I think most programmers spend the first 5 years of their career mastering complexity, and the rest of their lives learning simplicity. //Buzz Andersen

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Catching up on two weeks of good reads so you better grab another cup of coffee. Enjoy! –kale

#Favorites

Datadog provides dashboarding, alerting, app monitoring, and log management in one tightly integrated monitoring platform so you can get end-to-end visibility. Try it free
//datadog sponsored

The End of the Redis Adventure
//antirez comments→

1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
//lucaiaconistewart comments→

De-escalating social media conflict
//nickpunt comments→

Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
//mapbox comments→

Finishing a side project
//hugozap comments→

Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
//stevebenjamins comments→

I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood
//balena comments→

The saddest “Just Ship It” story
//kitze comments→

Must ride mule to and from work location
//deepsouthventures comments→

24a2: An ultra-minimalist game engine
//github comments→

From context collapse to content collapse
//roughtype comments→

The Slack Social Network
//stratechery comments→

#Ask HN

What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

How to improve my abstract thinking?

#Show HN

Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing //zettlr comments→

Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub //github comments→

Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper //wolfgangfaust comments→

Linear – A fast issue tracker //linear comments→

Runnaroo – A new search engine //runnaroo comments→

Keep Your Stuff, for Life //perkeep comments→

Megadesk //tindie comments→

Debubble //debubble comments→

#Code

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner //daedtech comments→

A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack //slack comments→

Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns //riccardoscalco comments→

Hyperapp – A tiny framework for building web interfaces //hyperapp comments→

Mastering Jq: Part 1 //substack comments→

#Design

New Stuff //thefarside comments→

USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes //bennettfeely comments→

The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design //applypixels comments→

Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ logo, has died //nytimes comments→

The Faces of Microsoft //typemag comments→

#Learn

Lights and Shadows //ciechanow comments→

Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations //github comments→

Göbekli Tepe //wikipedia comments→

A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska //atlasobscura comments→

#Books

Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff //charlieharrington comments→

Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager? //ycombinator

Coding Career Handbook //learninpublic comments→

Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography //cryptologie comments→

The BEAM Book //stenmans comments→

Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers //aiprobook comments→

Putin's People – a groundbreaking study that follows the money //theguardian comments→

#Watching

Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit //youtube comments→

Not a Wheelchair //youtube comments→

Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours //youtube comments→

#Working

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers //eff comments→

Full Employment //locusmag comments→

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Startup News

Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal //bloomberg comments→

Google Acquires North //blog comments→

#Fun

Websites that look like desktop GUIs //simone comments→

Windows98 Running in the Browser //copy comments→

I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua //github comments→

Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor //anfractuosity comments→

Cronk: Long-lost beverage resurrected after 120 years //theguardian comments→

Walking Dream – single-player adventure game for the Oculus Quest //walkingdre comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Abstract Wikipedia //wikimedia comments→

Apple Lightning //github comments→

SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages //sheetui comments→

Dynamic linking //drewdevault comments→

How the 2021 Ford F-150's onboard generator works //roadandtrack comments→

Xbox Architecture //copetti comments→

QuickBasic64: Basic for the Modern Era //qb64 comments→

Identity Beyond Usernames //lord comments→

Missing Structure in Technical Discussions //github comments→

Formula 1 2020: The secret aerodynamicist – are capes the key? //bbc comments→

Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you chase //substack comments→

The caretakers of Sealand, the most stubborn micronation //atlasobscura comments→

A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy //bloomberg comments→

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