Read it or Throw it #166

1. Does everyone in your team write good code?

2. “DCI” in Ruby is completely broken

3. How You Know (Paul Graham)

4. HP's Revolutionary New Computer That Could Shrink A Data Center To The Size Of A Refrigerator Is Coming In 2016

5. Errplane Snags $8.1M To Continue Building Open Source InfluxDB Time Series Database

6. Why did Koding move away from containers and Docker to virtual machines? (Quora)

7. Gangnam Style Has Been Viewed So Many Times It Broke YouTube’s Code

8. Lift - Succeed at everything

9. Impostor syndrome (Wikipedia)

10. Recommended Talk: Pipe Dreams by Bruce Tate (YouTube)

Read it or Throw it #165

1. Raptor - a radically new Ruby web server

2. The Rails culture and The Rails Way (by Andrzej Krzywda)

3. Amazon EC2 Container Service

4. NeoVim and Atom

5. LinkedIn Aims To Tame Giant Datasets With Cubert

6. the_silver_searcher - a code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster

7. Regulex - JavaScript Regular Expression Visualizer

8. noisli - Mix different sounds and create your perfect environment

9. Recommended Talk: Elixir Conf 2014 Keynote: Elixir by Jose Valim

10. Recommended Talk: Write code faster: expert-level vim (by Ben Orenstein)

Read it or Throw it #164

1. After Docker: Unikernels and Immutable Infrastructure

2. Why InfluxDB is written in Go

3. New Relic Synthetics - Simulate a real user experience to test and solve issues through the entire development lifecycle

4. Flexiglass - Working with windows on a Mac couldn't be any easier

5. Short-lived Branches (Corey Haines)

6. StackShare - Discover & discuss software stacks

7. awesome-weekly - An "awesome" type curated list of quality weekly subscription newsletters from the software world

8. Recommended Talk: The Short and Happy Lives of TCP and HTTP Requests (YouTube)

9. Recommended Talk: How to Debug Anything by James Golick (YouTube)

10. Recommended Book: Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

Read it or Throw it #163

1. Ruby is about to get red hot. Again
2. Career planning: Where do old devs go to? (by Ayende)

3. Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor (by Paul Dix)

4. vimrcfu - share your best vimrc snippets

5. osquery - SQL powered operating system instrumentation and analytics

6. The Stupidity of Cutting Sleep (by Scott H Young)

7. Hack for OSX: Want to work A LOT faster? Adjust key repeat rate settings

8. Leanstack weekly - newsletter featuring the best hand-curated news, announcements, launches, and content related to developer tools & services

9. searchcode - a source code search engine

10. The Internet in Real-Time

Read it or Throw it #162

1. The Joy of Ruby (by myself - download the video to watch)

2. Seven micro-services architecture advantages

3. Hexagonal Architecture

4. Postgres Outperforms MongoDB and Ushers in New Developer Reality

5. Runscope Radar: API Monitoring and Testing

6. Announcing the public Beta of RubyMotion for Android

7. Docker’s So Hot It Just Got $40M It Won’t Start Spending Until Next Year

8. Service objects in Rails will help you design clean and maintainable code

9. The Web engineer's online toolbox

10. Recommended Book: Growing Rails Applications in Practice

Inspiring Quote:

“ It's not at all important to get it right the first time. It's vitally important to get it right the last time. ” 

Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

Read it or Throw it #161

1. Erlang: From WhatsApp To Outerspace

2. Most Code Is an Ugly Mess. Here’s How to Make It Beautiful

3. Microservice Prerequisites (by Martin Fowler)

4. Lessons From A Lifetime Of Being A Programmer

5. neovim - Plugin UI architecture

6. Gourmet Service Objects

7. PutsReq - lets you record HTTP requests and simulate responses

8. With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things

9. Funny: Techy Help YouTube Channel

10. Recommended Book: Leading Snowflakes

Inspiring Quote:

"Duplication Is Better Than The Wrong Abstraction"

Sandi Metz

Read it or Throw it #160

1. Scalable code without bloat: DCI, Use Cases, and You

2. Keep email views out of the models

3. How we build microservices at Karma

4. Recommended Blog about Architecture: 8Light 

5. Conway's law

6. ThoughtWorks Technology Radar July 2014 (pdf)

7. The next big thing in big data: fast data (Nati Shalom's Blog)

8. 40 MANTRAS - Building high performing cultures one mantra at a time

9. 14 Things Every Successful Person Has In Common

10. Recommended Video - on Decoupling from Rails (R.I.P Jim Weirich)

Read it or Throw it #159

1. Limit your abstractions: The key is in the infrastructure… (by Ayende)

2. Coding: Single Level of Abstraction Principle

3. I'm Sick Of GOF Design Patterns

4. Java Developers (see also: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns)

5. Emacs & Vim

6. Hacker News Tools of The Trade, 2014 Edition

7. RavenDB On Azure (see also: RavenDB Map/Reduce Visualizer)

8. Bitly: Lessons Learned Building A Distributed System That Handles 6 Billion Clicks A Month

9. The power of lonely - What we do better without other people around

10. Recommended Book - Fearless Refactoring: Rails Controllers

Inspiring Quote:

" Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. "

Albert Einstein

Read it or Throw it #158

1. awesome-awesomeness - A curated list of awesome awesomeness

2. Ruby Bookmarks - Ruby and Ruby on Rails Bookmarks Collection

3. GoRails

4. The fallacy of distributed transactions (by Ayende)

5. Where do ideas come from? (by Avdi Grimm)

6. 10 Program Busting Caching Mistakes

7. NSBCon 2014

8. The "Just In Time" Theory of User Behavior (Coding Horror)

9. Drunk User Testing - Test Your Site

10. The psychology of side projects: How creative hobbies improve our performance at everything

Read it or Throw it #157

1. The March Towards Go

2. The Myth of the Full-stack Developer

3. "Fat model, skinny controller" is a load of rubbish

4. The Fallacy of Shared Entity Model (by Ayende)

5. Trello on Your Wrist

6. 42 Newsletters for Developers - The Ultimate List (by Takipi)

7. Lua: A Guide for Redis Users

8. Redis Transactions

9. Here’s The Schedule Very Successful People Follow Every Day

10. Recommended Talk: Go Ahead, Make a Mess (by Sandi Metz)

The 3 Previous Issues:

Read it or Throw it #156

Read it or Throw it #155

Read it or Throw it #154

Inspiring Quote: 

" Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability "

      Edsger Dijkstra

Read it or Throw it #156

1. Beware the common infrastructure (Ayende)

2. Data Context Interaction: The Evolution of the Object Oriented Paradigm

3. Xiki: The Command Revolution

4. git-cherry-pick

5. Using Spaced Repetition Software to Master Vim

6. 0xDBE - a new IDE that offers advanced database tools for DBAs and developers (by JetBrains)

7. Docker 1.0

8. Comparison of Ruby Programming Language Implementations

9. Life Hacking: The Meaning of Life (by Derek Sivers)

10. Recommended Talk: Why You Don't Get Mock Objects (by Gregory Moeck) 

Read it or Throw it #155

1. Apple's top secret Swift language grew from work to sustain Objective C, which it now aims to replace

2. ElasticSearch Scores $70M In Series C To Fund Growth Spurt

3. 5 Reasons to Use Protocol Buffers Instead of JSON For Your Next Service

4. RavenDB Migration Assistance Services now available

5. Moore's Law is Crap (by Steve Yegge)

6. HTTP API design guide extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API

7. 10 Lessons I Learned from a Year of Productivity Experiments

8. Where Silicon Valley gets its talent

9. Silicon Valley (TV Series 2014– ) - IMDb

10. Recommended Talk: Rules (by Sandi Metz)

Read it or Throw it #154

1. How deep are your unit tests? (StackOverflow)

2. Git v2.0.0 - what changed, and why should you care

3. RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support

4. Announcing Xamarin 3

5. ViewDNS.info - Your one source for DNS related tools

6. The Boy Scout Rule

7. On that Microservices thing (Udi Dahan)

8. fzf - Fuzzy finder for your shell

9. Things you didn't know about Git

 10. Recommended Talk: Boundaries (by Gary Bernhardt)

Read it or Throw it #153

1. Test Isolation Is About Avoiding Mocks (by Gary Bernhardt)

2. Qualities of Tests (by Corey Haines)

3. Jim Weirich on Exceptions

4. Redis, MongoDB and the Power of Incremency

5. #1000 (The 1000th blog post of Scott H Young)

6. Saas Service: Hosted InfluxDB + Grafana

7. The Next Big Thing You Missed: One Day, You’ll Google the Physical World With a Scanner Like This

8. Life Hacking - Loving what I used to hate (by Derek Sivers)

9. Recommend Resource: SaaS Club

10. Recommended Talk - Architecture the Lost Years (by Robert C. Martin)

The 3 Previous Issues:

Read it or Throw it #152

Read it or Throw it #151

Read it or Throw it #150

Read it or Throw it #152

1. Meet the Italian Who Beat Google to Web Search -- and Gave It Away

2. Hacker News Poll: What database does your company/you use?

3. Announcing Dropbox Webhooks

4. RocksDB - A persistent key-value store for fast storage environments

5. Trailer.app keeps tabs on GitHub pull requests across repositories, directly in OS X Notification Center

6. Syncthing - Open Source Continuous Replication / Cluster Synchronization Thing

7. Why Google doesn’t care about college degrees, in 5 quotes (VentureBeat)

8. Awesome resource for Rubyists: RubyTapas

9. Recommended Talk: Demanding Professionalism in Software Development (Robert C. Martin)

10. Recommended Book: Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design (by Corey Haines)

The 3 Previous Issues:

Read it or Throw it #151

Read it or Throw it #150

Read it or Throw it #149

Read it or Throw it #151

1. Must Watch: Breaking apart conceptions (Ayende)

2. Hexagonal Architecture for Rails Developers (NOT only for Rails Developers)

3. Don't just dump code into your models (NOT only for Rails developers)

4. Digging Deeper into OAuth 2.0

5. SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year

6. How to Suck at Conference Talks (by Avdi Grimm)

7. IBM unveils a computer that can argue

8. Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus (by Steve Yegge)

9. The Difference Between Successful and Very Successful People

10. Recommended Talk: Git From The Bits Up (YouTube)

The 3 Previous Issues:

Read it or Throw it #150

Read it or Throw it #149

Read it or Throw it #148

Read it or Throw it reaches issue #150!!

Hi all!
  I'm very happy to announce that Read it or Throw it reached its 150th issue!!
The first issue was posted at 24/10/2011 (more than 3.5 years ago!)

Actually the motivation behind Read it or Throw it was to force myself to keep update-to-date with technological content of various kinds.

The reason the newsletter has this awkward name, tracks me back to the days when I used to email my friends links I found useful via a mailing-list.

As expected, each article would receive likes by part of the readers and dislikes by others.
If you ask 2 people, I'd get 3 answers ;)  So I've decided to give the newsletter this name: If you like what I post then Read it (and share it if you can...). if you don't like it then Throw it - it's cool too.

I believe that striving to stay updated as much as possible can benefit us in two major aspects:
1. Make us more creative
2. Help avoiding to reinvent the wheel


So... some words regarding the future:
1. I intend to keep posting a Read it or Throw it issue on a Weekly basis (there are weeks that I don't find the time/have enough content I find interesting enough to share).

2. Each issue will still be composed of exactly 10 links. I'll try hard to share contents of various flavours, which will be helpful/practical too.

3. I think about posting once a month a special issue surrounding a focused topic. All the links will target the same topic. There may be less than 10 links at these issues (maybe I'll give this series a different name...)

4. I'd be happy to receive some feedback from you!
Here are some questions I'd love to get some feedback:
   1. Did Read it or Throw it helped you at least once in you daily work?
   2. What type of content do you like the most?
   3. The number of links per issue and the frequency of posting the issues is OK? would you change it?
   4. How do you consume the content? (via email, via RSS, via visiting the site once in while)
   5. Anything else you'd do to make Read it or Throw it more awesome

   Please email me your feedback to: Yaron.Wittenstein@gmail.com


Two last comments:
1. Feel free to send me technological content you think might interest more people. If I will insert it to one of my future issues (I can't promise) I will give you credits! (unless you ask me not to give you credit).
2. Please send Read it or Throw it to your friends/co-workers/anyone you think will love it

     Thank you!
        Yaron Wittenstein

Read it or Throw it #150

1. Culture: Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim

2. Life Hacking: Dvorak – Two years later, was it worth it?

3. Open Source: Crate Data - an Open Source Massively Scalable Data Store

4. Ruby: Learn advanced Rake in 7 episodes

5. Ask HN: How do you get and stay in the "zone"?

6. Classics: Tour De Babel (Steve Yegge)

7. WTF: Facebook's Git repo is 54 GB

8. Kickstarter: SCiO - Your Sixth Sense. A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All!

9. Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

10. Funny: The Gif Yourself

Read it or Throw it #149

1. Rust vs Go

2. Using Wisper to Decompose Applications (for Ruby Programmers)

3. The Three-Step Strategy to Study Hard Without Burning Out (by Scott H Young)

4. Toward a better programming (Chris Granger)

5. Increase Productivity by Building Your Muscle Memory (see also my talk here)

6. Charles Proxy - Web Debugging Proxy Application for Windows, OSX and Linux

7. Microservices - Not A Free Lunch! (HighScalability.com)

8. Secret StartupJobs in Israel

9. Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job

10. Apple Earns More Money Than HP, Google, Intel and Cisco Combined

Read it or Throw it #148

1. How to Increase Your Brain's Cache Hits? (by me)

2. Reversim Summit 2014 Videos

3. Leading Snowflakes - Become The Leader Your Engineers Need

4. Product Hunt - a daily leaderboard of the best new products

5. sysdig - a system exploration and troubleshooting tool

6. JavaScriptOO - every javascript project you should be looking into

7. gor - HTTP traffic replay in real-time. Replay traffic from production to staging and dev environments

8. ElasticBox - easily develop, deploy, and manage applications for any cloud

9. Microsoft open sources more of its .Net technologies

10. Amazon Dash

Read it or Throw it #147

1. Redis Desktop Manager - Redis GUI management tool for Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Debian

2. Genymotion - The Faster Android Emulator

3. Screenhero - Collaborative Screen Sharing

4. ngxtop - real-time metrics for nginx server

5. Oh My Zsh - Your terminal never felt this good before

6. Mithril - A Javascript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications

7. websocketd - turn any application that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server

8. Sublime is Sublime (Part 1)

9.  iOS apps crash more often than Android apps, according to report

10. How Facebook and Twitter built the best employee training programs in Silicon Valley 

Read it or Throw it #146

1. Is Ruby Fast Yet?

2. Commando - manage servers easily online

3. Changes in the Microsoft MVP Program - MVPs for Open Source Contributions (Scott Hanselman)

4. 16 Productivity OSX Apps Used By Shopify

5. A Day of Communication at GitHub (Zach Holman)

6. Gmail now always uses an HTTPS connection and encrypts all messages moving internally on Google’s servers

7. JsonStub - fake the backend while you develop the frontend

8. Raygun - exceptional Error Tracking

9. Timeful - the intelligent time manager

10. MoreSitesLikeThis

Read it or Throw it #145

1. 10 Years of Coding Horror

2. Check Out Atom, GitHub's New Development Editor

3. GitHub Flow

4. The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion

5. 10 Realtime Web Technology Predictions for 2014

6. Go Bootcamp - Everything you need to know to get started with Go

7. Alfred Github Workflow - GitHub command bar for Alfred 2

8. How to check memory usage of Chrome extensions

9. Spritz - Reading Reimagined

10. Why we procrastinate by Vik Nithy (TEDxYouth)

Read it or Throw it #144

1. Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

2. Neovim vim's rebirth for the 21st century

3. Rumors of Ruby's Demise

4. RavenDB 3.0 Status Update

5. go - Automate and streamline the build-test-release cycle for worry-free, continuous delivery of your product

6. Bucky - Open Source Real User Monitoring

7 . Feature Preview: Vagrant Share

8. Project Tango - give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion

9. Project Ara: Inside Google’s Bold Gambit to Make Smartphones Modular

10. Can You Make Yourself Smarter? (YouTube)

Read it or Throw it #143

1. GoodUI

2. YourLanguageSucks

3. PopClip for Mac

4. Gulp, Grunt, Whatever

5. Sublimall - the way to sync and save your SublimeText configuration everywhere

6. Saying Goodbye To Python

7. How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

8. Facebook Knows When You're About to Update Your Relationship Status

9. How Things Change

10. Apple patents sensor-packed health monitoring headphones with 'head gesture' control

Read it or Throw it #142

1. If you had to start over, what technologies would you learn in 2014? (by Scott Hanselman)

2. ThoughtWorks Technology Radar

3. Micro Services (by Tikal)

4. Practicing Ruby's Public Archive

5. Google is working on a way to run Chrome apps without the full Chrome process

6. Microsoft could bring Android apps to Windows

7. With Chromebooks A Success, Google Adds Focus On Chromeboxes

8. Run Chrome Apps on mobile using Apache Cordova

9. SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive

10. Brief diversions vastly improve focus

Read it or Throw it #141

1. All the pieces of a feature (Ayende)
2. Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

3. Top 10 Startups Built on Docker

4. Micro Service Architecture

5. Why Graphite

6. The Most Revealing Job Interview Question

7. The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2014

8. A tmux Tutorial and Primer

9. Here’s What Would Make Google’s Smartwatch Awesome

10. Fun is the Future: Mastering Gamification (YouTube)

Read it or Throw it #140

1. Ruby is more than Rails (from my new blog)

2. 25 awesome tools every developer should have

3. Hidden Productivity Secrets With Alfred

4. Mobile Usability Designs to Learn From

5. How Google Backs Up The Internet Along With Exabytes Of Other Data (HighScalability.com)

6. GitHub Guides

7. How To Become Uber Productive While Working For Yourself

8. The Great Code Club

9. The Pretotyping Manifesto (YouTube)

10. US to mandate V2V car-to-car communications for safer roads

Read it or Throw it #139

1. Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

2. Why “Simple” Websites Are Scientifically Superior

3. We spent a week making Trello boards load extremely fast. Here’s how we did it

4. How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood

5. How HipChat Stores And Indexes Billions Of Messages Using ElasticSearch And Redis (HighScalability.com)

6. #CodeCulture

7. How to Speed Up Your Learning Rate (Scott H Young)

8. Urban Airship - Mobile Marketing Solutions

9. 21 Web Applications That I Use and Can’t Live Without

10. Instabeat - Master your swim!

Read it or Throw it #138

1. The Landscape Of Front-end Development Automation

2. How Paypal is being revolutionised by Node.js and Lean-UX

3. Eight Cloud and Big Data Predictions for 2014 (by Nati Shalom)

4. Meet the Open Source Trio Primed to Topple Oracle

5. Deflect.io - enables web application developers to get work done without waiting for server changes

6. Super successful companies

7. Chrome Is The New C Runtime

8. Docker Raises $15M For Its Open-Source Platform That Helps Developers Build Apps In The Cloud

9. Your Most Important Skill: Empathy

10. DB Weekly - A forthcoming weekly round-up of database technology news and articles

Read it or Throw it #137

1. Why Are Facebook, Digg, And Twitter So Hard To Scale?

2. Measure, Monitor, Observe and Supervise (Avi Tzurel)

3. Devops Healing (Evgeny Zislis)

4. We Analyzed 30,000 GitHub Projects – Here Are The Top 100 Libraries in Java, JS and Ruby (Takipi)

5. Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js

6. Best of Sublime Text 3: Features, Plugins, and Settings

7. Database Company MongoDB Raises $150M to Chip Away at Oracle

8. WireOver - Send Big Files *Really* Securely

9. 4K is for programmers

10. You look different! £3 avatar software mimics facial expressions to transform you into a magical creature as you Skype

Read it or Throw it #136

1. Spacegray - A Hyperminimal UI Theme for Sublime Text

2. A glimpse into a new general purpose programming language under development at Microsoft

3. Top 5 Core Differences Between Bootstrap 3 and Foundation 5

4. Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?

5. node-webkit - Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies

6. Light Table is open source

7. StackEdit - *smart* markdown editor

8. YouTab - Lyrics and chords in sync with your music

9. Do Nothing for 2 Minutes

10. Classics - iPhone Keynote 2007 (Youtube)

Read it or Throw it #135

1. Reversim Summit 2014 - Vote is open (my proposals)

2. Dev Tech That Will be HOT in 2014
3. Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

4. BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology

5. Git Cheatsheet

6. SelfControl - A free Mac application to help you avoid distracting websites

7. GitHub Reaches 10 Million Repositories

8. Optimizing NGINX TLS Time To First Byte (TTTFB)

9. exercism.io - Crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems

10. The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers