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My initial thought was that this was yet another post about serverless!

I would recommend checking out Faktory ( https://github.com/contribsys/faktory ), by the author of Sidekiq. It's fairly new but looks interesting. For something production-tested a…

American Citizens Abroad ( https://www.americansabroad.org/ ) is another non-profit organization working on behalf of US persons abroad. They are doing some great (but probably ult…

While reading this, I couldn't help but think of Black Mirror S03E01 Nosedive. I understand the dynamics of all of the players involved in this, but I can't help but feel a little …

(list co-moderator with jetsnoc here) Well, it is currently a fully moderated list, and we will do our best to maintain the guidelines so hopefully you won't get any spam at all! R…

It's not that PHP (or virtually any other non-purposefully-arcane/obscene language) is inherently "terrible", it's just that the syntax, organization, standard library, and most of…

The primary thing that determines overall group performance (assuming no interpersonal biases like peer pressure or coercion, etc) would be the probability that any individual choo…

Except that going from 9 atmospheres to 1 is way more dramatic than from ~1 to ~0.

One of the most unintuitive concepts in thinking about Cold War strategy is the assertion that explicitly targeting the opponent's civilian instead of military targets was morally …

For you German speakers, this is a hilarious article (on the German answer to The Onion) about having to create a new verb tense in order to discuss the airport: http://www.der-pos…

Hyperion by Dan Simmons would make an /amazing/ miniseries. The narrative structure is apparently based on the Canterbury Tales and so each chapter is fairly self contained with an…

Studio Calico | Junior backend/Rails developer (FT) | Remote (KY or TN, USA) Founded as a scrapbooking kit club, we have grown into a force in the specialty papercrafting and memor…

If you liked Maciej's talk, you should definitely check out his blog: http://idlewords.com Warning: kiss the next several hours goodbye because he's simply an outstandingly interes…