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A collection of recent articles from blogs that I follow.

• A reader asks how to avoid working for evil Dec 5, 2022 - Writing - rachelbythebay

• Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow Dec 4, 2022 - Netflix TechBlog - Medium

• Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money Dec 3, 2022 - Writing - rachelbythebay

• Short stories from outage reports Dec 3, 2022 - Writing - rachelbythebay

• Can You Separate The World Cup Fans? Dec 2, 2022 - The Riddler – FiveThirtyEight

  Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...

• Delimiter-first code Nov 29, 2022 - Brilliantly wrong

  Summary I argue for wider usage of delimiter-first in the code three friends [tic, tac, toe] becomes three friends ・tic ・tac ・toe. A new top-level syntax for programming languages is proposed to show advantages of this method. New syntax is arguably as simple, but more consistent, better...

• The night of 1000 alerts (but only on the Linux boxes) Nov 24, 2022 - Writing - rachelbythebay

• The Beauty of Brownfield Development Nov 23, 2022 - Gusto Engineering

  This blogs talks about the advantages of brownfield vs. greenfield development and how the Gusto Embedded team was able to quickly build out their product by taking advantage of both.

• How AI Text Generation Models Are Reshaping Customer Support at Airbnb Nov 23, 2022 - The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium

• Upward Mobility Nov 22, 2022 - The Pudding

  How does where you grow up impact your economic opportunity?

• Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop Nov 21, 2022 - The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium

• Another year, another post about fire Nov 20, 2022 - tomnatt.com

• Reliability stuff worth reading Nov 18, 2022 - Writing - rachelbythebay

• How Many Turkey Trotters Can You Pass? Nov 18, 2022 - The Riddler – FiveThirtyEight

  Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...

• Missing the point completely Nov 18, 2022 - Writing - rachelbythebay

• For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks Nov 17, 2022 - Netflix TechBlog - Medium

• Match Cutting at Netflix: Finding Cuts with Smooth Visual Transitions Nov 17, 2022 - Netflix TechBlog - Medium

• Gusto Eng Spotlight Series: Sofia Carrillo Nov 15, 2022 - Gusto Engineering

  First post in the series! Introducing Sofia Carrillo, who has been with us for 3 years on the Accountants Engineering team.

• Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud Nov 15, 2022 - Netflix TechBlog - Medium

• New Series: Creating Media with Machine Learning Nov 11, 2022 - Netflix TechBlog - Medium