www.wired.com
Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
2,603 words | 9 minutes | Sunday 8am | Favourited
It was presented to her more than two decades ago by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, in recognition of the pivotal—and altogether unexpected—role she played in shaping the digital world as we know it.
overreacted.io
Things I Don’t Know as of 2018
1,208 words | 4 minutes | Wednesday 9am | Favourited
People often assume that I know far more than I actually do. That’s not a bad problem to have and I’m not complaining. (Folks from minority groups often suffer the opposite bias despite their hard-earned credentials, and that sucks.)
blog.cloudflare.com
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Most Difficult Two Weeks
976 words | 3 minutes | Sunday 7am | Favourited
This is part 2 of a six part series based on a talk I gave in Trento, Italy. Part 1 is here. It’s always best to speak plainly and honestly about the situation you are in. Or as Matthew Prince likes to put it “Panic Early”.
www.wired.com
Meth, Murder, and Pirates: The Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
5,982 words | 21 minutes | Sunday 8am
This story is excerpted from The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal, by Evan Ratliff.
queue.acm.org
CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
5,547 words | 20 minutes | Thursday 6pm
You may be wondering, "Code review process? Isn't that obvious?" But code reviews are pervasive. Any developer is likely to be asked at any time to review someone else's code. And you can be sure your code is reviewed. For some developers, code reviews take up a portion of each day.
stratechery.com
Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play
2,738 words | 9 minutes | Thursday 5pm
More than 10 years ago we founded Spotify to give consumers something they couldn’t get — music any time, anywhere, and at the right price. Along the way, we broke the grip piracy had on our industry and restored the growth of global music through paid on-demand streaming.
stratechery.com
Box, Microsoft, and the Next Enterprise Platform
1,222 words | 4 minutes | Thursday 6pm
Let’s get one thing out of the way: there is nothing about Box’s S-1 filing that suggests tech is in a bubble. Indeed, the fact Aaron Levie and company are not yet profitable is a good thing. There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok.
blog.cloudflare.com
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 1: How I came to work here
978 words | 3 minutes | Sunday 7am
This is the text I prepared for a talk at Speck&Tech in Trento, Italy. I thought it might make a good blog post. Because it is 6,000 words I've split it into six separate posts. I’ve worked at Cloudflare for more than seven years. Cloudflare itself is more than eight years old.
stratechery.com
Google Earnings, Other Bets Compensation, 30% and Smartphone Competition
580 words | 2 minutes | Wednesday 9am
Stratechery.com is supported by subscriptions to the Daily Update. The Daily Update consists of substantial analysis of the news of the day (~1800 words) delivered via three daily emails in addition to the free weekly article (four total articles per week).
www.hanselman.com
Brainstorming - Creating a small single self-contained executable out of a .NET Core application
492 words | 1 minute | Thursday 6pm
I've been using ILMerge and various hacks to merge/squish executables together for well over 12 years. The .NET community has long toyed with the idea of a single self-contained EXE that would "just work." No need to copy a folder, no need to install anything. Just a single EXE.