Refactorings Roundup 09/02/2018 — 09/15/18

We’re slowing this roundup post down to fortnightly, so it’s now twice as well curated  😎. We have 6 posts by friends of ribbonfarm, a dozen links from elsewhere (particularly good haul this fortnight), and a couple of short takes.

Bulk carrier waiting to load up near Seattle Pier 89

This roundup is a human-filtered subset of links and short takes aggregated by the Feed Fox bot authored by Zach Faddis, and running on the refactorcamp.org Mastodon instance. You can follow the bot directly if you want the unfiltered firehose.

New Posts

1. AWS Amplify, React, Babel, and Webpack Setup by @jamescgibson. Link
2. The Scent of Bad Psychology by putanumonit. Link
3. How to Beat Neo-Nationalism in Three Moves by @stefanozorzi. Link
4. Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics by @telos. Link
5. Destruction is a Choice by @vgr. Link
6. The Constant Consumer by Drew Austin. Link. ht @vgr

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Stuff We Read

1. Culture wars 2.0 and memetic tribes. Link. ht @vgr
2. “Leap seconds are far from the only ongoing uncertainty about time…” Link. ht @msweet
3. Earth’s Future: Planetary Park or World-Wide Exclusion Zone?  Link. ht @vgr
4. Can mindfulness reduce pain? Link. ht @aRandomCat
5. Podcast on Bayesian thinking among other things. Link. ht @bkam
6. Urban food production is always coming up against zoning laws. Link. ht @Bert
7. Brutalist websites. Design inspiration. Link. ht @mrgunn
8. The past was not as smelly as you think. Link. ht @adrianmryan
9. Another internet celebrity sees the light (video, on quitting the Internet). Link. ht @miljko
10. Tight vs loose and honor vs dignity cultures. Link. ht @vgr
11. Traditional Euro-bloc: what it is, how it was built, why it can’t be built anymore. Link. ht @Elmkast
12. A detailed assault on the book Sapiens. Link. ht @britt

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Short takes

In any online argument about a problem, there are some people who are only having the argument because they want to fix the problem, and there are other people who are only talking about the problem because they want to win the argument. — @nindokag

Irreversible choices have 2 aspects besides not being able to go back: the fateful option leading to uncharted regimes, and do-overs being costly/impossible.If future is like past, or you can do-over cheaply, irreversibility is moot. Like Coke vs Sprite at a vending machine. — @vgr

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