the-dial-tone

#69

Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame, often with the same outcome.

Neal Ford, The Productive Programmer

The Speed Dial

The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President [www.theatlantic.com]
Being a Noob [www.paulgraham.com]
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It [www.nytimes.com]

Management/Culture

Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks [hbr.org]

Development/Releases

Monoliths are the future [changelog.com]
Do We Worship Complexity? [www.innoq.com]
The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got [russolsen.com]
The tools you’d miss if you left a company [rachelbythebay.com]

Technical

JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed [blog.cloudflare.com]

News/Other

The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy [www.politico.com]
WSJ News Exclusive - Federal Judge Expected to Clear Way for T-Mobile and Sprint Merger [www.wsj.com]
Who Speaks for Crazy Horse? [www.newyorker.com]
Google Maps Hack [www.simonweckert.com]
How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk [www.nytimes.com]
The Woman Shaking Up the Diamond Industry [www.newyorker.com]
Silicon Valley’s new extreme: The 2:30 a.m. tech bus from Salida [www.protocol.com]

Books/Podcasts/Videos

Everybody Lies [www.goodreads.com]
An Arm And a Leg [armandalegshow.com]
Mad Men — The Art of Character Arcs [youtu.be]