I decided to start putting together a list of resources that I have found useful through the week, so without further adieu, here's what I have been reading and watching this week!

In terms of books, I have been reading The Splendid and the Vile , which has been thoroughly enjoyable so far.

I miss EVGA

YouTube video I watched this week. Jay played with an EVGA 3090 water cool AIO YouTube

Pact

Article about Pact, a contract testing framework I'm trying to become familiar with. Article

New mailing list

I subscribed to Ryan Holiday's newsletter of books to read. Link

Should universities teach git? (And random encodings)

Backend Banter this week had a couple of interesting hot takes including the idea that universities shouldn't focus on using Git but instead should focus on the concepts by teaching how to build version control . I think it was a great discussion and we learned more about some of the asynchronous game stream encoding that ThePrimeagen has been working on. YouTube

Apparently Brave is kind of scummy

I have used the browser Brave in the past but I switched back to Firefox a few years ago because I was having some performance issues scrolling on pages in X-window, but apparently there has been more development that I wasn't aware of and they've made some pretty strange decisions, especially regarding crypto Article

The Brain is not a Computer

While I think this article might go a little too far, I am generally sympathetic with their take that the metaphor of a computer isn’t the right one for understanding the brain. Link

Firefox is working with the Russian government

I haven’t found independent verification of this yet, but Firefox may have agreed to block some addons in Russia at the request of the Russian government. Article

Could Microsoft Have Prevented SolarWinds?

An excellent piece of investigative journalism piecing together the events that led up to the SolarWinds hack. One researcher within Microsoft tried to raise the alarm about this vulnerability years before it was known to be exploited and Microsoft failed to prioritize Article

Can we Replace the Junior Software Engineer?

Charity Majors doesn’t think so, and I’m inclined to agree Article

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