Overprivileged trolls at Stack Overflow
It seems Stack Overflow has gone full Reddit in my absence: No[t] only is Stack Overflow plagued by overzealous trolls, but it is a community where the trolls are actually…
Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
Stanford researchers found that walking boosts creative inspiration. They examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person’s creative output increased by an average of…
Resilience
In order to look at how resilience gets “engineered” (if that is actually a thing) we have to look at adaptations that people make in the work that they do,…
Friday Linkdump is traveling through time for God but nobody understands it.
So many interesting things in the last two weeks!
Friday Linkdump
I doubt this will become a habit, but this week I’ve got a big backlog of notable things.
Good Haskell article
I still remember one of my biggest Haskell/Yesod “aha” moments: not only does Yesod make sure that routes in your HTML are type-safe, but even image files linked in tags…
Google Says No to More End-to-End Tests
Thus, to evaluate any testing strategy, you cannot just evaluate how it finds bugs. You also must evaluate how it enables developers to fix (and even prevent) bugs. Via: http://googletesting.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/just-say-no-to-more-end-to-end-tests.html…
The Hybrid Kangaroo Desk
A few people have asked me how I feel about my Hybrid Kangaroo Desk. The short version is that I love it. The slightly longer version: so, I’d known I…
New at WideTeams.com
After a few false starts, my other blog/podcast WideTeams.com is once again cranking away, with new episodes every week! Here are some of the recent episodes, in case you missed…
HTTP forwarding services for local Facebook development
I’m working on Facebook Open Graph features for a client, and developing these features requires enabling Facebook to somehow crawl my locally-served pages. I asked around for solutions to this…