The Weekly Squeak - Artificial Dominatrix

Articles from me…

I enjoyed this interview with Pierre, talking about their AI that composes music based on the inspirations you feed it.

Many developers know about linting their code for advice on best practices, did you know you can also lint text? I round up the best options.

Articles from others…

Yes, another native desktop app is replaced with a web application and its gazillion megabytes of memory usage. 😢

Finally the insatiable thirst for new features slows in realisation that fixing bugs is also worthwhile.

This was a great conversation covering how people with different opinions think about what they believe, and why trying to convince them otherwise is mostly pointless.

The first segment of the show is about a dominatrix that people pay to dominate their computers. Yup, you read that right.

I have read at least two of these books and like the sound of the rest, nice list!

Meetup was supposed to be different. Has its recent acquisition by WeWork changed the company forever?

Could modern data-driven startups run public transport networks better than the companies that currently do?