My favorite links from this week:
- Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
- The Rise and Demise of RSS
- A video about how to accelerate a ping pong ball past the speed of sound (3m)
- An excellent collection of questions from Patrick Collison
- Slides from the Sorbet talk at Strangeloop (Ruby type checker from Stripe)
- Cloud Native Buildpacks — I have wanted this for so long
- A decent description of what happened with Tesla, Elon Musk, and the SEC
- The difference in the US between declaring war and making war
- Cool deep dive into the file format of the new macOS dynamic desktop images (and how to make your own)
- An insane story about how PLA infected the supply chain of server motherboards purchased by American companies to implant a tiny microchip that compromised the security of the board. Read this.
- Rails continues to increase the leverage on my time: ActionText destined for inclusion in Rails 6 (check the video demo)
- Tom Tunguz expands on AirBnB’s recent attempt to provide their bests hosts with shares in the company before they IPO
