How the pandemic will end Zeynep Tufecki paints a grim potential end to the pandemic if we don’t get vaccines out as quickly as possible.

Software estimation the jacobian way Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote about his approach to software project estimation which is an important Project Management tool. His writeup is straightforward and clear, and the approach itself is the same: for each task, estimate size and uncertainty (as a multiplier). Then to estimate, …

Backlinks 2021-05-28 Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote about his approach to software project estimation which is an important Project Management tool. His writeup is straightforward and clear, and the approach itself is the same: for each task, estimate size and uncertainty (as a multiplier). Then to estimate, you can add …

River Runner: visualization of raindrop flow River Runner lets you place a raindrop anywhere in the US and it will show you where that water ultimately ends up.

The GOP pushing toward anti-democracy Greg Sargent writes about Georgia Secretary of State Raffensberger’s support to dig into votes in a GA county. Georgia did multiple hand recounts of votes, and all of these efforts to question the already-clearly-decided 2020 election threaten Democracy. But the whole point …

Backlinks 2021-05-26 Greg Sargent writes about Georgia Secretary of State Raffensberger’s support to dig into votes in a GA county. Georgia did multiple hand recounts of votes, and all of these efforts to question the already-clearly-decided 2020 election threaten Democracy.

grule rules engine in Go grule tries to implement ideas from JBoss Drools in a more Go-like way. I’ve never personally found a need for such a Rules Engine, but the continued existence of these things shows that someone is finding value from them.

Backlinks 2021-05-19 grule tries to implement ideas from JBoss Drools in a more Go-like way. I’ve never personally found a need for such a Rules Engine, but the continued existence of these things shows that someone is finding value from them.

Novelty means severity Dylan Morris has an essay in Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter about COVID-19 and how Novelty Means Severity is the key to the pandemic, because SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus (one our immune systems haven’t seen before): Unless we eradicate SARS-CoV-2—possible but not likely, …

Half a million lines of Go My latest blog post about Khan Academy’s move from Python 2 to Go reflects on our experience with Go after writing 500,000+ lines of it. I posted it on Thursday, but it showed up on Hacker News today. It also got comments in r/programming and r/golang. traVRsal traVRsal lets you …