Lessons from the Use of Personal Knowledge Questions at Google https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/03/14/secrets-lies-and-account-recovery-lessons-from-the-use-of-personal-knowledge-questions-at-google/ (ineffective and surprisingly hard to remember)
miniblog.
Exciting to see Docker support multiple architectures! Particularly helpful for the many testing platforms that are Docker based. https://twitter.com/estesp/status/907857746900463616
Before C++, I never thought about the cost of values carrying their type. C++ gives you the choice with optional Run-Time Type Information.
Excellent article on the tradeoffs static typing https://blog.merovius.de/2017/09/12/diminishing-returns-of-static-typing.html (nuances that are sometimes lost in the blogosphere)
A nice example of the remarkable modularity in the npm ecosystem: Yarn just split out its lockfile parser https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/pull/4114
This is nifty: yarn will resolve conflicts in lockfiles automatically! https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/pull/3544 (novel? I haven't seen other tools do this)
Coverage is a useful tool, but total number of test cases is a better predictor of test effectiveness! https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/10/21/coverage-is-not-strongly-correlated-with-test-suite-effectiveness/
Coming from Twitter, a major difference with the Tooterati¹ is that your server matters. You're more easily discovered by users on the same instance.
It's an interesting, different group dynamic. There's more scope for self-organisation and group identities.
¹ This should totally be a word. People use Twitterati with a straight face.
I've seen both #foo and !foo used on Mastodon. How do they differ?
"So the #1 best rule [for going viral] is: Have overwhelmingly awesome content. So good that people intrinsically want to spread the word."
https://blog.asmartbear.com/darwinian-explanation-and-advice-for-going-viral.html
From: Darwinian explanation and advice for “Going Viral”
Mastodon is rapidly maturing as a microblog platform! "Mastodon and the W3C – Hacker Noon"
https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422
Especially impressive because evolving distributed protocols is difficult!
Mastodon is rapidly maturing as a microblog platform! https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 (impressive because evolving distributed systems is hard!)
Using chatbots against voicespam: analyzing Lenny’s effectiveness https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/28/using-chatbots-against-voicespam-analyzing-lennys-effectiveness/ (&what makes a convincing human from a recording!)
Here's all the ways pitest will mutate your code to verify tests: https://pitest.org/quickstart/mutators/
Thought-provoking article: scale OS software by corporate backing, or monetise PR review, as merging PR labour is scarce! https://twitter.com/nayafia/status/906953748143935489
Interesting SO topic on writing a good hash function for ints: https://stackoverflow.com/q/664014/509706 (tricky to handle ints divisible by a common factor)
Shower thought: are tuples less useful in PLs where the type system encodes the length of lists?
Interesting library for infix syntax in Common Lisp: https://github.com/rigetticomputing/cmu-infix (ironically I find it tricky to read,but I blame unfamiliarity)
Comment sorting is hard. Using points, content deteriorates as you approach the bottom. When should you stop reading?
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