December 18, 2020

inkelinks S01E04

#inkelinks S01E04

Four issues already! This has been really fun, I’m enjoying myself too much collecting all these links and crafting each newsletter issue. I want to express my gratitude to all of you who subscribed, and as always, please send me your feedback and suggestions by replying this email, and share the newsletter with your friends!

Links

• 8 Big Ideas From 8 Programming Languages
  A tour of some of the defining characteristics and ideas of eight different programming languages. Thank you @k4nd4lf for the suggestion!
• Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation
  Etsy’s engineering blog is full of great articles, and in this one, albeit old, they talk about a great experiment on keeping documentation up to date by not only making it immutable but also providing a great user interface by using their chat system to as the UI for searching and updating documentation.
• How a one line change decreased our clone times by 99%
  Pinterest is another company that has a great engineering blog, and in this opportunity they share how by only fetching one and just one branch they removed a huge bottleneck on their build pipeline. As said in episode one of this newsletter: there’s always something new to learn about Git.
• Get your work recognized: write a brag document
  What a wonderful idea! I definitely need to start doing this. As en Emacs user this sounds like something that could be implemented using Org Mode.
• How is computer programming different today than 20 years ago?
  As someone who started programming 20 years ago I found myself nodding with agreement at this list. It has some harsh truths on it disguised as humour.

Video of the week

The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer
This is one of my favourites ever videos, as it combines a great delivery with two subjects that I love: space and programming.