Read it or Throw it #167

1. Ruby Isn't Dead

2. How to learn efficiently

3. How to Be an Expert in a Changing World (Paul Graham)

4. Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is

5. 10 Tips for Becoming an Efficient Vim User

6. Cache is the new RAM

7. The categories of validations

8. Iron.io - How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

9. CCMenu - displays the build status of projects on a continuous integration server as an item in the Mac's menu bar

10. Wallflux - Rss feeds for Facebook groups

Inspiring Quote:

“ You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ” 

 Albert Einstein

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