SMASHED POTATOES — Sprouted Kitchen
Sprouted Kitchenby Sara Forte6 Jul 2020
There is more to say on this subject, and this will be clunky and too much and not enough but I need to start somewhere, even just for me.
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Signal Blogby Question authority1 Jul 2020
Sometimes people dive into Signal’s code looking for domain names, and then they send us screenshots asking if they should be concerned: We reply with a short explanation that lays out why there’s...
How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?
Dan Luu30 Jun 2020
Any time you have a benchmark that gets taken seriously, some people will start gaming the benchmark. Some famous examples in computing are the CPU benchmark specfp and video game benchmarks.
Changing the Interview Process during Remote Working
SoundCloud Backstage Blog30 Jun 2020
Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge and Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results.
Introducing 🌈RainbowCake
zsmb.coby Márton Braun29 Jun 2020
Introducing 🌈RainbowCake 2020-06-29 • Márton Braun This is a project over two years in the making, and I’m happy to finally announce it to a broader audience. It’s been quite the journey.
iOS 14: Custom Accessibility Content
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)29 Jun 2020
Each year at WWDC Xcode Santa brings us exciting new APIs to play with, and this year our accessibility present is Customized Accessibility Content.
Making concrete is fun
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog28 Jun 2020
I asked my son what he wanted to do for his fourth birthday and he said “make concrete”! I suppose this was to do with my having waxed lyrical about how incredible concrete is. Stone!
Accessible HTML Toggle Button (Switch)
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes27 Jun 2020
Accessible HTML Toggle Button (Switch) Posted on Everybody loves toggle switch on mobile, or so I've heard. But if you're building a website, how do you reproduce this without excluding people.
Technical Interview Reform, Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results
SoundCloud Backstage Blog26 Jun 2020
Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge Among the engineering groups at SoundCloud, backend engineering has always had the highest number of open...
Technical Interview Reform, Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge
SoundCloud Backstage Blog25 Jun 2020
Most SoundCloud backend engineers have good feelings about the old backend engineering take-home challenge. It’s commonly been characterized as a fun, thought-provoking coding problem.
Free Office Hours for Non-Traditional ML Researchers
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)20 Jun 2020
This post was prompted by a tweet I saw from my colleague, Colin: I'm currently a researcher at Google with a "non-traditional background", where non-traditional background means "someone who...
Researchers and Founders
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman19 Jun 2020
I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these...
Fragment Lifecycles in the Age of Jetpack
zsmb.coby Márton Braun18 Jun 2020
Fragment Lifecycles in the Age of Jetpack 2020-06-18 • Márton Braun Fragments have… Complicated lifecycles, to say the least.
Curve Detectors
Distillby Nick Cammarata; Gabriel Goh; Shan Carter; Ludwig Schubert; Michael Petrov; Chris Olah17 Jun 2020
Every vision model we’ve explored in detail contains neurons which detect curves. Curve detectors in vision models have been hinted at in the literature as far back as 2013 (see figures in Zeiler &...
Introduction to MVVM pattern in Objective-C
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier14 Jun 2020
Introduction to MVVM pattern in Objective-C Even though the iOS ecosystem is growing further every day from Objective-C, some companies still heavily rely on it.
Announcing Twinagle: Twirp and Protobuf for Finagle
SoundCloud Backstage Blog12 Jun 2020
A previous post on this blog ended with the following paragraph: “We might also replace JSON with a more efficient serialization protocol like protocol buffers.
Learn How to Light.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)11 Jun 2020
SLC-2L-12: Two-Light Bike for the Bucks (Tiny speedlights FTW...) Have you tried to buy a new bike lately? Or even a used bike? The coronavirus pandemic has made them very tough to find.
Your next upgrade deserves an upgrade
Signal Blog9 Jun 2020
Signal iOS now includes a new feature that makes it possible to switch to a brand-new iPhone or iPad while securely transferring Signal information from your existing iOS device.
100 day challenge of data structure and algorithm in Swift
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier8 Jun 2020
Since January, I’ve been slowing down blogging for couple reasons: I started doubting about myself and the quality of my content but I also wanted to focus more on some fundamentals I felt I was...
North and South
Wokereadby Wokeread7 Jun 2020
Classics Book Review Author : Elizabeth Gaskell Genre : Literary Classic Fiction Original Publisher : Chapman and Hall Year of Publication : 1854 Number of Pages : 396 My Rating : 5 out of 5 My...