Source: 🎈 Public Lab: WebJack
Companies Can Do Better Than Laying Off Loyal Workers
In an economic downturn, companies should view layoffs as a last resort rather than the go-to, quick-fix solution.
Source: Companies Can Do Better Than Laying Off Loyal Workers
It’s probably time to stop recommending Clean Code @ Things Of Interest
No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
How we work at Gumroad
the power of the stars can be harnessed on Earth.
The technology is far from ready to turn into viable power plants – and is not about to solve the climate crisis – but scientists hailed the breakthrough as evidence that the power of the stars can be harnessed on Earth.
Source: US scientists confirm ‘major breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion | Nuclear power | The Guardian
We think best when at play
Best of all, each game doubles as a fresh lesson in how play brings out the best in human thought.
Source: A book of deep, easy-to-play mathematical games (and why they matter). – Math with Bad Drawings
Reduce Interaction
Ironically, one of the fundamental goal of interaction designers is to reduce interaction. When we do our jobs perfectly, few people ever notice (except when comparing your solution to other products).
Source: Aza Raskin Interview on How He Pioneered the Infinite Scroll
In an ideal world all the internet is something@home.
SETI@Home is one of the very best things that happened to the internet. In an ideal world all the internet is something@home. Well, next time!
Source: One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
FrankenPHP: the modern PHP app server
FrankenPHP is a new app server for PHP apps (built on top of Caddy) and a library to embed the PHP interpreter in Go web servers.
The tedious obvious program
Sometimes, the obvious program can be tempting but tedious.
I estimate that the 4200 lines of output code could have been replaced by an interpreter of at most a few dozen lines of code and a schema [note: template] of 400 lines.
Programming Pearls, Data Structures programs, p25
Separating the data from the control will pay off handsomely.
Programming Pearls, Data Structures programs, p25