The Stack Overflow blog The Overflow has a very useful post by Zara cooper on how to write effective technical specifications, including a structure breakdown with a summatry of each section.
Andreeson Horowitz collected a great list of articles on leadership, strategy, operations and other topics. There is lots of wisdom here with principles to help leaders in uncertain times.
Andreas Zwinkau has a great list of Software Folklore tales on his website, like figuring out why a car is allergic to vanilla ice-cream, and how moving the controller during a save crashed a Crash Bandicoot save on the Playstation.
Ikea's research and design operation Space 10 has open sourced The Growroom, an urban farming pavilion designed to allow communities to grow food in urban spaces.
For those of us needing a productivity kick in the ass during COVID-19 lockdown, Tim Ferriss' interview with Adam Grant is for us! The podcast episode is extremely entertaining as these two giants of achievement and productivity have the chats about how to achieve more by hacking your outlook for personal growth, and how to be a nice person while doing it.
Hackster.io has a useful how to guide by Jen Looper describing the steps involved in building a bird identifier using a custom machine learning model running on a Google Coral Dev board with a Raspberry Pi Camera module.
The Pudding are running a live experiment to generate the opening bars of songs by brute force on piano, in an exploration of the infinite monkey theorem. The experiment has been running for 17 days and has currently cracked 18 songs including Still Dre and Für Elise. It is currently trying to crack Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.
We Make Good are selling face masks made by women from refugee backgrounds affiliated with The Textile Studio in Dublin, and are donating an extra masks to someone living in Direct Provision for every mask bought. Maith siad. Buy your mask here.
My amazing wife Jenn Kirby just released a new avant-pop EP called POPPED to fund materials for the 3D printing of PPE parts she is doing as part of the 3DCrowd.uk network of volunteer 3D printers. The EP is available to purchase as a digital download here.
