Link roundup #10

Another big backlog of links from the past few months. I need to get better at sending these in smaller digests.

• Reverse engineering the 76477 "Space Invaders" sound effect chip from die photos
• Getting Started with Headless Chrome
• Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Domain Name System (DNS) Extension
• Software Developers After 40, 50 and 60 Who Hate Being A Manager
• Coding for SSDs – Part 1
• What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True
• "Sun decided that almost all Java errors must be recoverable, which results in lazy error handling like the above."
• Questions for our first 1:1
• Fuchsia: a new operating system
• Golang pkg/errors
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (well formatted)
• Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
• Intel's first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
• Apache Beam provides an advanced unified programming model, allowing you to implement batch and streaming data processing jobs that can run on any execution engine.
• The Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm
• Index 1,600,000,000 Keys with Automata and Rust
• Decentralized micropayments
• Management Is Dead, Long Live Management
• Better Compression with Zstandard
• Comparison of Hosted Continuous Integration products
• Viola is a tool for the development and support of visual interactive media applications. (1992)
• How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel
• Golang: Logging, interfaces, and allocation
• Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics.
• Annotation is now a web standard
• 120,000 consistent writes per second with Calvin
• Jepsen: CockroachDB beta-20160829
• You're better off using Exceptions
• TensorFlowOnSpark brings TensorFlow programs onto Apache Spark clusters
• Writing more legible SQL
• Documenting Architecture Decisions
• Let the Design Decision Stand
• New ASLR-busting JavaScript is about to make drive-by exploits much nastier
• Urbit is a virtual city of general-purpose personal servers.
• In Defense of C++
• Rust: Procedural Macros
• Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Building Reactive Systems
• Beringei: A high-performance time series storage engine
• SQL WITH: Performance Impacts
• My history with Forth & stack machines
• Modern C++ Features - decltype and std::declval
• Java Without If
• Things Every Hacker Once Knew
• Amazon Web Services' secret weapon: Its custom-made hardware and network
• The Monad Fear
• Becoming More Functional
• The Idea of Lisp