Ronan Jouchet

ronj

Hi I'm Ronan Jouchet. I make music, runswimcycle a lot, and craft software for fun (GitHub, HN, toolbox) & profit (LinkedIn, English resume, CV français). I live in Montréal, Québec. Email me.

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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.
Comments and feedback welcome @ronjouch or by email.

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