Welcome to issue 107 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering full text search, GPU computing, learning on your own, software development habits, shipping at big tech, deadlines, open source washing, and so much more!
As always, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback! 🙂
– Ray and Maureen
Learn more
- Handling cookies is a minefield by April King
- Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm by Evan Schwartz
- SQLite Index Visualization by Anton Sukhachev
- What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing by Abhinav Upadhyay
- How to Learn Things by Yourself by Bruno H.S. Aguiar
Work less
- Good Software Development Habits by Zarar
- Stop making me memorize the borrow checker by Erik McClure
- How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows by Erik Dietrich
- How I ship projects at big tech companies by Sean Goedecke
- Unfortunate things about performance reviews by Rachel Kroll
Stay current
- When did estimates turn into deadlines? by Indu Alagarsamy
- We’re (Finally) Going to the Cloud by Wouter de Kort
- Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by Gwendolyn Rak
- Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution by Amin Vahdat
- Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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