Link Post and Podcast Roundup: August 2016 Edition
More links for your enjoyment.
###Self-care matters: Pay yourself first My wife and I are trying the “Setup Formal Me-Time” part of this and it’s been good so far.
Your language isn’t broken, it’s doing floating point math. Computers can only natively store integers, so they need some way of representing decimal numbers. This representation comes with some degree of inaccuracy. That’s why, more often than not, .1 + .2 != .3.
This is a great breakdown of where floating point math falls apart. I remember this happening all the time in BASIC (which they’ve missed in the list) and C++ (which is included). I also love the domain name.
###Postcast: New Development on Old Systems: Exploring the NES in 2016 with Rachel Simone Weil
I love the idea and I wish I had the time to play with it…
###Podcast: Creating cross-platform Electron apps with Jessica Lord
Electron is the shell that the Atom Editor is built using which basically wraps Chrome in a nice Node.js shell. I really wish I had a project where I could use this.
###Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale
This is the story of how a company with nearly $400 million in assets went bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a failed deployment.
This is terrifying…
###This is what Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone I’m amazed at how much effort people put into these scams.
###World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly
###Rebuilding 200,000 lines of code from scratch: A review of a major software project
Every time I read a story about how someone rewrote their whole application I wonder how they were able to pass that off to the business owners.
Scott Keck-Warren
Scott is the Director of Technology at WeCare Connect where he strives to provide solutions for his customers needs. He's the father of two and can be found most weekends working on projects around the house with his loving partner.
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