10x engineer

They studied professional programmers with an average of 7 years experience and found that the ratio of initial coding time between the best and worst programmers was about 20 to 1; the ratio of debugging times over 25 to 1; of program size 5 to 1; and of program execution speed about 10 to 1. They found no relationship between a programmer's amount of experience and code quality or productivity.

– Steve McConnell, Productivity Variations Among Developers and Teams: The Origin of 10x

Chalk it out

Mathematics has a craft aspect, especially in lectures. A good mathematics auditorium has six blackboards. A good lecturer can fill them one at a time, systematically, so at the end there's a whole panorama of what happened. With slide talks, you think your own thought for a minute you're dead. Because it's gone.

Prof. David Eisenbud

Solving Allocation for everything on-demand

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190606-the-maths-problem-that-modern-life-depends-on

Reasons why JPA and Hibernate should be phased out

https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/5nz5nq/reasons_jpa_and_hibernate_should_be_phased_out/

Abstraction

Abstractions should generally fit the common-sense use-cases and "just work".

- MasterLJ

Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests starting September 30th, 2020

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=6776

A short list of common mistakes in PostgreSQL

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This

Resource for Benchmarking JS libraries

https://www.measurethat.net/Benchmarks

Humans are friction-obsessed. Tech should remove the right kind of friction

https://medium.com/s/user-friendly/the-power-of-inconvenience-f0ae1773dd77