Wallstreet’s mini crash from last week is shaking the world. You personally might want to think what to do if things start to go south. This article is a good inspiration for it. It shows how the tech world / Bay Area isn’t prepared for it at all. 

Functional Programming is a topic feared, hated but respected by many.

This is a whole course on it using OCaml as an example, teaching pattern matching (OCaml’s strengths), recursion, currying and all the other fun things that are important to FP including list operations like fold left and fold right. Exercises round up the course. You will have to read OCaml but it will teach you to code better in your main language, too!

Who isn’t sick of Google Sheet’s script editor? Sheetfu interacts with Google Sheets with a simple, intuitive, and fast API and adapts the Google App Script API for spreadsheets, to Python. With Sheetfu, you can easily get or set cell values, background colors, font colors or any other cell attributes. Can be used to keep track of companies you applied to etc.

Worth a look for all Pythonistas!

Albeit the title is a bit sarcastic in times of COVID-19, it is true that Clojure is the only Lisp-based language that started to spread more than others. The article gives reasons why: Integration with the JVM, conciseness and solid language features.

Remote work is increasingly becoming a thing. Tulsa is a city that pays people to move there. An interesting idea that could also work in Europe because we also have many places that lack onsite jobs but are a cheap to live in.

A list of good tech podcast episodes of this week, including topics like “competing with Spotify”, and “Somebody somewhere is generating JS from Fortran”. Worth a listen!

Finally, you can put your uni knowledge about state-machines to action. Testing applications is crucially important to ensuring that the code is error-free and the logic requirements are met. This article suggests to cover test cases by modeling them with finite state machines. Have a look to get new ideas on testing.