
April 2021


Small Functions considered Harmful – Cindy Sridharan – Medium
I love this because it takes on a lot of conventional wisdom about design and provides reasonable counterpoints

The Next Level of Data Visualization in Python – Towards Data Science
Great new visualization library that I had not seen before!


Scooter startup Bird tried to silence a journalist. It did not go well. – TechCrunch
Fun bit of IP and hacking news. Yeah not fun for the recipient, but interesting for us!

8 Productivity Tips for GitHub
Lots of cool things to do with git that you might not have known about!


CSS doesn’t suck - Andy Bell
See previous post. I admit I haven’t built super complicated sites, but I always seem to avoid extra languages or preprocessing if at all possible.

3 ActiveRecord Mistakes That Slow Down Rails Apps: Count, Where and Present
Every Rails or ActiveRecord Dev should read this!

101 Bash Commands and Tips for Beginners to Experts
Always looking for new productivity in the shell!


Bayesian Inference
This is pretty amazing. Need to play with this more!

r/java - Any hiring manager here? What kind of Java project will impress you for entry level position?
Interesting thread of good answers for new grads on how to prepare to get a job in the software world.
Open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw UML diagrams.
Looks like a pretty amazing simple tool for creating those tedious diagrams. Similar to GraphViz for a different domain.
Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet (Know Thy Complexities!) @ericdrowell
Handy summary