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This talk goes back to 2007, but still valid. Especially in this hype moment of Headless CMS apps popping up every single day, providing its own vision of Content Delivery API’s.

That moment is really the turning point,” Barbara Burian, a research psychologist at NASA who has studied Qantas Flight 32, told me. “Most of the time, when information overload occurs, we’re not aware it’s happening—and that’s why it’s so dangerous. So really good pilots push themselves to do a lot of ‘what if’ exercises before an event, running through scenarios in their heads. That way, when an emergency happens, they have models they can use....

Honeypot filmed a great documentary on Ember.js and the story of its development. Brings up so many good memories from 2016. Back then, I was taking up by an ambitious task of re-writing the checkout service of the company I used work in, from plain PHP with monstrous AJAX spaghetti code, to something more stable, and consistent. Seeing a pure MVC architecture in JS framework was a real surprise for me, as most of the codebase I faced back then, didn’t have any structure....

In 90s Irvine Welsh published “Trainspotting”, that soon became a bestseller and was filmed by Danny Boyle. An anthem of punk subculture, and anarchy portrayed by Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller following great cast. 20 years later, the story got its continuation in “T2: Trainspotting”. Same characters, 20 years older, and somewhat wiser, facing pretty much same problems and unresolved conflicts. One of the famous monologues from the first movie intro puts an end to what life film characters have chosen:

Great talk from Joe Armstrong on how they created Erlang, and how Programming community looked back in the days. Amazing, inspiring, worth watching:

Absolutely brilliant talk from Gary Bernhardt about JavaScript. Appearance of asm.js and all the low-level fun, that was going on in 2000’s. This science fiction / comedy / absurdist / completely serious talk traces the history of JavaScript, and programming in general, from 1995 until 2035. It’s not pro- or anti-JavaScript; the language’s flaws are discussed frankly, but its ultimate impact on the industry is tremendously positive. For Gary’s more serious (and less futuristic) thoughts on programming, try some Destroy All Software screencasts....

A quick story on how to do video to text conversion using Amazon S3. How lazy can you possibly get? Well, that’s my story on how to transcribe text from boring videos, and checking for the keywords, before even checking the video/audio. For the start, first cornerstone was to actually get the video. Most of the Streaming Players use HLS media player that heavily rely on m3u8 extension (those who remember playlists in WinAmp, might remember it), that sets base URL for all the video segments that will be streamed....

To be honest, I wasn’t paying much attention after the announcement of Gutenberg back in 2010. I never had any dramatic impacts by CKEditor embedded in the WordPress admin panel. I still think it’s one of the best examples of UI/UX text editors on the Web. The whole development process caught my attention due to React licensing issue that got the Internet buzzing about for couple of months. Eventually, Facebook changed it....