Links

A page of links.

Thinking, knowledge, philosophy

• Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
• Use plaintext email
• What have you tried? - Matt Gemmell

Privacy, encryption, security

• Latacora - The PGP Problem
• PRISM Break - Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora
• Privacy Tools - Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance
• Security Education Companion - EFF
• Surveillance Self-Defense - EFF

Tools, resources

• Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet (Know Thy Complexities!) @ericdrowell
• DPI Calculator / PPI Calculator
• Git Explorer
• Logical Increments
• NeverSSL - helping you get online
• WEBWORMHOLE
• WebSequenceDiagrams
• Yopass: Share Secrets Securely

Computers, engineering, technology

• Advice I can give to young programmers… - Ramsey Nasser on Twitter
• CertificationCompetenceCorrelation
• Files are fraught with peril
• Go & Versioning - research!rsc
• Hyperpolyglot - Programming Languages side-by-side
• Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
• Jane Street Tech Blog - Putting the I back in IDE: Towards a Github Explorer
• Markets, discrimination, and “lowering the bar”
• Production readiness · jbd.dev
• Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
• Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me
• Sustainable Web Manifesto
• The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker
• The world in which IPv6 was a good design - apenwarr
• Wat - Destroy All Software
• You should not run your mail server because mail is hard - poolp.org

Management, leadership

• Defining a Distinguished Engineer | Ramblings from Jessie
• Leadership without management: Scaling organisations by scaling engineers
• Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters

Society, culture, politics

• Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring - By Daniel Jeffries
• Liebreich: We Need To Talk About Nuclear Power | BloombergNEF
• San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless | City Journal
• The Causes and Consequences of Berlin’s Rapid Gentrification | The New Yorker
• Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal
• WeWTF, Part Deux | No Mercy / No Malice
• Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us | WIRED

Covid19

• COVID-19 Situation Dashboard - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
• COVID-19-Dashboard - Robert Koch-Institut
• Coronavirus tracker - Financial Times
• SARS-CoV-2 builds - Nextstrain
• Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” - Washington Post

Miscellaneous

• Aboalarm – Verträge online kündigen, verwalten und optimieren
• Strength Level - Weightlifting Calculator (Bench/Squat/Deadlift)
• The Life Assessment Checklist - Johnny Webber