2021#05 Readings
4 minutes read | 823 words by Ruben BerenguelSweet, sweet holidays.
This past week I have been on holidays (had my birthday) and spent them fully away from a computer, so no readings. I spent them sleeping, learning to play the piano (I got a piano, a lot of new Rubik cubes and a few other things) and playing Ironlights in VR.
🍿 Care and Feeding of Catalyst Optimizer
The tricks in here are worth the watch. Very recommended.
đź‘€ glanceLanguageTool Linter - Visual Studio Marketplace
Ulysses for iOS has LanguageTool as a grammar/syntax checker backend, and I have been very happy with the results and turns out I can have it running locally to check errors in Markdown files.
The “do not be alarmed” clock
Stavros' projects are always a good read.
🍿 The art of misdirection with Apollo Robbins
I suspect I had watched this video before. There’s a very good article about Robbins I read several years ago, I suspect in The New Yorker.
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
This could have a better title, because I was close to skipping it. It is worth your 2 minutes as well if you ever create webpages.
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
A fun trip through sci-fi terms, or when they were first used in sci-fi.
Snowflake images
Not affiliated. These are awesome pictures. The resolution of the product pages is good enough for an iPhone background too. Getting a print wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.
🍿 Powering Interactive BI Analytics with Presto and Delta Lake
đź‘€ glanceHaven’t touched Presto in 3 years, I wonder if we can leverage it for faster analytics than Databricks (for some particular cases).
How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker | Info | The Guardian
The Guardian has an excellent engineering team, and not only because they use Scala.
Meet YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries
This is a very intense blue.
Cooking with ML
I want to bake this 🍪🎂 hybrid (scroll to the end, or just read the full article).
Why we chose Apache Superset as our data exploration platform - Dropbox
Superset for internal engineering use is the right amount of customizable and usable.
Quad Gods: The world-class gamers who play with their mouths
This is humbling.
Package management in Haskell
A Reddit question about having something like pip, for Haskell. As a Python developer… please, no. No, don’t. The answers are interesting to see how to use stack and/or cabal. Personally, I use a cabal file, where I list the libraries I want and then run stack init --force to make stack look for a resolver with the libraries I want and write the stack file. It gets the work done quickly.
indradb/indradb: A graph database written in Rust
For a while I have been asking people what is the Redis/SQLite of graph databases? Indra may be it. The other contender I have found is Cayley.
Increasing your luck surface area
I recommend the same formula for soft and hard skills for engineers.
The Cistercian monks invented a numbering system in the 13th century which meant that any number from 1 to 9999 could be written using a single symbol
As you can imagine, doing calculations with it would be hard. But for classification, looks excellent.
Roadmap to becoming a data engineer in 2021
A visualization. I’m not sure what I find worse: the amount of things a DE is supposed to know, or that I actually have experience on 90% of the recommended technologies. Regardless of that, it’s a ton. Also, who the hell recommends Pig and Storm in 2021? Wouldn’t touch either with a sink-shaped ham.
The Stranger Who Changed My Life: My Enemy, My Friend
This was surprisingly heartwarming. Won’t spoil it with details.
Early Illustrations of the Nervous System by Camillo Golgi and Santiago RamĂłn y Cajal
A good story to know, and accompanied by intriguing drawings.
Getting better at Linux with 10 mini-projects
With this attitude to learning, the author is going to go places and do things.
They came at night: how a Spanish-speaking cast shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugosi had gone to bed
🎥🧛🏻‍♂️🇪🇸
