Ep 13 – 02 Mar 2017 – ..this weeks theme, travel..
…featuring type and coroutine astronauts Dave and Martin (thanks again guys) !!
Location: Hubbard and Bell,199-206 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7BD
Order: 2 x Pork Schnitzel, 1 x Bavette, 1 x Beef Burger
Review: 4/5
Comment: Really nice venue, but got gradually busier and louder. Apologies for the background noise in the second half, but have tried to clean it up. Anyway, back to the food. Good food, good location, good service. Sadly a discovered gem, but otherwise all the goods.
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News and Links
- General:
- World Book day selections!
- Sofia – Dark Matter: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Matter-Blake-Crouch/dp/1447297563/
- Dave – Microserfs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0007179812
- Martin – Phoenix Project: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/0988262509
- Kingsley: Diamond Age: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diamond-Age-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0241953197
- Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/
- Gender and tech
- Uber sexism scandal:
- Susan Fowler Rigetti’s original blog post: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber
- TechCrunch wrap up:
https://techcrunch.com/gallery/everything-we-know-so-far-about-ubers-sexual-harassment-scandal/slide/1/ - .. Not only Susan: https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-uber-survivor-c6d6541e632f#.hixq71l1f
- Blind chat keeping things moving: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/25/ubersecret/
- Leaked recording of uber outrage: https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/02/24/secret-recording-reveals-female-uber-employees-outrage-ceo/
- Can Uber turn it around? https://t.co/gpG944NhMo
- AND to top it all off… Travis Kalanick (Uber CEO) caught on camera arguing over fares with his Uber driver:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-driver-argument-video-fare-prices
- Rob Pike on gender splits in Astronomy and tech: https://t.co/GHHGgO009G
- Lego’s Women of Nasa: https://t.co/vJMYyw4YS0
- Codebar: http://codebar.io
- Code club: https://www.codeclub.org.uk/
- Makers Academy: http://www.makersacademy.com/
- ScalaBridge: http://www.scalabridge.org/
- Uber sexism scandal:
- Company with no leaders: https://t.co/NIRsFVepVB <- how’s this relate to DOA’s ? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization)
- ethic-AI:
- Teaching morality to robots: https://t.co/zYgsfdM4Tn (Revisit this with Anne Currie!)
- Your polite digital assistant: http://www.mitsuku.com/
- Udacity buys CloudLabs (makers of https://www.terminal.com/): https://t.co/KOOx4fzOqV
- RasPi Zero W is out: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero-w-joins-family/
- Session types megalist: https://t.co/AZaacjp26M
- TensorFlow – Image 2 Image – all the cats: https://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/
- GreenLightning – PoC Http Server doing 1M tps! https://t.co/nbkURr2UTu
- Engineering at Google: https://t.co/jOCriNo7NW
- All your agiles are belong to us: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2016/09/08/explaining-agile/#175a711a301b
- Return of Zalando Mosaic9! https://www.mosaic9.org/
- Space:
- New Planets found by NASA: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/834479166565318657
- Spacex to fly 2 people around the moon next year: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/27/spacex-moon-private-mission-2018-elon-musk
- More detail on Musks plans here: https://t.co/cnLrkq3W2A
- B-trees at the airport: https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792
Write up here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/software-engineer-detained-several-hours-us-customs-given-fairchild - Tech interview Kryptonite meme (e.g. https://twitter.com/tedneward/status/834171595706994688)
- From monoliths to functions: https://t.co/G1bfw1pRvW
- Machine Coder:
- DeepCoder: https://t.co/EVuCozQogm
- “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler
- Scala/FP related:
- Various Libs released:
- Akka http 10.0.4: https://t.co/yFuEc2fhO1
- Lagom 1.3.0 out: https://t.co/1ZZaTH4WNA
- Play 2.6.0-M1 out: https://t.co/wQQNeuS72a
- Helm – Scala client for Consul – https://t.co/uMfqAc7t7b
- Kotlin 1.1 released with coroutines: https://t.co/Ojr0FE5yMN
- Slick 3.2.0 released (with added mapTo macro goodness)
http://slick.lightbend.com/news/2017/02/24/slick-3.2.0-released.html - Scalafix 0.3 out: http://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/02/27/scalafix-v0.3.html
- Scastie! http://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/02/20/introducing-scastie.html
- Colour in the compiler: https://softwaremill.com/bring-some-color-to-scala-compiler/
- Refined support for Doobie: https://t.co/OgbnnBd104
- Scala Collections rework: http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2017/02/28/collections-rework.html
- COB compiler error meme: https://twitter.com/jboner/status/836679159392964609
- Ways to escape the Bakery of Doom: http://typelevel.org/blog/2017/03/01/four-ways-to-escape-a-cake.html
- Various Libs released:
- Blockchain/Privacy/UBI:
- Blockchain demo in a browser: https://anders.com/blockchain/
- Hudson Jameson on Ethereum roadmap: https://t.co/qXunMhiicu
- Akasha Seeking Whispers release: http://blog.akasha.world/2017/02/23/seeking-whispers/
- Enterprise Ethereum announcement:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj0ToyIsAkY&feature=youtu.be
- http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-intel-banks-form-enterprise-ethereum-blockchain-alliance/
- Possibly to rival hyperledger, a game changer ?
- InfoSec
- Sha1 smashed: https://t.co/MFreCRLI1Y
- CloudFlare hacked: https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/02/serious-cloudflare-bug-exposed-a-potpourri-of-secret-customer-data/
- Docker/Ops:
- ContainerSched CfP open: https://t.co/hZeQO9fglI
- Netflix security tool Stethoscope released: https://t.co/ElnWZah2Dn
- Intro to Nix: https://chris-martin.org/2017/nix-for-stack-users
- S3 regional outage:
- https://twitter.com/PeterSanchez/status/836638053758189568
- …bringing Docker hub down: https://twitter.com/TheSteve0/status/836644618758320129
- Thoughts by dancres: https://medium.com/@dancres/the-amazon-s3-debacle-f7705c8de096#.athw6g1gl
- And finally…
- Transport themed:
- Southern Rail game: http://games.ramjam.co.uk/srt/
- http://www.hendess.net/london.htm
- Chrome game: http://apps.thecodepost.org/trex/trex.html
- Flight Simulator in Excel
- Transport themed:
Events
- ScalaSphere – 2nd and 3rd March 2017 – Krakow, Poland
- Pipeline – 21 March – London
- Typelevel Summit NYC – 23rd March – NYC
- NEScala – 24th and 25th March – NYC
- Scale Summit – 24th March – London
- Cloud Native and Kube Con – 29 – 30 March – Berlin
- Scalar – 7 – 8th April – Warsaw
- ScalaDays US – 18 – 24 April – Chicago
- Progscon -28th April – London
- FlatMap Oslo – 2nd 3rd May, Oslo
- Underscore Adv Scala + Cats (training) – 11+12 May, London
- LX Scala – 12th May – Lisbon
- Scala Italy – 13th May – Rome, Italy
- Lambda Conf – 25 – 27th May – Colorado
- Scala Days EU – 30th May 2nd June – Copenhagen
- Typelevel Summit – 3rd June – Copenhagen
- ScalaWorld – 8 – 13th Sept – Lake District
- SwanseaCon – 25th & 26th Sept – Swansea
- Lambda World – 30th Sept – 1st Oct – Cadiz
- DockerCon Eu -16th – 18th Oct – Copenhagen
That’s all folks!