If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine. //Jim Barksdale

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Hello! Close down your Zoom - a ton of great (and fun) reads this week for you to dive into. Related, I'm exploring the idea of a daily version (in additional to this one) because there is a lot I can't fit into one issue a week. Interested? –kale

#Favorites

Unified observability and monitoring across Dev and Ops in a single platform. Start a free Datadog trial
//datadog sponsored

Click
//clickclickclick comments→

Suez canal blocked by a massive ship and Is that ship still stuck?
//twitter comments / comments→

Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe
//twitter comments→

Don't End the Week with Nothing
//kalzumeus comments→

Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File on Disk
//brianschrader comments→

Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
//crystal-lang comments→

Video Game in a Font – Fontemon, a Pokemon Parody
//coderelay comments→

The Invention of a New Pasta Shape
//kottke comments→

DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in virtual dogfights
//thedrive comments→

Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone
//alvarez comments→

#Ask HN

What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

How to build empathy?

What (side-)project are you working on?

#Show HN

Nyxt Browser //atlas comments→

Gnome 40 //gnome comments→

I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser //vscode comments→

Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar //xbarapp comments→

Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode //dendron comments→

Regular expression compilation visualized //compiler comments→

Papercups – Open-source alternative to Intercom //papercups comments→

#Code

CodeTour: Record guided “brown bag” intros for your codebases //github comments→

What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App //ttias comments→

I finally escaped Node //acco comments→

Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp //stevelosh comments→

Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform //dropbox comments→

#Data

Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION //foxhound comments→

Differential Datalog //github comments→

How to create a 1M record table with a single query //antonz comments→

Dataflowr – Deep Learning DIY //github comments→

Hutter Prize //wikipedia comments→

#Design

Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k //timmyomahony comments→

Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore //lwgmnz comments→

The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene //juxtapoz comments→

In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu //css-tricks comments→

#Learn

America’s bald eagle population continues to soar //fws comments→

Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years //phys comments→

Letterlocking //wikipedia comments→

Loopy Pipe Network Converts back-and-forth flow into one-way flow //aps comments→

Why Do We Call These “DuPont” Connectors? //mattmillman comments→

#Books

I wrote a book about Go //practical-go-lessons comments→

How to Design Programs //htdp comments→

Data Science in Julia for Hackers //datasciencejuliahackers comments→

Claude Shannon: The Mathematical Theory of Cryptography //evervault comments→

Douglas Adams' note to self reveals author found writing torture //theguardian comments→

Book Review: Antifragile //substack comments→

I wrote a book about Elasticsearch //elasticsearchbook comments→

Humble Book Bundle: Learn You More Code by No Starch Press //humblebundle comments→

#Watching

Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano //ruv comments→

'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film //fieldofvision comments→

This Music Video Does Not Exist //thismusicvideodoesnotexist comments→

#Working

All my career rejections //utk comments→

Senior Engineers Build Consensus //hyperbo comments→

Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL //bofh comments→

#Startup News

SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme //sfgate comments→

Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B //bloomberg comments→

Docker Raises $23M //docker comments→

Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own //gizmodo comments→

#Fun

Cookie Consent Speed Running Game //cookieconsentspeed comments→

Groove Pizza //musedlab comments→

The Infinite Drum Machine //withgoogle comments→

System Shock //filfre comments→

Daves Old Computers – Robotic DVD Loader //classiccmp comments→

Dance Tonite //tonite comments→

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