June 4, 2021

inkelinks S02E16

Welcome, friends! I hope you're all doing well.

Links

• Testing software so it's reliable enough for space [4m]
  I have to admit that the title is a little bit of a clickbait, nevertheless, it's interesting to see that even big companies like SpaceX take a very traditional way for testing software… even if their use cases aren't very traditional.
• Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving [5m]
  This article is mostly about the psychology of choices, but it can be applied to software development too. Sometimes to add value you need to subtract features.
• Memory leaks on missile’s software [1m]
  Of course you don’t want your programs leaking memory… unless the hardware they run on explodes before you leaked too much.
• Refactoring code that accesses external services [23m]
  This is a great article with a quite real example of how you can make your code more modular and easier to test and refactor. While heavily oriented to OO-Programming I think the key concepts can be applied to any paradigm.

Video of the week

Problems with Zero [13m]
I remember in high school having a bit of trouble trying to understand why operations involving zero were undefined. I reckon I wasn't the smartest person in the class, but also the explanations weren't as simple and enlightening as these ones.

Epilogue

Have you ever thought how the last webpage on the Internet must look like? Well, let me present you the end of the Internet.