Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #491

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Issue #491 // February 14, 2020 // View in your browser

Happy Valentine's Day! Speaking of love, we love our sponsors - big thanks to BugHerd for making this issue possible. kale

#Favorites


BugHerd: Get great visual feedback & bug reports, even from non-technical folk
//datadog sponsored

Gears
//ciechanow comments

Ultimate Electronics
//ultimateelectronicsbook comments

I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca
//twitter comments

Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain
//stamen comments

95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
//danluu comments

I've screwed up plenty of things too
//rachelbythebay comments

Setting Up Your Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work
//mattstauffer comments

Costco Capitalism
//bryanlehrer comments

How to grip a pen?
//mlu comments

One Hundred Ideas for Computing
//github comments

Tools you’d miss if you left a company
//rachelbythebay comments

Combinatris: Tetris with SKI Combinators
//rave comments

#Ask HN


Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?

What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

#Show HN


GitHub CLI is now in beta //github comments

Burnoutindex.org //burnoutindex comments

Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux //github comments

All about Birds //allaboutbirds comments

OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android //f-droid comments

#Code


Sh!t – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell //sr.ht comments

Python dicts are now ordered //softwaremaniacs comments

Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine //piqnt comments

Performant Front-End Architecture //debugbear comments

Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications //mint-lang comments

Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation //gitlab comments

Actix – Actor Framework for Rust //github comments

#Data


CS246: Mining Massive Data Sets //stanford comments

Is a Dataframe Just a Table? [pdf] //plateau-workshop comments

HiPlot: High-dimensional interactive plots made easy //facebook comments

#Design


Where are all the animated SVGs? //getmotion comments

Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database //openculture comments

Bizcat: An 8x16 Bitmap Font //lag comments

#Learn


Li Wenliang //wikipedia comments

Frankenstein Veto //wikipedia comments

Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds //sciencemag comments

Stepping Feet Illusion //wikipedia comments

#Books


Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects? //ycombinator

Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece //openculture comments

My Book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang //packtpub comments

We need a book about naming //namingthings comments

Published my first novel, Blue Screen, how a young Linux hacker saves the world //amazon comments

#Watching


Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra //youtube comments

Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement //youtube comments

#Working


Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study //inc comments

The 2020 State of Remote Work //buffer comments

Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings //economist comments

#Fun


“We already store data. In a database. It works well” //twitter comments

Rotary Cellphone //justine-haupt comments

Space Frigates //spacefrigates comments

Visual 6502 in JavaScript //visual6502 comments

Single div Sierpinski triangle //yuanchuan comments

In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles //outsideonline comments

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Saturday, March 14, 2020

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. //Brian Kernighan

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Saturday, March 14, 2020

Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway. //Jason Fried hackernewsletter Issue #

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Saturday, March 14, 2020

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. //Peter Drucker hackernewsletter Issue #494 // March 06, 2020 // View in your browser Are you putting on a virtual

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