The Nonintuitive Bits

1Password, please do not do it, there is still a time to change your mind Synology is the way Toyota doing crazy things (again) Hydrogen is not that clean

We talk about the numbers Google's Jeff Dean says every engineer should know, mise-en-place for your notes, and the darker side of working from home Resources: Jeff Dean's numbers Mise-en-place for knowledge workers by Tiago Forter Apple says in-person work is essential

All about windows 11 How does Android works in Windows 11 Windows 11: The operating system for hybrid work and learning Supernote - For people who write - Digital notepad

Apple now has your id Focus! After-hours emails are now illegal Apple has tried and failed

The most beautiful ROM emulator of all time, is crypto currency for real or a scam, and the maker's way to digitize books at home

DarkSide ransomware servers reportedly seized, operation shuts down Free Your Music Apple Music and Lossless Audio Google I/O 2021

IBM’s first 2nm chip previews the processors of tomorrow Apple M2 chip reportedly enters production in time for 2021 MacBook Pros NVIDIA Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm Server CPU For Use In Big AI Systems CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022

How to be more assertive, and dealing with teammates who might be a bit too assertive.

Horribly designed UI, and the principles of motivation Show notes: Citibank's $500 million lesson on the importance of UI design The UX of Lego Interface Panels Book: The Design of Everyday Things Book: Drive, the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Today we are going to cover: 20k! VPN between Home and GCP PiHole What is MLOps and how is it related to DevOps MS Flight Simulator is coming to Xbox Series X

We talk about: How do folks proved their value to their management chain? Bottoms up vs top down selling Asking for what you want And, of course, some gamestonk

Why education is so Antifragile? How to make it Antifragile? Kovalevskyi Academy as a solution Lambda School Home office setup that we have Parler is no longer with us

Feeling energized by your work, managing teams on a death march, and how the game Factorio is like software engineering. Resources: Zain's newsletter Do work that energizes you Positive moods make you smarter Learn to not suppress your own ideas Factorio

Slava got a new Mac Mini with M1 GeekBench 5 shows that the new MB Air with M1 faster than almost any Intel-based models (comparable with iMac / Mac Pros) Slava's personal results also show the same speed Intel has a HUGE problem with 10nm Docker on M1 does not work, yet HomeBrew also not yet TensorFlow for M1 already here! Slava's list of top apps for the Mac arq Little Snitch iStat men...

How to make better group decisions? How do you understand what your management chain actually values? And how can you better retain what you learn? References: Get into the leader's head by Alex Danco Start with Principles technique by Shreyas Doshi Incorporate Space Repetition and Reflection by Zain Rizvi

Our main topics of the show: request to remove (from github) the SDK that allows users to download videos from the YouTube Cruise One is coming to SFO Google Duplex been updated Hummer is back Didi's IPO in HongKong News source: TL;DR bot

We ask "when is establishing psychological safety more important than holding people to standards?", discover some time  zone madness, and hear the principles Jeff Bezos relied on when deciding Amazon's business model. References: Falsehoods programmers believe about timezones Nailing the things that never change

Our main topics tonight: Wikipedia did it Amazon allows you to pay with your hand OpenAI and Azure are now best friends No new gasoline cars in CA after 2035 Amazon now has a game subscription service Windows XP source code has been leaked

How we got into software engineering. sending a bat signals to attract like-minded people, and building your personal network. Show links: https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotion by Charity Majors Interviews with the Masters, book by Robert Green https://lethain.com/network-of-peers by Will Larson

Snowflake IPO - a group of cloud service startups are coming to the market. Linux OS is once considered safer than MS Windows. Is that true? Do you enjoy working from home? Will it revolutionize the tech industry? Show links: Warren Buffett invested Snowflake IPO Linux servers and workstations are hackers' next target The future of tech hubs

iOS 14 is here Apple vs EpicGames Rus: a new git 101 course from Slava Best meeting hardware in the world Nikola track never worked WeChat and TikTok might be banned

Today: Communication and building for customers It's impossible to over-communicate. Think repeating a message five times is to much? Try repeating it twenty one times instead! Not all features you build will bring paying customers. Sometimes there might be people who really want it, but they're not the ones who can pay for it. If you want to sell, focus on features for people who can bu...

Zain's newsletter Book: " thinking fast and slow " Course: " learning how to learn " " How to fix Intel " Massive Data Breach Exposes Intel’s Intellectual Property for Its Flagship CPUs and SpaceX Sensors

We discuss the psychology behind gamification, how to be a senior and staff engineer, and how to have great ideas With returning guest host Yun Lu Show links: Zain Rizvi's newsletter Getting in the Room where it Happens The Psychology of Gamification The ultimate guild to becoming and idea machine What it's like as a senior engineer

Twitter claims 'social engineering attack' led to crypto scam tweets Hacker ransoms 23k MongoDB databases and threatens to contact GDPR authorities Windows DNS Server RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1350) Building a second brain