Links

Must Read

• Paul Graham, What You'll Wish You'd Known
• John Allspaw, On Being a Senior Engineer
• Susan J. Fowler, The Ops Identity Crisis
• Patrick Collison, Examples of people quickly accomplishing abitious things together

Must Watch

• Randy Pausch, Acheiving Your Childhood Dreams
• David Foster Wallace, This is Water (commencement speech)
• Nancy Duarte, Common Structure of Greatest Communicators
• Douglas Engelbart, The Mother of All Demos (1968)
• Brene Brown, Why Your Critics Aren't The Ones Who Count
• David Henke, Learning to Lead
• Josh Clemm, The Wisdom of David Henke

Podcasts & Newsletters

• Pivot
• Stratechery
• Search Engine
• Song Exploder

Helpful Guides

• Unit Conversions
• Ian's Shoelace Site - Secure Shoelace Knot

Helpful Tools

• hey, http load generator
• pup, command line html parser
• jq, command line json parser

Random Notes

• Country Codes grouped by Continent
• Corrupt JPEG data: NNN extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9" error
• Make a Scanner Darkly image
• How to test tape library connectivity with NetBackup (command line)

Random Fun

• Nicolas Cage Pachinko Commercials
• Darmok & Jalad at Tanagra band poster
• Super Mario Athlete's Rag Air Platform sight-read; Tom Brier
• Charlie the Unicorn
• Futurama - Sorry, we don't take discover
• The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile
• Where GREP Came From - Computerphile
• Asian Jim - The Office

Friends

• Cockeyed
• Emotion Eric
• Cody Frost
• Samir Jafferali