mozilla Hacks continues their series of articles on ES6, with this one about Collections. On Flowing Data, there is a cool visualization hack using Microsoft Excel to… Read More Geek Reading June 23, 2015
Leading off today is an interesting story from Cardiff University about a potential “highly effective” treatment for asthma. This is a big deal because both my daughter and myself struggle with it, so you get to read some interesting science. Another link blog milestone today, the Morning Dew posted it’s 2000th Dew Drop! It is… Read More Geek Reading April 27, 2015
After a slight delay we finally get to the third part of the programming language job trends. Today we review Erlang, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Clojure. If you do not see some of the more popular languages, take a look at Part 1 and Part 2. Lisp is included almost as a baseline, because it has had sustained usage for… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 3 – August 2014
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