18 February 2022

38 links · Friday

OCaml from the Very Beginning

A book for those new to programming, or new to functional programming, or just new to OCaml.

.NET MAUI Preview ... Number 13!

Can you believe we're on .NET MAUI Preview 13? As David says, we're getting so close to release he can almost taste it!

Collections and Primitive Obsession

Does the primitive obsession anti-pattern apply to collections? In other words, should you introduce a custom class for a collection?

100 Days of TypeScript (Day 7)

First of all, I’d like to apologise for the delay getting around to this post. There’s been a lot going on that’s got in the way but I haven’t forgotten about writing this s…

Execution > Strategy | Variance

A framework to help prioritize the many ideas that bounce around startups every day.

Technical Debt Sounds Dumb

Kam Lasater, wrote a great piece on technical debt. Primarily explaining how stupid you sound when most people try to explain technical debt to businesses-minded people. When we use the term technical debt with non-technical business colleagues, they assume, t…

10 Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A by @ttunguz

Over the last few years, I’ve been lucky to work with founders and management teams to sell about $5b of startups. During that time, I’ve observed a few things about M&A. Here are 10 of my learnings: Most acquirers have built a relationship with the acquisiti…

A Week Of Mathematical Outreach, The Good, The Ba(r)d And The Ugly

A week of mathematical outreach, the good, the ba(r)d and the ugly I like to talk about my research. I really do, even with people, who are not model theorists or not even mathematicians. It is fun to make up more or less unhinged ways of describing what you d…

Tech Interviews are actually a hazing experiment

Interviewing for a technical role is often a hazing experiment disguised as valid criteria to select a candidate rather then actual, effective process for hiring said engineer. Take a service like Karat, their entire premise is to help you find quality, candid…