January 2015

76 bookmarks saved in January 2015

Contributing to Atom

https://atom.io/docs/latest/contributing#git-commit-messages
Use the present tense ("Add feature" not "Added feature") Use the imperative mood ("Move cursor to..." not "Moves cursor to...") Limit the first line to 72 characters or less Reference issues and pull requests liberally Consider starting the commit message

The Internet's Original Sin - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041
It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web. Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. via Pocket

The Tapir's Tale: Lambda, Javascript Micro-Services on AWS

http://anders.janmyr.com/2014/12/lambda-javascript-micro-services-on-aws.html
Amazon just released a bunch of new services. My favorite is Lambda. Lambda allows me to deploy simple micro-services without having to setup any servers at all. Everything is hosted in the AWS cloud. Another cool thing about Lambda services is that the default runtime is Node.js!

Pain Really Does Make Us Gain - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/pain-really-make-us-gain
Or, as Bastian puts it, “Pain is a kind of shortcut to mindfulness: it makes us suddenly aware of everything in the environment. It brutally draws us into a virtual sensory awareness of the world, much like meditation.” The real bonding power of pain, then, may be in the pleasure we feel so acutely in its wake.