Books
This week I finished The Splendid and the Vile . What a book. If you have any interest in WW2 or in Churchill himself, I highly recommend it.
C usages of goto
An article about C programming that I think has more to do with program structure in general link .
Native apps rock
Crazy stories of life in the mountains
Be very careful redirecting http to https
I haven't really spent much time thinking about whether or not it's safe to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, but apparently there's more to it than I realized. article
Deep work in a remote world
A really great article about the biggest challenge most development shops face today. It isn't AI, it's meetings. article
The EU Wants to Read Your Texts
And while I think they're well intentioned, this is a very dangerous idea. article
What was the point of the copilot button again?
I am so sick of talking about AI. article
The Other Side of AI: low skill work
I am still so sick of talking about AI, but also, the impact on low skilled work isn't something I am seeing many folks talk about. article
Threads Vs Mastodon Vs Bluesky: What is the Social Web?
I am starting to think that everyone should use federated social media and that nobody should be using the traditional platforms. Only because the focus on the technology and making it work for humans rather than for profit means that the users can impact how their software is developed. article
The US Government Bans Kaspersky
Wait, Kapersky was still around? article
Recruiting is getting weird in the AI Era
Because of course it is. article