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vodkaPong | 2 years ago | on: (next Rich)

Thanks for sharing your ideas with all of us Rich. I've only dabbled in Clojure but like many others I've found the language and your talks and ideas inspirational and exciting. A rare example of successfully simplifying things, referring to your deservedly famous talk.

vodkaPong | 5 years ago | on: The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)

I really enjoyed reading this book too. It's an interesting story about finding a hacker and Cliff has a great writing style.

vodkaPong | 6 years ago | on: The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy

I've found that to be a really useful extension as well, stops you getting distracted by all the news feed posts when you just logged in to check an event or something.

vodkaPong | 6 years ago | on: LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app

The architecture they have ended up with is similar to that described in Out of the Tar Pit, which describes how to remove as much complexity from software as possible.

By moving all state into SQLite they have implemented the "store state in relations" layer, and then written (as far as possible) functional code on top.

I've been thinking about how to make my software more like this so it's interesting to see Facebook are thinking along the same lines.

There's a lot of really good ideas in Out of the Tar Pit and I'd really recommend reading it.

vodkaPong | 7 years ago | on: Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location?

Could Google enable this feature without harming user privacy?

What if they allowed you to name SSIDs such as 'Home' or 'Work', and then when the app scanned for networks in your house it would only see 'Home'?

vodkaPong | 8 years ago | on: An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage

I really enjoyed reading this, despite its length! It makes some great points about scheduling that resonated with me, backed up by interesting thought experiments.

vodkaPong | 8 years ago | on: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

How stable and usable is LineageOS on Fairphone 2? I also have one and am intrigued to try it.