Dance, Computer, Dance

by Ray Grasso

Links

Think of me as a web crawler with taste.

adamaig/dev-with-docker-on-ubuntu

8 November, 2016 ↬

Adam Ingram-Goble:

After fighting with Docker on OSX and the need for 2-way syncs, fsevents, etc. I developed a desire to get back to a simple(r) development on a linux based VM. This project is a jumping off point.

Parallel and Concurrent Haskell

8 November, 2016 ↬

Bartosz Milewski:

The idea of this series was to teach enough Haskell to be able to read Simon Marlow’s book of the same title. It turned out to be both a Haskell course and a selection of topics on parallelism and concurrency. There should be something interesting for both total beginners and experts.

These videos contain some good introductory material to Haskell and great coverage of monads and the IO monad in particular1.

Milewski also has a video series on Category Theory which I’ve yet to watch.

  1. Skip to the 5-1/2 and 6-1/2 videos for the monad stuff. ↩

Locality of reference

6 November, 2016 ↬

Temporal and spatial locality have a significant bearing on how we operate.

Linux Performance

24 October, 2016 ↬

Excellent list of tools for diagnosing performance issues on Linux.

Programming Type Systems

27 August, 2016 ↬

Gary Bernhardt:

There’s a clear trend toward more powerful systems over time, especially when judging by language popularity rather than languages simply existing.

The Thick Terminal

27 August, 2016 ↬

Evadne Wu:

I still firmly hold the belief that iOS applications are either loss leaders or loss generators, that iOS devices themselves are thick terminals, and that a proper iOS execution strategy must be backed with a useful service either involving real world consequences (i.e. get a ride or get groceries delivered), or a wider cross-platform strategy (i.e. build your document on one platform, revise on another).

Event-based Architecture at Airtime

27 August, 2016 ↬

Nathan Peck:

Airtime uses AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) and AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) to power the pub/sub event backbone that connects producer services to consumer services.

A loosely-coupled, event-based architecture based on AWS services.

React Patterns

26 August, 2016 ↬

A collection of practices and patterns out in the wild.

noms

15 August, 2016 ↬

The versioned, forkable, syncable database

donnemartin/awesome-aws

9 August, 2016 ↬

A curated list of awesome Amazon Web Services (AWS) libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources.

joshbuchea/HEAD

23 June, 2016 ↬

A list of everything that could go in the <head> of your HTML document.

jb55/curlc

26 May, 2016 ↬

curl wrapper that uses chrome cookies.

An Index of Ideas

24 March, 2016 ↬

Shawn Blanc:

Your own index is something you put in the back of the book (or the front if you prefer). It’s a list of the book’s themes and topics that most resonate with you, and the pages which have the best quotes and ideas around those topics.

I’ll use an index card to do this for the ebooks I read.

Open Source Project Principles

12 February, 2016 ↬

Ryan Florence:

Rackt is a GitHub organization that was created to ensure critical open source projects in the React community receive long-term support and maintenance.

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We believe these four principles will provide a strong ecosystem of our open source projects by ensuring projects have active and enthusiastic owners and contributors.

Experiments and Projects

30 December, 2015 ↬

Jesper Louis Andersen:

I’m very fond of Erlang creator Mike Williams point: “If you don’t make experiments before starting a project, then your whole project will be an experiment”

If we instead ask about prototyping, then we need a programming language with certain traits. The team is usually small, so we need an expressive language, and we need to address the core kernel of the system in isolation, first. We don’t need a lot of interfacing to foreign systems and in general we won’t care too much if the system we build is fast. Also, we usually won’t need to operate the prototype in production, since it is simply a proof of concept.

There are more interesting points about language design in part one and two of this broad reaching interview.

Javascript Fatigue

30 December, 2015 ↬

Eric Clemmons:

At work this past quarter, we painstakingly started three new projects at work. I say “painstakingly” because every project required decisions to be made around tooling depending on the scope & needs.

Ultimately, the problem is that by choosing React (and inherently JSX), you’ve unwittingly opted into a confusing nest of build tools, boilerplate, linters, & time-sinks to deal with before you ever get to create anything.

the React ecosystem have, largely, opted for discrete modularization at the cost of terse APIs by offloading their architectural underpinnings to the user and, as a result, worsen the developer experience in aggregate.

Yep, the developer experience in Javascript at the moment is painful. The wide array of choice is crippling and the boilerplates and generators aren’t enough. I hope the following prediction from the article comes true.

2016 will likely involve a serious, focused conjoining of projects, tools, and language features to merge the best and brightest packages/tools/boilerplates into more formalized projects. — Matt Keas in State of the Union.js

The 100:10:1 Approach to Open Source

17 December, 2015 ↬

Michael Fogus:

The approach that I now use for releasing code into the wild is governed by an approach called the “100:10:1 method,” a term coined by Nick Bentley.

I think I will give this a try.