weekly reel October 17, 2021
Hi geeks, and music with Sutekh, thx James.
On Bach by Sutekh (bandcamp.com)
On the news,
- [fr] Monsieur Phi - Au nom du père.
- Safe cycling showdown - Good vs. bad city design, comparing Amsterdam to Calgary. Thx Adel.
- The Guardian on stopping fetishising overwork.
- Kottke: Fuzzy moths taking flight in super slow motion.
- SMBC: The main reason to make yeast bread.
In tech,
- Excellent introduction to optimization and low-level CPU stuff by Casey Muratori: Simple code, high performance, Follow-up #1: A simplified CPU diagram, Follow-up #2: Analysis with Godbolt Compiler Explorer and UICA . Via r/Programming.
- Handmade podcast #14: Examining CS education, with Demetri Spanos. Great interview with nuanced takes from Spanos. And reminded me about the parable of the Blind men and an elephant.
- Drew DeVault: Software developers have stopped caring about reliability.
- vlogbrothers has many things to say about Facebook.
- jwz: How much more terrifying could the murderbots be? Waymo.
- Ars: Robert Willis, hacker who built a pro-Trump fake news empire, unmasks himself, thx Heinz.
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