The Daily Index — Wednesday, September 25, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PRODUCT AND DESIGN TASTE

Taste, a crucial asset that designers, developers, founders, and creators rely on in their work, is one of the few qualities that manages to elude commodification. Certain types of media can be consumed to develop taste. To develop taste, read a wide variety of books, critique and digest products, and understand that there's always something to learn from experts in your field. Diversity often helps refine taste.

docs.google.com · 7 min

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IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED: WHEN NASA NEARLY GAVE BOEING ALL THE CREW FUNDING

This excerpt from the book 'REENTRY: SpaceX, Elon Musk and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age' describes a meeting at NASA headquarters 10 years ago where agency leaders met to decide which companies should be awarded billions of dollars to launch astronauts into orbit. The decision boiled down to three players: Boeing, SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada Corporation. It came down to three factors, price, mission suitability, and past performance, with price being equally weighted to the latter two factors. The decision was close, with NASA officials nearly choosing only Boeing for the contract, but in the end, SpaceX was included.

arstechnica.com · 8 min

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THE STORY OF MIKE LYNCH CONTINUES TO GET WEIRDER AND WEIRDER

This thread provides a timeline of the story of Mike Lynch, who died on a yacht due to a 'mini tornado' after being found not guilty of fraud after 12 years of criminal investigation - the yacht may have contained encrypted hard drives holding highly classified information tied to intelligence services.

threadreaderapp.com · 3 min

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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ACCUSES VISA OF DEBIT NETWORK MONOPOLY THAT AFFECTS PRICE OF ‘NEARLY EVERYTHING'

The US Justice Department has sued Visa for creating an illegal monopoly over debit payments by imposing 'exclusionary' agreements on partners and smothering upstart firms, resulting in consumers and merchants paying billions of dollars in additional fees.

cnbc.com · 4 min

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THE PYTHON PACKAGE INDEX SHOULD GET RID OF ITS TRAINING WHEELS

It would be hard for PyPI to survive without bandwidth donated by Fastly - this article provides a contingency plan for if corporations decide to stop offering free credits to the Python project.

kristoff.it · 10 min

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WP ENGINE SENDS CEASE-AND-DESIST LETTER TO AUTOMATTIC OVER MULLENWEG'S COMMENTS

WP Engine has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Automattic asking the company and its CEO to retract their comments calling WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and to stop making statements against the company.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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WILL A.I. BE A BUST? A WALL STREET SKEPTIC RINGS THE ALARM

Building too much of what the world doesn't need typically ends badly.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 9 min

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ARC CREATOR JOSH MILLER ON WHY YOU NEED A BETTER BROWSER THAN CHROME

Arc is a ground-up rethinking of the web browser that makes running complex apps as simple as possible.

theverge.com · 72 min