Should I quit blogging?
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier24 Mar 2020
When I started this blog in 2012, it was at first to share solution to technical problem I encountered on my daily work, to give back to the community.
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top 11%Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton18 Mar 2020
18 March 2020 I want to remove Google as a single point of failure in my life. In the first blog post on this subject I detailed my setup for backing up Google Photos and Google Drive contents onto...
Visualizing Neural Networks with the Grand Tour
Distillby Mingwei Li; Zhenge Zhao; Carlos Scheidegger16 Mar 2020
The Grand Tour Deep neural networks often achieve best-in-class performance in supervised learning contests such as the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) To understand a...
Periskop: Exception Monitoring Service
SoundCloud Backstage Blog16 Mar 2020
Periskop is an exception monitoring service that we built here at SoundCloud. It was designed with microservice environments in mind, but it’s also useful for long-running services in general.
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
Dan Luu11 Mar 2020
I've been comparing notes with people who run corporate engineering blogs and one thing that I think is curious is that it's pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire...
Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits
Distillby Chris Olah; Nick Cammarata; Ludwig Schubert; Gabriel Goh; Michael Petrov; Shan Carter10 Mar 2020
By studying the connections between neurons, we can find meaningful algorithms in the weights of neural networks.
Thread: Circuits
Distillby Nick Cammarata; Shan Carter; Gabriel Goh; Chris Olah; Michael Petrov; Ludwig Schubert; Chelsea Voss; Ben Egan; Swee Kiat Lim10 Mar 2020
What can we learn if we invest heavily in reverse engineering a single neural network? In the original narrative of deep learning, each neuron builds progressively more abstract, meaningful...
The Guide to Accessible Web Components
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes10 Mar 2020
The Guide to Accessible Web Components Posted on Web Components are a newly supported standard. They're a great match for Design Systems because they're futureproof and work with any framework.
Artbruary
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog7 Mar 2020
For the month of February, friends challenged me to produce a piece of art every day. I’m a little surprised but quite proud to report that I did!
Coroutine Cancellation 101
zsmb.coby Márton Braun4 Mar 2020
Coroutine Cancellation 101 2020-03-04 • Márton Braun This article assumes that you already know the basics of coroutines, and what a suspending function is.
The growth of command line options, 1979-Present
Dan Luu3 Mar 2020
My hobby: opening up McIlroy’s UNIX philosophy on one monitor while reading manpages on the other.
JSON vs Property Lists, Revisited
The Atomic Birdhouse3 Mar 2020
In a previous post I wrote about How JSON compares to Apple property lists and the obstacles to converting data between them. That was a while ago but the post is still accurate, as far as it goes.
How (Not) to Build Datasets and Consume Data at Your Company
SoundCloud Backstage Blog3 Mar 2020
The topic of datasets is not new, and they have been successfully used at SoundCloud for analytics purposes for a long time.
Hard Startups
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman26 Feb 2020
The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.
4 Honeymoons and an Anniversary
Live Life Travelby Anne Gordon26 Feb 2020
It’s likely around the time when most of you are starting to think about your honeymoon. And while there is no right answer for everyone in terms of when to plan, we do have some general guidelines...
Getting started with PDFKit
The Atomic Birdhouse26 Feb 2020
In my post about my custom presentation slide app I mentioned that because of time constraints, I decided against doing my own slide layout.
Personal update
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes26 Feb 2020
Personal update Posted on I think I'm allowed at least one personal message these days. There's no thread or solid reasoning in this.
Executing commands from Gradle
Chris Keenan Codesby Christopher Keenan25 Feb 2020
Recently, I setup a system to automate the process of taking screenshots of an Android application. The system consisted of instrumentation tests, Gradle tasks, and a Fastlane command.
Constructing Kotlin Friendly Code
Chris Keenan Codesby Christopher Keenan25 Feb 2020
Kotlin is often lauded for it's conciseness and eloquent syntax, but often suffers from being confined to more limited Java coding conventions.
Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton19 Feb 2020
19 February 2020 I want to remove Google as a single point of failure in my life. They have two decades of my email. They have two decades of my photos.