IFRC Data Playbook Toolkit — The Data Playbook Beta is a recipe book or exercise book with examples, best practices, how-to’s, session plans, training materials, matrices, scenarios, and resources. The data playbook will provide resources for National Societies to develop their literacy around data, including responsible data use and data protection. The content aims to […]
Ken Thompson’s Unix Password — Somewhere around 2014 I found an /etc/passwd file in some dumps of the BSD 3 source tree, containing passwords of all the old timers such as Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian W. Kernighan, Steve Bourne, and Bill Joy. Those passwords are very amenable to modern cracking methods, but Thompson’s was
Yellowbrick — Open source visual analysis and diagnostic tools to facilitate machine learning model selection. Eight Habits of Expert Software Designers: An Illustrated Guide — Experts imagine how a design will work—simulating aspects of the envisioned software and how the different parts of the design support a variety of scenarios. When working with others, experts
Each month, Mike Loukides creates a list of emergent trends from the business and technology worlds. Some items are personal observations or summaries of interesting conversations. Most items on the list have links to media sources—some original sources, some from other reporting, whichever is more informative. Open source and activism trends A new kind of
SQL Queries Don’t Start with SELECT (Julia Evans) — today I learned… Vickery Auctions to Discover Demand Curve — this is gold! Hydra — A framework for elegantly configuring complex applications. Python library that makes config, command-line flags, logging, etc. EU Wants Global Control of Facebook Content (Verge) — On Thursday, the European Union’s top
Why Do Companies With Huge Resources Still Have Terrible Moderation? — an extremely readable explanation of why it’s so damn hard. Hint: AI isn’t it. ent — An entity framework for Go. Simple, yet powerful ORM for modeling and querying data. Open source, from Facebook. Adversarial Interoperability (Cory Doctorow) — collection of articles on when
Data Fallacies to Avoid — nifty infographic for the beginning torturer of data. Transparency Reports Suffering — “The momentum has faded,” says Peter Micek, general counsel with Access Now. The digital rights advocacy group is updating its index of transparency reports, which it last posted in 2016, and this pending revision will document serious stagnation
Just Enough Research — a book that comes recommended by Simon Willison. Observations on Observability — I think the future of operating software systems at scale will look like process engineering. We will rely on continuous signals and look at software systems as dynamical systems. We will embrace similar techniques for process control and continuous
Stamos on CLOUD Act — cogent and informative set of tweets (words I never thought I would say) from Alex Stamos, with context for the latest piece of Internet regulation to get alarmist and wrong media coverage. Migrating from Cloudflare — This is pretty cool, and it’s why I’ve used Cloudflare for a few years.
Intro to Creative Coding — this is the repo, also check out p5.js demos and tone.js demos. (via @mattdesl) The Dynamics of Collective Social Behavior in a Crowd-Controlled Game — We find that having a fraction of players who do not follow the crowd’s average behavior is key to succeed in the game. Recent Programming
