Ask HN: Are books worth it?

A well-written story, be it fiction or non-fiction can have a long lastig impact and even an emotional connection that I have personally never experienced with anything ‘online’.

Many related threads, e.g., Is RSS still worth the time?.

The Lisp curse. #lisp

Notes on Technical Writing.

Modern C for C++ Peeps.

Deadlines are bad and if you have those in your company you should probably go ahead and remove the “customer obsession” bullet from your leadership principles. Because believe it or not, your users don’t care about a missed sprint. — who are you trying to impress with your deadlines?

Happy new year 111 11100100!

Can someone explain to me why on earth macOS devs thought it would be good to fetch again and again software updates instead of storing them in a hash list? I start to be really annoyed by those perpetual reminders to update my Mac, notwithstanding the fact that I need to wait for the pref pane to be up and ready. Each time. #apple

So long Disqus, hello Webmention. (via Jamie Tanna)

Apple Platform Security (via Daring Fireball) (PDF). #apple

Homoiconicity isn’t the point (but read is).