I am 53 years old. Never in my life have I allowed myself to buy a car I truly love…until now. This is the story of how I allowed myself to make a huge purchase just for the joy of it. And it wasn’t even a purchase I’d intended to make. Let me explain. During […]
What does it take to address the collective trauma of a genocide? This week, we’re shining a light on the ghosts haunting a community of Cambodian immigrants living in San Jose, California. When author and reporter Stephanie Foo was researching for her memoir, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, she […]
I’ve changed the way I shop over the past few years. And although the shift has been subtle, I’ve found that I’m much happier with the things I buy. In the past, my approach to shopping was simple. If I wanted a new thneed, I would go to a store (or, with the advent of […]
Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs Source link
It’s always fun to unearth some esoteric piece of personal finance history. I know there are only a few nerds out there who care (hello, Grant Sabatier!), but those of us who care really care. Two years ago, I published an article exploring the history of financial independence in which I noted that the earliest […]
Report card: Java 19 and the end of Kotlin 20 September 2022 Three years ago I gave the talk “What’s new in Java 19: The end of Kotlin?” which forecasted what a future Java language would look like in September 2022 when Java 19 was released. Check your calendars, folks. It’s September 2022 right now […]
We’ve seen considerable adoption of our internal humane registry, Services Directory, since we sanitized ownership definition and introduced an easier-to-use user interface (UI) to our development infrastructure. Namely, managing backend feature toggles (or as we call them, rollouts) and visualizing interservice dependencies has been helpful in bringing engineering managers, product managers, and engineers closer — […]
Donny Wals returns to the show to talk about being an iOS developer freelancer, and to discuss some of the key new APIs, Swift language features, and frameworks that were introduced at WWDC22. Essential Developer: Join the iOS Architect Crash Course to accelerate your journey towards becoming a senior developer. It’s 100% free and held […]
This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America? Featured in this episode: Learn more: Late Period Pill Study When Abortion Was a Crime by Leslie J. Reagan “Before Roe: The Physicians’ Crusade” from NPR’s Throughline “The Racist History of Abortion […]
At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. From 2019 to May 2022, the market was down considerably with public valuations down 53–79% across the four sectors we were reviewing (it is since down even further). ==> Aside, we also […]