Eagle.cool is a cool application! I can think of a lot of things you could track beyond image assets. I have a few friends that work in the prop industry and they have always talked about wanting a way to track props across productions.
https://vetted.ai - has been one of my favorites this year. It’s an AI shopping assistant. It’s especially useful searching for gifts for friends and family.
Why would anyone pretend to read Heart of Darkness? At 40k words it's one of the shortest novels ever written. The writing absolutely slaps. Anyone with any interest and experience in literature would find their first encounter with this book to be pleasant (except for the racism and colonialism).
And it's falling out of favor because of the racism and colonialism, so it's perfectly acceptable (in most literature circles) to say that you just didn't want to read that kind of crap and leave it at that.
I'm re-reading Heart of Darkness now and not likely to mention it to anyone because it's so regressive.
Heart of darkness is very short and fits into those great books like L'Etranger and the Old Man and the Sea that can be usefully read in an afternoon and give back way more than they demand from you.
Republic is quite long but very approachable and I really enjoyed it.
Again the mythical man month still holds true and it very readable. It's interesting for anyone interested in computing history as well as for it's key points on management.
I haven't met too many people in Math or Physics who care to signal that they've read foundational texts. Usually they flex by talking about the latest research or something difficult and just beyond the level of their peers.
Edit: I also love how all the discussion of this list is happening in response to the well-formatted quote rather than the original comment.
Constantly recommended on Twitter and I really wonder how many of those recommending it have actually read it.
Heart of Darkness is a short easy read in comparison. Moby Dick was another hard read and a real slog with only the occasional memorable passage to reward enduring the tedium.
In our software development we tag a git branch and code gets compiled and deployed and we would like to synchronize those systems.
The scripts might involve a change to how a user is added to the system and another might be a change for how a user is updated. The "update user" script cannot be deployed until the "add user" script is deployed.
Again, version control does not imply any particular deployment process, and deployment does not imply when scripts (or any code) gets executed. If you have all of these things mixed together -- version control, build/deploy, and execute -- then you should look at how you can separate those into discrete tasks so script A can't get run before script B. Preventing code execution dependencies like A must run before B shouldn't have anything to do with your version control system.
Your version control and deployment processes should move your applications from one working state to another working state. Temporal runtime dependencies such as "A must run before B" should get handled at run time, either by making A execute B when it successfully finishes, or writing a higher-level script that runs them in order only if both exist.
I really don't send many emails through Gmail, but when I do it is INSANELY accurate in its suggested sentence completion. Sometimes simple stuff like an address or whatever, but it can get really creepy when I'm sending something to my wife as a reference for some bill or interaction with our landlord and it knows exactly what I'm trying to say after just a word or two (sometimes, something like "Hey, I just..." and it has the rest of the sentence ready to go).
Cleaning my house for 10 minutes after getting home from work. It Has save me a significant amount of time on the weekend, by lowering the number of house cleaning chores I have to do. Sometimes I spend more than 10 minutes but I try to set that as the bar and sweep or fold laundry or load the dishwasher.
