Reading Log - December 23, 2022 (#11)
NASA's InSight probe has seemingly sent its last signal back to Earth. Some questionable security from iRobot, and a little bit of Twitter drama makes up some of this week's reading.
In Depth
Luke Plunkett: The Best Star Wars Video Game
I loved this game when it came out. I loved all the games that came out after this too. I wish that Disney would get a game developer to make a good sequel to the Dark Forces / Jedi Knight series.
Link Blast
👨🏼💻 Software Development & Design
How To Structure Your .NET Solutions: Architecture And Trade-Offs (James Hickey)
Microsoft plans pre-compiled queries for Entity Framework, and may replace old and crufty .NET SQL Server provider (Tim Anderson)
🖥 Technology & the Internet
How to rebuild social media on top of RSS (Jacob O'Bryant)
No, The FBI Is NOT 'Paying Twitter To Censor' (Mike Masnick)
Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked (Ax Sharma)
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? (Eileen Guo)
🎮 Gaming
Classic FPS Star Wars: Dark Forces has gotten a well deserved glow-up (CJ Wheeler)
📈 Business & Finance
The free market is failing us on antibiotics (Sabri Ben-Achour)
🔬 Science
After a long struggle with Martian dust, NASA's InSight probe has gone quiet (Eric Berger)
⚾ Sports
Steve Cohen's Mets spending spree and the ramifications for the rest of the league (Evan Drellich)
🎧 Podcasts
Marketplace Tech: ChatGPT can write English essays...quite well. How are teachers going to deal?
No Dogma #163: Jared Parsons, The C# Compiler, Part 1
No Dogma #164: Jared Parsons, The C# Compiler, Part 2
Hanselminutes #838: Cross-platform UIs with C# and Avalonia with Dan Walmsley
TED Radio Hour: What Leadership Looks Like
Hanselminutes #872: Hachyderm's Kris Nova on Running a Mastodon Server
🎒 Everything Else
Quitting is Underrated (Tim Harford)