HN blogs - 13/5/21
I got my genes sequenced for free and how you can too thanks to GDPR https://souradip.mookerj.ee/blog/free-sequencing (HN source)
Identifying Unlogged Web Site Traffic http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/horror/unlogged-website-traffic.html (HN source)
Why “Unqualified” People Sometimes Make the Best Hires https://www.betteroutcomes.xyz/why-unqualified-people-sometimes-make-the-best-hires/ (HN source)
“The Woman Who Made Van Gogh” https://kottke.org/21/05/the-woman-who-made-van-gogh (HN source)
I Used Clojure and Babashka to Make My Music Compatible with Old(ish) Car Stereo https://savo.rocks/posts/playing-new-music-on-old-car-stereo-with-clojure-and-babashka/ (HN source)
Introduction to Attention Mechanism https://erdem.pl/2021/05/introduction-to-attention-mechanism (HN source)
The linear oppression of note-taking apps https://maggieappleton.com/note-oppression (HN source)
Why load balancing gRPC is tricky? https://majidfn.com/blog/20201222-grpc-load-balancing/ (HN source)
Tether’s First Breakdown of Reserves https://amycastor.com/2021/05/13/tethers-first-breakdown-of-reserves-consists-of-two-silly-pie-charts/ (HN source)
The Richest Man In Babylon is a cool book https://rasulkireev.com/richest-man-in-babylon/ (HN source)
Scary Logic http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/scary_logic.html (HN source)
The room where it happens: How Rails gets made https://www.schneems.com/2021/05/12/the-room-where-it-happens-how-rails-gets-made/ (HN source)
Stop the MVP Madness Why MVPs don’t work for replacing existing systems https://dontmakemework.com/2021/04/22/minimum-viable-replacement-a-new-framework-for-retiring-old-products-2/ (HN source)
Pure HTML Share Buttons https://schier.co/blog/pure-html-share-buttons (HN source)