#Reading list
Some things that I read/learned/liked.
#Sept 2021
Raspberry Pi config for all things Internet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28577368
Jade Rubick - No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making https://www.rubick.com/tenets-for-faster-decisionmaking/
Seed – A Rust front-end framework for creating fast and reliable web apps [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28567714
Headscale: Open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28572013
Oso | Batteries-Included Authorization [auth] https://www.osohq.com//
Show HN: Replay - Time Travel Debugger [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539247
Tom Blomfield — How to raise investment https://tomblomfield.com/post/662033487432466432/how-to-raise-investment
OpenRA: Red Alert, Command and Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era [game] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28511076
High Performance Organizations Reading List https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515579
Design Principles: An Open Source Collection [design] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28494225
Awesome macOS open source applications [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28498797
Htmlq: like jq, but for html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441880
Gobang – Cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28489165
POW Captcha: a lightweight, self-hosted proof-of-work captcha https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486918
A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn [space, astronomy] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486647
Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28481913
How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28462495
MangaDex infrastructure overview [scale] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28440742
Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435613
The Quiet World BY JEFFREY MCDANIEL [poem, writing] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/the-quiet-world
Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425379
Git-cliff: generate changelog files from the Git history [release notes] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28423843
Pollen – A library of CSS variables inspired by TailwindCSS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28418350
How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players [scale] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28401224
How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose) [management, team] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28411712
SQLite-TUI: A TUI for viewing SQLite databases, written in Go [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28408682
The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence [intelligence, funghi] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28406931
O.mg Cable [security] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394035
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28376686
ListMonk – High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager [tools, mail] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389346
Building a serverless email delivery service on AWS [tools, mail] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28378453
Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28376797
The art of not taking things personally [ego] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369727
TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA&feature=youtu.be
Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28370662
#Aug 2021
PGSpider: High-Performance SQL Cluster Engine for distributed big data [postgres, extension] https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgspider-extention-is-newly-released-2289/
Show HN: Typed Postgres CRUD Queries https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326117
Better Coordination, or Better Software? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28288228
The Chief People Officer as PM: Rethinking Systems and Tools https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28308970
The Clickbaitification of Netflix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28291338
GitHub Issues-only project management - placemark.io https://blog.placemark.io/2021/07/19/issues-only-management.html
Patterns in Confusing Explanations [docs] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28254630
Doing a Job - The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm
Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28238762
Overcoming Bias : What is ‘Elite Overproduction’? https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/08/what-is-elite-overproduction.html
Homa, a transport protocol to replace TCP for low-latency RPC in data centers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204808
Measuring Developer Relations https://swyx.notion.site/Measuring-Developer-Relations-1627424dc6044e7189f527beb6f1d8f9
Individual level https://en.shortcogs.com/individual-level
In Praise of PostgreSQL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075204
Pg auto failover [postgres, ha, tools] https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover
E.W.Dijkstra Archive [programming, people] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/
How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design [timescale] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075774
#July 2021
Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037317
Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012829
Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir at X-Plane https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27998323
Show HN: Leaf – Create interactive coding tutorials [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27896397
Apache Heron: A realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819648
Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27809279
Rules of Storytelling for Fundraising https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27768933
SQL Join Types Explained in Visuals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27760154
Write a time-series database engine from scratch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27730854
#June 2021
A Philosophy of Software Design (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27686818
v0.16 - Gleam compiles to JavaScript! – Gleam https://gleam.run/news/v0.16-gleam-compiles-to-javascript/
Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27473788
Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424496
The startup behind Todoist has a novel new vacation policy https://qz.com/work/1402886/the-startup-behind-todoist-has-a-novel-new-vacation-policy/
PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on PostgreSQL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27330342
#May 2021
Car talk: Don't just contribute to open source, participate! [video, open source] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU_ISkNml-A&feature=youtu.be
useStateMachine: A ½kb state machine hook for React [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27231269
Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
#April 2021
Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26899066
FFmpeg 4.4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746537
Show HN: Xplr – A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer [tools] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26708089
Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26659553
#March 2021
Permission.site [auth, webauthn] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26588480
Show HN: WebAssembly and ffmpeg = Quick clip, overlay, resize and GIF-ize videos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26580333
SQLite is not a toy database https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26580614
Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by over 80% in beef steers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540737
Differential Datalog [realtime, stream, materialize] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26514456
CodeTour: VS Code extension to record and play guided walkthroughs of codebases https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488610
The Difficulties of SAML Single Logout [auth] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26485737