21 / Why Electron apps are fine

Hi, enjoy this weeks issue! 🙌🏻

Tweet of the Week

Building shared understanding is some of the most undervalued work in software development. — @norootcause on Twitter

Culture

• Why We Don't Do Daily Stand-Ups (jezenthomas.com)

  Jezen Thomas explains why his company doesn’t do daily stand-ups and I mostly agree.

• The Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable (theatlantic.com)

  Derek Thompson about the worship of work and its history.

Software Engineering

• How I re-over-engineered my home network for privacy and security (ben.balter.com)

  Ben Balter about his home-network setup. I always find these posts inspiring and they always make me think about how to improve my home network/server.

• Why Electron apps are fine (nielsleenheer.com)

  Niels Leenheer thinks Electron apps are fine and tells you why he feels that way.

• How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players using WorldQL's spatial database (worldql.com)

  Jackson Roberts made Minecraft scalable with a single-source-of-truth database called Mammoth.

Cutting Room Flor

• Buried in concrete: mafia architecture – in pictures (theguardian.com)

  Alessio Mamo photographed the ruins of some of the Italian mafia villas.

• How to Keep the Days From Blurring Together (nytimes.com)

  Melissa Kirsch shares some tricks that help bring structure to a day.