July 2, 2025

Links of Interest for June, 2025

Interesting

• Things that don’t work
• Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
• Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain

Technology

• Everything I know about good system design
• Functional HTML
• Database-Oriented Design: Why We Built Our MMORPG Inside a Database

Work

• Silicon Valley’s ‘Tiny Team’ Era Is Here
• ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
• Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (And What to Do About It)

Design

• Purposeful vs Aesthetic Naming
• Physicality: the new age of UI
• Is chat a good UI for AI? A Socratic dialogue

GIF of the Month