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What HN said
- rayalezDec 2017Here's a collection of my top audiobooks/podcasts that I think HN readers will love.
This is the best stuff I have discovered over the past 3–4 years, and I’m sure you guys will enjoy each of these books, so if you haven’t read some of them yet — I highly recommend you to check them out.
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Excellent audiobooks:
- Rework https://www.audible.com/pd/Rework-Audiobook/B0036FLXLQ
- Creativity, Inc https://www.audible.com/pd/Creativity-Inc-Part-1-Overcoming-...
- The Martian https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Martian-Part-1-Audiobook/B00B...
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Hard-Thing-About-Hard-Things-...
- Zero to One https://www.audible.com/pd/Zero-to-One-Notes-on-Startups-or-...
- On Intelligence https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V8LKTE
- The Design of Everyday Things https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Design-of-Everyday-Things-Aud...
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! https://www.audible.com/pd/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman-Au...
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow https://www.audible.com/pd/Homo-Deus-Part-1-A-Brief-History-...
- Atlas Shrugged https://www.audible.com/pd/Atlas-Shrugged-Part-1-Audiobook/B...
- Mapping Innovation https://www.audible.com/pd/Mapping-Innovation-A-Playbook-for...
- Ghost in the Wires https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Art-of-Invisibility-The-World...
- Actionable Gamification https://www.audible.com/pd/Actionable-Gamification-Part-1-Be...
- Algorithms to Live By https://www.audible.com/pd/Algorithms-to-Live-By-The-Compute...
- Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups https://www.audible.com/pd/Angel-How-to-Invest-in-Technology...
- Steve Wozniak autobiography https://www.audible.com/pd/iWoz-Part-1-How-I-Invented-the-Pe...
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth https://www.audible.com/pd/Traction-How-Any-Startup-Can-Achi...
- Mastery https://www.audible.com/pd/Science-Technology/Mastery-Audiob...
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Excellent podcasts:
- YCombinator: https://soundcloud.com/akharris
- Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast
- Syntax (React and WebDev) https://syntax.fm/
- Rationally Writing http://alexanderwales.com/rationally-writing/
- Audio version of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/
- Audio version of Rationality: From AI to Zombies https://from-ai-to-zombies.eu/
- Strongbad536Mar 2023- Techmeme Ride Home (https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/)
- Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod (https://techpod.content.town/)
- Pivot (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot)
- The Vergecast (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/the-vergecast)
- Decoder (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/decoder-with-nilay-patel)
- Daily Tech News Show (https://dailytechnewsshow.com/)
- Hard Fork (Casey Newton of Platformer and Kevin Roose) (https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork)
Going more specifically into Software
- Frontend Happy Hour (Ryan Burgess from Netflix and other smart SWEs/managers) (https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/)
- Screaming in the Cloud (Corey Quinn) (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...)
- Syntax FM (https://syntax.fm/)
- flanbiscuitMar 2023Related. Syntax.fm podcast interviewed the creator of Wordle[0]. In it he talked about seeing a talk[1] about adding "juice" and how it influenced some of the UX decisions for the game. I personally think that Wordle had the perfect amount a juice for what it was, a web game that involved text/reading.
I think it's nice to add some juice to website/apps but they are not games and I think should be kept at a minimum. Know your audience. I don't want any of my finance related apps full of unnecessary juice, but that doesn't mean I don't want feedback for any processes I'm waiting for. Sometimes apps try to be cool/edgy with fancy transitions and those things look cool the first few times I see it but get annoying after that because I'm having to wait for it every time. Anyways I am rambling but you get the gist, don't overuse juice and the level of juice depends on your audience and the nature of your product.
- crispinbFeb 2023No I was half-listening and think it was mentioned in a loose way, and I think I'm conflating it with some other mention in a different recent podcast so that's more than a few levels of looseness.
I've just scrubbed back through - the podcast was https://syntax.fm/show/571/supper-club-rust-in-action-with-t..., which follows the pleasing practise of providing chapters (yay). It was Tim McNamara speaking from about 12'40": what he actually said was that about half of Rust learners who do drop out fall away because of the purported difficulty of the language. Very different from my faux summary so apologies for the grievous misrepresentation.
I still find Rust as hard to use as others I've spoken to do though. I'm kind of keeping at it for reasons specific to projects I have in mind, as well as a certain dense stubbornness.
- davidsawyerJun 2020A 19-year-old[0] built a video call app[1] with WebRTC and open-sourced[2] it.
Here's a podcast interview[3] about how he did it.
[0]: https://github.com/ianramzy
[1]: https://zipcall.io
[2]: https://github.com/ianramzy/decentralized-video-chat
[3]: https://syntax.fm/show/256/webrtc-and-peer-to-peer-video-cal...
- plehouxJun 2020Co-founder at Missive, an email client built entirely in HTML/JS; Electron on desktop; Cordova on mobile.
You can try the app, it's way faster than Mail from Apple. Apple even featured the app multiple times on the mobile App store; again all HTML/JS.
Making fast software in HTML/JS is definitely possible.
An email client is mostly HTML/Style rendering so our use case might be more aligned.
You can learn more about how we made it fast by listening to :
https://syntax.fm/show/184/desktop-and-mobile-apps-with-a-si...