Labnotes

I recommend Weekend Reading by Assaf Arkin to everyone, covers several topics from design and front-end to security, tooling and peopleware. More than just a collection of links, includes a bit of commentary which makes it feel much more personal. https://labnotes.org/

My favorites: https://labnotes.org/ - fantastic, weekly summary on design, frontend, architecture, business, and some humor. http://rubyweekly.com/ - a roundup of announcements, new gems, talks and more http://www.evilmadscientist.com/tag/linkdump/ - monthly list of links related to science, hardware hacking, geekery http://randsinrepose.com/ - a few posts a month, great advice and thinking about tech and team management. http://consumeconsume.com/ - funny pictures of irony and shock, which always give me great material for tech presentations For RSS->email I use IFTTT

I'm not really a programmer, so I can't volunteer for this, but: Assaf Arkin, who ran the co.mments.com site, might be willing to let some true programmer work with PG to bolt his code onto the HN site somehow - his main site is http://labnotes.org/.

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I agree with most of what you said. I like the idea of Maven's dependency management and repositories. It's also nice to have a lot of plugins to take care of common build system use cases for you. I just happen to hate the rest of it. Fortunately, I can get the best of both worlds. Buildr, Gradle, Ivy, and sbt can all work with maven repositories. So I can take the best of Maven, a.k.a, the one and only really good thing about it, and use it with better build tools! Now, as to why I hate maven, these several-year-old posts explain it better than I do. http://labnotes.org/2007/05/03/buildr-or-when-ruby-is-faster-than-java… http://labnotes.org/2007/04/18/introducing-buildr-or-how-we-cured-our-… And of course on StackOverflow Daniel Spiewak gives an excellent example of how Maven just falls flat. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1015525/why-use-buildr-instead-of-a… Really, it boils down to the fact that I believe that the philosophy of the Maven creators about build systems is fundamentally flawed. They say "when you want to script you know you're doing something wrong". I say, I'm a mature programmer, so give me a mature tool that enables me to get my job done. Case in point. For a simple side project I was using JAXB to create an xsd from java classes. JAXB wanted me to maintain a flat text file listing all of the classes I wanted included in the xsd. I knew for a fact that every single java file inside a particular directory (recursively, of…

After many years of RSS (Google Reader, then Feedly), I gave up on it due to sheer volume and now get my daily fix from curated email newsletters, a mix of news and tech-related ones. This post lead me to make an inventory of them: http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/morning-briefing-europe https://qz.com/ https://webopsweekly.com/ https://www.finimize.com/ http://ben-evans.com/newsletter/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-macro/ https://labnotes.org/ https://aeon.co/ http://softwareleadweekly.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-interpreter http://www.phpweekly.com/ http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ http://www.electricdreaming.com/ https://www.dpreview.com/newsletter And a few Greek ones, might as well add them: https://insidestory.gr/ http://factnews.gr/ http://www.georgakopoulos.org/2014/05/newsletter/

"So startups are just an inefficiency imposed on wealth transfer from VCs to landlords. What if someone disrupted the industry and connected VCs directly to landlords?" ;) (Source: https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-hi-id-like-to-add-you/)