Reading List
- Year(Decade) of the Homelab.
Mahdi Yusuf
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1 Jan 2021
You can find audio to this post here. I’m usually not huge on sticking flag poles in the ground regarding the direction technology will take in the coming years/decades. You can already see me hedging by saying decades in the title. I believe home labs (servers for home use) will become a thing this…
- No Prize for Doing It the Hard Way (2020 Retrospective)
The struggles, failures, and financial realities of bootstrapping an indie software business in 2020.
- Rebuilding my website with NextJS, Chakra UI and Airtable
Thoughts about my new website setup
- 2020 in review
Looking back on 2020 and setting goals for the next year.
- A survey of security.txt
Go350
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1 Jan 2021
I was curious to know how many popular websites have already uploaded a security.txt file and how many followed the most recent draft. So, I wrote a small Go program to check the Alexa Top 1 million websites.
- One Year of Excalidraw
The Excalidraw Team
It’s been kind of a different year, but it was the first year and pretty amazing for Excalidraw.
- Bitcoin is a disaster.
Ray Dillinger
It is my opinion that Bitcoin is a failure. Worse than that, it's a disaster. It doesn't scale, except by becoming the very thing it was supposed to replace.
- Talk Less, Listen More - The Reformed Broker
Joshua M Brown
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30 Dec 2020
I spent a whole bunch of time this fall and winter taking calls from young financial advisors. I try to schedule this stuff on Friday mornings when things are a little quieter for me. They DM me or email me and I just say yes. I have 15 minutes for any kid reading my stuff...
- The Big Little Guide to Message Queues
A guide to the fundamental concepts that underlie message queues, and how they apply to popular queueing systems available today.
- The Design of the Roland Juno oscillators
Thea Flowers
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31 Dec 2020
A comprehensive deep dive into the design of Roland’s legendary DCO
- 2020 Year in Review
Jack Ellis
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23 Dec 2020
Here’s my first ever year in review. It’s a deep dive into how 2020 was for me and it wasn’t easy to write.
- Leading someone with more years of experience than my age
Daniel Rojas
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27 Dec 2020
It all started at my first job. I’ve been around 6 months in the company and was happy getting used to the ropes of my current job. In those 6 months, I quickly pushed to prod (without even k…
- Building a successful company is fucking hard
Navigating my first 10 years of full-time entrepreneurship from dozens in failures to millions in revenue.
- The Urgent vs. the Important
Preslav Rachev
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29 Dec 2020
I have recently bought an e-book by a Gumroad author [https://gumroad.com/dellannaluca] named Luca Dellana [https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca]. I have to admit I did it mainly to see how successful authors on Gumroad package their offerings. I was initially skeptical about the book, dismissing it as …
- Banking on Status
Julian Lehr
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12 Dec 2020
How Neobanks Should Monetize Status Signaling.