WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.480 The Weekly Thing, issue 52. May 5, twenty eighteen. Published May 5, twenty eighteen. By Jamie Thingelstad. In this issue: WeWork's growing empire, GitHub Pages HTTPS, Prime Book Box, synthetic nucleotides, code review culture, passwords online. 00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:25.533 This issue marks the first year of the Weekly Thing! I am enjoying this project, and I've heard from many of you who subscribe that you have found it valuable too! 00:00:26.033 --> 00:00:47.016 I published the first Weekly Thing on May 13, twenty seventeen. That first one went to a dozen or so friends that I invited to join this experiment with me. Looking at that first one is a reminder of how much the structure has evolved. At the one year mark there are over 500 people who have signed up to get the Weekly Thing! 00:00:47.516 --> 00:00:58.576 Thank you for subscribing and let's get on to the second year of Weekly Things! As always, if you know others that you think would enjoy the Weekly Thing send them to to sign up! 00:00:59.976 --> 00:01:01.874 Now, the Featured Links section. 00:01:02.474 --> 00:01:04.621 Don't miss these gems from the past week. 00:01:05.121 --> 00:01:09.648 The Numbers Behind WeWork's Growing Empire - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com. 00:01:10.148 --> 00:01:39.497 This doesn't read like a healthy company. CEO Adam Neumann has 65% of the voting shares, and in the last two years has paid 9.8 million dollars in leases to properties owned by officers and affiliates of the company, with 90 million dollars in future lease payments. Meanwhile the companies costs are rising faster than revenue. 220,000 members with 251,000 desks? I would think they would have more subscribers than desks. 00:01:39.997 --> 00:01:44.725 Inside Nintendo's secretive creative process | Games | The Guardian www.theguardian.com. 00:01:45.225 --> 00:01:52.214 The headline is a bit overstated, but this is a little peak into how Nintendo approaches creating new game experiences. 00:01:52.714 --> 00:01:59.992 Quote. “We have the software team and the hardware team working very closely together,” elaborates Takahashi. End quote. 00:02:00.492 --> 00:02:12.369 I think you could write a near clone of this article for Apple. I love the hiring emphasis to focus on people that have put continued diligence on a project over years, independent of the outcome. 00:02:12.869 --> 00:02:19.545 Stack Overflow Isn't Very Welcoming. It's Time for That to Change. - Stack Overflow Blog stackoverflow.blog. 00:02:20.045 --> 00:02:47.647 Even in my casual use of Stack Overflow I have come across some of the abrasive culture items noted in this post from their EVP of Culture and Experience, Jay Hanlon. This is a good statement of the problem and where they are starting. The whole time I read it I kept thinking how incredibly hard it is to build community on the Internet. Your average community in the real world seems to trend to nice, but online seems to trend the other way. 00:02:49.047 --> 00:02:50.895 That's the end of Featured Links. 00:02:52.295 --> 00:02:53.574 Now, the Photo section. 00:02:54.174 --> 00:02:56.166 My favorite picture from the last week. 00:02:56.666 --> 00:03:16.687 We typically visit Gooseberry Falls in the summer. This is our first time in the Spring when the snow melt is strong and the water is rushing down the falls. It was impressive to see the falls at it's strongest. It is also amazing that this shot is with my iPhone, not a fancy rig on a tripod with an extended exposure. 00:03:17.187 --> 00:03:22.199 May 3, twenty eighteen at 12:17 PM Gooseberry Falls, Two Harbors, MN. 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:24.843 That's the end of Photo. 00:03:26.243 --> 00:03:27.482 Now, the Links section. 00:03:28.082 --> 00:03:30.740 Commentary on interesting links from the week. 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:37.827 GitHub's refurbished San Francisco headquarters is designed for inclusivity — Quartz at Work work.qz.com. 00:03:38.327 --> 00:03:49.189 The pictures of this space look amazing. I love the light walls. This is the first I have heard of a company considering their diversity objectives in space layout, and it makes a lot of sense. 00:03:49.689 --> 00:03:54.798 When Your Employees Post Passwords Online — Krebs on Security krebsonsecurity.com. 00:03:55.298 --> 00:04:00.973 Services that offer both private and public functions can easily leak private information out. 00:04:01.473 --> 00:04:12.201 Quote. KrebsOnSecurity spent the past week using Google to discover unprotected personal Trello boards that listed employer passwords and other sensitive data. End quote. 00:04:12.701 --> 00:04:20.485 The Uber example is not rare. A solution to this is to write small jobs to insure compliance with your security and governance processes. 00:04:20.985 --> 00:04:28.232 Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google | April twenty eighteen | Communications of the ACM cacm.acm.org. 00:04:28.732 --> 00:04:41.529 The Lessons and Conclusions section of this are most interesting. The rest is worth scanning for interesting sections. The lessons are applicable to any type of process that you want to add to a coding workflow. 00:04:42.029 --> 00:04:46.458 Amazon launches kid-focused Prime Book Box subscription www.imore.com. 00:04:46.958 --> 00:04:49.157 New subscription service from Amazon. 00:04:49.657 --> 00:05:05.202 Quote. After signing up for the service, you'll create a profile for your child to ensure they get the books best suited for them. Books you're offered are based on your kid's age, and all of the titles are handpicked by Amazon Books editors. End quote. 00:05:05.702 --> 00:05:13.671 Once Amazon knows your kids and their ages (plus whatever other data) they can also market you with all sorts of other parent purchases. 00:05:14.171 --> 00:05:18.611 Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS blog.github.com. 00:05:19.111 --> 00:05:27.556 This is a great add to GitHub Pages! There are so many sites running on this and they can now be made secure. I just wish they defaulted it to on! 00:05:28.056 --> 00:05:32.112 Anatomy of a Program in Memory | Many But Finite manybutfinite.com. 00:05:32.612 --> 00:05:46.117 These days we tend to spend most of our computer time far away from the hardware. I find it fun to dive into the occasional article that goes into detail on how the computer in your lap or in your hand works at a very low level. 00:05:46.617 --> 00:05:53.844 WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com. 00:05:54.344 --> 00:06:11.966 I don't think there is going to be a line of people forming to feel bad for Koum and his 19 billion dollars that he got from selling. It is incredibly naïve if they felt that selling to Facebook was going to continue the strong privacy and encryption stance that WhatsApp historically had. 00:06:12.466 --> 00:06:15.721 Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write – Monday Note mondaynote.com. 00:06:16.221 --> 00:06:23.796 Jean-Louis Gassée (one of the former Apple CEOs) giving a recap of the 21 years of Jeff Bezos shareholder letters. 00:06:24.296 --> 00:06:28.829 Unlearning toxic behaviors in a code review culture medium.freecodecamp.org. 00:06:29.329 --> 00:06:44.048 Nicely put together list of Do's and Don'ts for conducting code reviews in a way that helps and improves your culture. This is a topic more should be written about. Reviewing someone else's work without regard has a lot of downside potential. 00:06:44.548 --> 00:06:48.298 Incident Management at Netflix Velocity (video) www.infoq.com. 00:06:48.798 --> 00:07:17.007 I like the stated goals of incident management: Short, Unique, and Never Forget. I've seen many incident management processes and I don't know that many of them state their goals up front. They are often assumed. They also enumerate the strategies for those goals: Engagement, Communication, Coordination, and Memorialization. I like the clarity of goal versus strategy. Often times communication is stated as a goal, not a strategy, of incident management. 00:07:17.507 --> 00:07:23.461 CRISPR-Cas9 Improved 10,000-Fold by Synthetic Nucleotides | GEN www.genengnews.com. 00:07:23.961 --> 00:07:31.752 After reading A Crack in Creation I continue to find updates on CRISPR interesting to follow. CRISPR seems like an incredible technology. 00:07:32.252 --> 00:07:37.673 The Best VPN Service: Reviews by Wirecutter | A New York Times Company thewirecutter.com. 00:07:38.173 --> 00:08:04.431 VPN services used to be the domain business alone but with more focus on privacy, less trust of the providers that bring us our connectivity, and more security issues I know a lot of people are buying their own VPN services. This is the most comprehensive and researched view of VPN services I've seen to date. I personally use Encrypt.me which is bundled in with Eero Plus, but I have had a number of issues with it. 00:08:04.931 --> 00:08:13.283 Humans broke the internet, understanding them better might help fix it — SAGE Ocean | Big Data, New Tech, Social Science ocean.sagepub.com. 00:08:13.783 --> 00:08:18.550 Pretty accurate description of some of the promises of the Internet and the reality. 00:08:19.050 --> 00:08:45.639 Quote. This great leveler of opportunity has resulted in some of the most overweening monopolies the world has ever seen. This medium of unfettered self-expression has delivered oppressive surveillance and invasions of privacy of a kind that were previously the sole preserve of police states. This enabler of a better informed, more engaged citizenry has instead come to be seen as subverting democracy itself. End quote. 00:08:46.139 --> 00:08:58.256 This article advocates to being more social science to the technology of the internet. It certainly can’t help, but it’s hard to see how that is going to address the advertising biased attention economy. 00:08:58.756 --> 00:09:03.363 Event Sourcing made Simple – Kickstarter Engineering kickstarter.engineering. 00:09:03.863 --> 00:09:21.474 This is one of the most approachable descriptions of Event Sourcing and the key concepts behind it I have ever read. The animated diagrams help as well. Kickstarter’s specific implementation is very Rails and ActiveRecord heavy, but shows a lightweight application of the concepts. 00:09:22.874 --> 00:09:24.121 That's the end of Links. 00:09:25.521 --> 00:09:26.746 Now, the App section. 00:09:27.346 --> 00:09:28.967 Drafts 5: Capture ‣‣ Act. 00:09:29.467 --> 00:09:30.571 by Agile Tortoise. 00:09:31.071 --> 00:09:51.303 Drafts, where text starts. Quickly capture text and send it almost anywhere! Drafts lets you turn text into action – it’s a quick notebook, handy editor, and writing automation tool, all in one. Instead of tapping around other apps, capture in Drafts first. Open it and write right away, then do something useful with your words. 00:09:51.803 --> 00:10:16.570 In the Weekly Thing from July 22, twenty seventeen I highlighted Drafts 4. Recently Drafts 5 was released with significant new capability. Drafts is one of those iOS applications that you start not knowing what to do with it, and then it becomes a key application that you do a ton of different things with it. I personally love it's dictation capabilities on both my iPhone and my Apple Watch. 00:10:17.070 --> 00:10:18.414 Free 4/5 stars. 00:10:19.814 --> 00:10:21.140 That's the end of App. 00:10:22.540 --> 00:10:24.190 Now, the Breadcrumbs section. 00:10:24.790 --> 00:10:27.325 Additional links of interest from this week. 00:10:27.825 --> 00:10:29.920 First, xkcd: IMHO (xkcd.com) Awesome. 00:10:30.420 --> 00:10:34.259 Second, 0.38 Second Rubik’s Cube Solve (youtu.be) Amazing! 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:43.941 Third, google Cloud Platform Blog: Kubernetes best practices: Setting up health checks with readiness and liveness probes (cloudplatform.googleblog.com). 00:10:44.441 --> 00:10:50.753 Fourth, announcing Stack Overflow for Teams – Joel on Software (www.joelonsoftware.com) This makes sense. 00:10:51.253 --> 00:11:00.299 Fifth, nest Cam versus WyzeCam: Clash of the connected cameras — iMore (www.imore.com) I’m amazed at how good the WyzeCam did at a fraction of the cost! 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:04.599 Sixth, GraphQL College - Practice GraphQL (www.graphql.college). 00:11:05.099 --> 00:11:15.232 Seventh, google Cloud Platform Blog: Announcing Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring: Comprehensive Kubernetes observability from the start (cloudplatform.googleblog.com). 00:11:15.732 --> 00:11:26.419 Eighth, leveraging Log Streaming to Build the Best Dashboards, Ever (tech.target.com) Nice post by Target outlining how they leverage streaming log activity. Includes samples. 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:33.999 Ninth, elo Rating System Implemented in Single SQL SELECT | Elliot Chance (elliot.land) People do wild stuff with SQL. 00:11:34.499 --> 00:11:44.890 Tenth, how to use macOS High Sierra to take screenshots and grab video from your Apple TV — Apple World Today (www.appleworld.today) Had no idea you could do this. Neat. 00:11:45.390 --> 00:11:53.420 Number 11, introducing the Kubernetes Podcast from Google — Google Cloud Platform (cloudplatform.googleblog.com) New podcast. 00:11:53.920 --> 00:12:00.636 Number 12, home | Automation Orchard (automationorchard.com) Comprehensive resource for automation tools. 00:12:01.136 --> 00:12:04.632 Number 13, xkcd: Python Environment (xkcd.com) So true. 00:12:05.132 --> 00:12:17.649 Number 14, fortnite: Everything you need to know! | iMore (imore.com) Fortnite isn't my kind of game, but it’s coming to IOS and if you are curious what all the excitement is about this gives a little primer. 00:12:18.149 --> 00:12:25.353 Number 15, nina Makes | Builds | NeXT Computer Replica - Raspberry Pi Case (www.ninamakes.co.uk) This is so great! 00:12:25.853 --> 00:12:31.527 Number 16, rough.js - Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance (roughjs.com). 00:12:32.027 --> 00:12:39.667 Number 17, amazon to hire additional 200 people for Mpls. tech office - StarTribune.com (www.startribune.com). 00:12:40.167 --> 00:12:43.442 Number 18, unsubscribe Robot (unsubscriberobot.com). 00:12:43.942 --> 00:12:48.236 Number 19, the Appeal of Simplicity (ac1235.github.io). 00:12:49.636 --> 00:12:51.176 That's the end of Breadcrumbs. 00:12:52.576 --> 00:12:53.916 Now, the Status section. 00:12:54.516 --> 00:12:57.680 twenty eighteen-05-04 4:47 PM. 00:12:58.180 --> 00:13:00.878 Afternoon beverage at Castle Danger Brewery. 00:13:01.378 --> 00:13:04.594 twenty eighteen-05-04 4:01 PM. 00:13:05.094 --> 00:13:09.000 Family photo on shore of Lake Superior. Outside of Two Harbors. 00:13:09.500 --> 00:13:12.492 twenty eighteen-05-04 3:24 PM. 00:13:12.992 --> 00:13:13.832 Left a cairn. 00:13:14.332 --> 00:13:16.980 twenty eighteen-05-04 2:12 PM. 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:18.311 Two Harbors, MN. 00:13:18.811 --> 00:13:21.955 twenty eighteen-05-04 1:27 PM. 00:13:22.455 --> 00:13:26.494 It seems bananas that there is a Banana Saver product one can buy. 00:13:26.994 --> 00:13:30.322 twenty eighteen-05-03 10:55 PM. 00:13:30.822 --> 00:13:38.310 It’s possible to make some pretty crazy stuff with Workflow and Pythonista on iOS. Improving my Weekly Thing automation. 00:13:38.810 --> 00:13:41.934 twenty eighteen-05-03 8:39 PM. 00:13:42.434 --> 00:13:44.408 Gooseberry Falls was amazing today. 00:13:44.908 --> 00:13:47.925 twenty eighteen-05-03 8:33 PM. 00:13:48.425 --> 00:13:55.858 Why does Microsoft OneDrive for iOS still not support the Files app. It should have been one of the first to adopt it. 00:13:56.358 --> 00:13:59.428 twenty eighteen-05-03 8:03 PM. 00:13:59.928 --> 00:14:11.498 When Twitter updates Terms of Service I get notices for multiple accounts that I deactivated/deleted a long time ago. Do others get this? Shouldn’t the accounts be deleted and no notice given? 00:14:11.998 --> 00:14:15.142 twenty eighteen-05-03 3:36 PM. 00:14:15.642 --> 00:14:21.556 North Shore requires a stop at Betty’s Pies. I’m a pie traditionalist. Blueberry, cup of coffee. 00:14:22.056 --> 00:14:25.248 twenty eighteen-05-03 1:42 PM. 00:14:25.748 --> 00:14:26.636 Lake Superior. 00:14:27.136 --> 00:14:30.086 twenty eighteen-05-03 1:12 PM. 00:14:30.586 --> 00:14:32.144 Snow hanging on up north. 00:14:32.644 --> 00:14:36.064 twenty eighteen-05-03 12:41 PM. 00:14:36.564 --> 00:14:39.310 Gooseberry Falls is roaring with spring melt. 00:14:39.810 --> 00:14:42.976 twenty eighteen-05-02 8:36 PM. 00:14:43.476 --> 00:14:44.868 Home Free stage photo. 00:14:45.368 --> 00:14:48.463 twenty eighteen-05-02 8:30 PM. 00:14:48.963 --> 00:14:57.019 Excited to see OmniFocus 3.0 for iOS ship date announced! Wonder why it’s not in App Store for pre-order. Instant buy for me. 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.436 twenty eighteen-05-02 7:50 PM. 00:15:00.936 --> 00:15:05.557 Whole family at Home Free concert in Duluth. (One of Mazie’s favorite bands!). 00:15:06.057 --> 00:15:09.178 twenty eighteen-05-02 6:30 PM. 00:15:09.678 --> 00:15:14.006 Trying out OMC Smokehouse in Duluth, and of course a Bent Paddle Kanū. 00:15:14.506 --> 00:15:17.698 twenty eighteen-05-01 8:48 PM. 00:15:18.198 --> 00:15:21.219 Going to learn some Cyrillic for my next trip to Kiev. 00:15:21.719 --> 00:15:24.905 twenty eighteen-04-30 7:34 PM. 00:15:25.405 --> 00:15:28.093 Gorgeous evening to sit outside and relax. 00:15:28.593 --> 00:15:31.785 twenty eighteen-04-28 9:05 PM. 00:15:32.285 --> 00:15:35.957 Cue Wonderwall! Nice win Minnesota United! #MNUFC 2-1. 00:15:36.457 --> 00:15:39.649 twenty eighteen-04-28 8:40 PM. 00:15:40.149 --> 00:15:44.163 This review could have gotten really ugly. Luckily went the right way. 00:15:44.663 --> 00:15:47.879 twenty eighteen-04-28 8:37 PM. 00:15:48.379 --> 00:15:49.940 GOAL!!!!!!!! #MNUFC 2-1. 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:53.583 twenty eighteen-04-28 8:33 PM. 00:15:54.083 --> 00:15:55.908 BOBBY!!! BOBBY!!! BOBBY!!! Nice save! 00:15:56.408 --> 00:15:59.155 twenty eighteen-04-28 8:00 PM. 00:15:59.655 --> 00:16:04.494 Halftime family selfie at Minnesota United #MNUFC v Houston Dynamo. 1-1. 00:16:04.994 --> 00:16:08.138 twenty eighteen-04-28 7:18 PM. 00:16:08.638 --> 00:16:12.054 MN United! Completely outplayed on that drive. Down a goal. 00:16:13.454 --> 00:16:19.363 That brings us to the end of the Weekly Thing, issue 52. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.