Tony Finch's link log

https://ptomato.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/taking-out-the-garbage/

https://dotat.at/:/LGV83.html

Taking out the garbage: GC for GJS, the Gnome Shell SpiderMonkey JavaScript hooks.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/18/surveillance-marketing-too-much-personalization-can-hurt-your-brand/

https://dotat.at/:/ZPVJ6.html

Surveillance marketing: Too much personalization can hurt your brand.

https://baymard.com/blog/drop-down-usability

https://dotat.at/:/4DNL6.html

Drop-down usability: when you should (and shouldn't) use them.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07389-8

https://dotat.at/:/Q7CC3.html

Italy's olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/11/18/Post-REST

https://dotat.at/:/ZDT66.html

Post-REST.

http://composition.al/CMPS290S-2018-09/2018/11/17/time-is-partial-or-why-do-distributed-consistency-models-and-weak-memory-models-look-so-similar-anyway.html

https://dotat.at/:/D5E7R.html

Time is Partial: why do distributed consistency models and weak memory models look so similar?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/facebook-google-amazon-and-collapse-tech-mythology/575989/

https://dotat.at/:/92WMT.html

Facebook, Google, Amazon, railroads, and the collapse of the tech mythology.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing

https://dotat.at/:/N9PG2.html

The case against quantum computing.

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-wombats-cubed-poop.html

https://dotat.at/:/D5FEY.html

The secret of cube-shaped wombat faeces.

https://ayende.com/blog/185057-C/analyzing-the-github-outage

https://dotat.at/:/NWX9W.html

Analyzing the GitHub outage.