I skimmed through dozens of newsletters this week. Here’s some interesting articles I found.

NOTE: Just because you read my summary doesn’t mean you understand the full point of original author. I recommend you read the full article if it’s for a topic that you feel is impactful to you.

Atomic Habits Visualized (Twitter thread)

• Atomic Habits by James Clear is a great book that talks about how to make good habits so that you can achieve your goals
• Each completion of a good habit is a “vote” for the person you want to become
• The best work comes from focusing on quantity
• Though I have not finished the book, the visuals in this Twitter thread are pretty good

A very nerdy perspective on naming things in programming (16 mins read)

• My takeaway: Code should read like English (as much as possible, language dependent)
• I skimmed through it but I will also read it slowly because this is important for long term code readability

Data centers at public pools keep swimmers warm (1 min read)

• A tech firm is setting up its small data centers at public pools across the UK
• Data centers need to cool down, pools need to heat up
• The generated heat from the servers heats up the pool at a lower cost
• This is a great example of what I like to call “Feed 2 birds, with 1 worm”
• I hope no one has to open up the server to chain a hard drive anytime soon!

Advanced interview questions for a Ruby developer

• Here’s a short quiz of advanced Ruby topics
• I got about 9 out of 14 correct. Some questions are a bit more open ended and my answer was different.
• I ran into Ruby super( ) again!
• I learned a bit about garbage collection in Ruby

Mini Robot Enters Blood Vessels, Completes Surgery (1 min read)

• A team of engineers in South Korea created robotically assisted magnetic navigation system for endovascular intervention (I-RAMAN)
• A magnetic robot can use a 3D map of the patient’s blood vessels to navigate autonomously and perform treatments
• I think this is really cool and I love to see technology like this saving lives