Interesting links of the week (2020 #1)

After a long break since moving my family from Michigan to Ohio in August 2019, I'm back at it!

Here are some interesting articles and blog posts I’ve run into over the last week (Dec 30, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020):

Technology

• The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
• I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about living without them
• Proper software architecture for a new project
• Vertically Sliced Command Line Tools in C# and .NET Core 3.1
• My (Big) OSS Plans for 2020

Non-Technology / Random

• Retrospective Smells: Lack of Focus
• I Killed My Teenager’s Fancy College Dreams. You Should, Too.
• Kids’ Video Game Obsession Isn’t Really About Video Games. It’s About Unmet Psychological Needs.
• The Evolutionary Mystery of Left-Handedness
• Everyone Hates Open Offices. Here’s Why They Still Exist.
• I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left.
• 25 Words That Are Their Own Opposites
• People With Extreme Political Views Have Trouble Thinking About Their Own Thinking