The Weekly Squeak — Robocall hyphen king
A positive bonanza of delicious links for you this week! As I prepare for a long trip to Australia, there’s no interview segment this issue, but plenty more to whet your weekly whistle. We have a small handful of tech and ethics style topics, new tool recommendations, creating good community, and hyphens.
xx — Chinch
On the Trail of the Robocall King — www.wired.com
An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.
Coders’ Primal Urge to Kill Inefficiency — Everywhere — www.wired.com
For software engineers, lack of friction is an aesthetic joy, an emotional high, the ideal existential state. It’s what drives them — and shapes our world.
Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor — www.theverge.com
Is engaging inmates in work a good idea? What about work that could improve their employment prospects? Or is it still just cheap labour?
Spark for Android: Readdle’s take on the Future of Email — sparkmailapp.com
I love Spark! And it finally came to Android, which made me very happy :).
12 open source tools for natural language processing — opensource.com
Take a look at a dozen options for your next NLP application.
All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS — clagnut.com
Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens.
Did the Cryptocurrency Revolution Fail? — hackernoon.com
A slightly biased, but nonetheless interesting look at the Cryptocurrency “revolution” from the past year.
Drupal’s Angela Byron On Building A Diverse Community — angel.co
I was once very active in the Drupal community, and while it had its problems, it also had many positives that other tech communities are still grappling with.
