26 / Twitter has a kernel team!?

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Tweet of the Week

everyone talks about how instagram is bad for mental health but what about jira?? — @ikasliwal on Twitter

Favourites

• You can't tell people anything (2004) (habitatchronicles.com)

  A great post by Chip, who explains how some things have to be experienced, telling people about it is not enough.

• Why corporate social responsibility is BS (theguardian.com)

  Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor, about corporate social responsibility and how it‘s mostly marketing.

• Why Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart? (durmonski.com)

  Ivaylo Durmonski about the loop of smartness and curiosity.

• The Stability Fantasy (orionmagazine.org)

  Emmett FitzGerald on the illusion of viewing nature as a stable backdrop of life.

Facebook

• Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)

  Celso Martinho with an outsiders view on the Facebook outage.

• More details about the October 4 outage (engineering.fb.com)

  Santosh Janardhan about the things that happened inside of Facebook during the outage.

• Tools to explore BGP (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans about the BGP protocol and tools to visualize BGP routes.

• The Facebook whistleblower testifies (platformer.news)

  Casey Newton about the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and her testimonial.

• We need to talk about Facebook PR guy Andy Stone (inputmag.com)

  Chris Stokel-Walker about the questionable methods of Favebooks PR guy Andy Stone.

Culture

• Sociotechnical Lenses into Software Systems (paulosman.me)

  Paul Osman about the different lenses one can have on a team and the importance of the sociotechnical one.

• Doing Software Estimation within constraints of Hofstadter’s law and Parkinson’s law (shekhargulati.com)

  Shekhar Gulati has a guide to maybe more precise software estimation.

• How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation (lucasfcosta.com)

  Lucas Fernandes da Costa recommends a simulation for (software) estimations.

Software Engineering

• The value of in-house expertise (danluu.com)

  Dan Luu about the the old buy vs. build question and why it’s often better to build (for bigger companies).

• My Logging Best Practices (tuhrig.de)

  Thomas has some tips when it comes to application logging.

• Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? (arxiv.org)

  Stanley P. Y. Fung introduces a super simple, though slow, sorting algorithm.

• 3 Things Go Needs Right Now More Than Generics (betterprogramming.pub)

  Ryan Collingham about Go‘s missing features, in particular enums, universal nil and concise error handling.

• Faster time parsing (philpearl.github.io)

  Phil Pearl goes on an adventure to make parsing RFC3339 faster.

• 20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer (simplethread.com)

  Justin Etheredge has a list of great advice.

• Corey Quinn on Twitter (twitter.com)

  Corey Quinn has a thread of things learned over the years from various outages.

Cutting Room Floor

• Rewilding your attention (uxdesign.cc)

  Clive Thompson makes the point that we should discover new things without the algorithms sometimes, it‘s called „rewilding your attention“.

• It’s time to stop misleading consumers about recycling (latimes.com)

  LA Times on the sad state of recycling (in the US).

• Most Americans Today Believe the Stock Market Is Rigged, and They’re Right (bloomberg.com)

  Liam Vaughan about insider trading and fairness in the stock market.

• A world first: Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane (noaa.gov)

  Impressive footage from inside a hurricane.

• The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants (theatlantic.com)

  Amanda Mull about the journey your sent-back items take and the myth that they get re-sold.