diff --git a/content/blog/2024-09-29-what-ive-been-reading.md b/content/blog/2024-09-29-what-ive-been-reading.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d95859c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024-09-29-what-ive-been-reading.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Title: What I've been reading +Date: 2024-09-29 + +- [What does it really mean to learn?](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-does-it-really-mean-to-learn) +- [Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more rigorously than knowledge workers do](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zBmSSpM1WfFDehxNCBcqSZp?stackedNotes=zMX9Lfuz8sGfDUivWZcyWT) +- [Why I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker](https://hynek.me/articles/docker-virtualenv/) +- [Differing Values In A Team Are Costly](https://rtpg.co/2024/08/31/cost-of-a-values-gap/) +- [The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer](https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-impossibility-of-making-an-elite) +- [Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?](https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/asynchronous-io-the-next-billion-dollar-mistake/) +- [Interesting community discussion](https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/113091418140504394) around UV python package manager ([via](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/8/uv-under-discussion-on-mastodon/#atom-everything)) +- [AI Adoption](https://connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/08/18/ai-adoption) +- [Service Patterns: Part 1 - History, Opportunity and Challenges](https://medium.com/share-reuse/service-patterns-part-1-history-opportunity-and-challenges-bfd3989a845a) +- [Feeld dating app – Your nudes and data were publicly available](https://fortbridge.co.uk/research/feeld-dating-app-nudes-data-publicly-available/). A pretty mad vulnerability disclosure story. +- [My Eulogy for the Open Web and Old Google](https://cdibona.substack.com/p/my-eulogy-for-the-open-web-and-old) +- [NHS cannot embrace AI until its basic IT systems are up to scratch](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/15/nhs-cannot-embrace-ai-until-its-basic-it-systems-are-up-to-scratch). This goes for such much public sector "transformation" talk. +We have to sort out the really basic stuff first before we even go near AI. +- [Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech](https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/09/14/founder-mode-hackers-and-being-bored-by-tech/) +- [Great men do wear their babies – the days of criticising a father for carrying his child are over](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/19/great-men-babies-criticising-father-carrying-slings). Top dad content. +- [We Hot-Wired the iPhone 16](https://www.ifixit.com/News/100352/we-hot-wired-the-iphone-16). Great to see Apple making improvements in their phone repairability. +- [Interesting exploration](https://kristoff.it/blog/python-training-wheels/) of the growth issues of PyPI and approaches for addressing this. ([lobste.rs discussion](https://lobste.rs/s/vqfcvb/python_package_index_should_get_rid_its)) +- [‘I’m motivated by the puzzle’: how Courtney Dauwalter became ultrarunning’s GOAT](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/25/courtney-dauwalter-ultrarunner-greatest) +- [You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE](https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/cups-cve/). Whilst you're probably not I did have to follow these steps on my Raspberry Pi 4B which was running cups-browsed. +