Interesting links of the week (2019 #4)

Here are some interesting articles and blog posts I’ve run into over the last week (January 21 to January 27, 2019):

Technology

• Cloud Irregular: The Creeping IT Apocalypse
• Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you
• The Realistic Guide to Remote Work
• Maintaining large JavaScript applications
• Do more with patterns in C# 8.0
• Creating a basic Stream Deck Emulator with Node.js
• Writing Maintainable and Readable Javascript: Design Patterns
• 15 Useful JS Examples of map(), reduce() and filter()
• Learn Node.js and MongoDB by building a URL Shortener app

Non-Technology

• “Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps,” says Basecamp CEO Jason Fried
• Working with distributed teams
• Keeping a Work Journal
• Plug, Play, Repeat: The Best Strategies For More Productive Focus Time

Random

• The history behind duct tape and what makes it a handy solution for just about anything (video with transcript)
• Does Society Need Andrew Dice Clay?
• Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This
• 8 Healthy Podcasts For Everyone
• Disturbing the silence
• Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
• Americans stopped buying homes in 2018, mortgage lenders are getting crushed, and an economic storm could be brewing