Welcome to issue 94 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering system design, statistics, browsers, transformers, dealing with hard things, software design, FTX fraud 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
- System Design 101
- Beginners guide to building a hardware hacking lab by Wrongbaud
- Populating the page: how browsers work
- Introduction to Modern Statistics by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Johanna Hardin
- How Transformers Work by Madhumita Murgia
Work less
- Refactoring has a price, not refactoring has a cost by German Velasco
- Write more “useless” software by Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya
- Why software ends up complex by Alex Gaynor
- Why is Debian the way it is? by Lars Wirzenius
- Making Hard Things Easy by Julia Evans
Stay current
- A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- Causal inference as a blind spot of data scientists by Dzidas Martinaitis
- FTX – The fraud was in the code by Molly White
- Python 3.12
- Knuth’s 20 Questions for ChatGPT by Donald E. Knuth
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