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This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

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security and hardening options for systemd service units

A common and reliable pattern in service unit files is thus:

NoNewPrivileges=yes
PrivateTmp=yes
PrivateDevices=yes
DevicePolicy=closed
ProtectSystem=strict

Go (Golang) Standard Library Interfaces (Selected)

This is not an exhaustive list of all interfaces in Go's standard library. I only list those I think are important. Interfaces defined in frequently used packages (like io, fmt) are included. Interfaces that have significant importance are also included.

All of the following information is based on go version go1.8.3 darwin/amd64.

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

	CREATE TABLE books (
	isbn char(14) NOT NULL,
	title varchar(255),
	author varchar(255),
	price decimal(5,2)
	);

	INSERT INTO books (isbn, title, author, price) VALUES
	('978-1503261969', 'Emma', 'Jayne Austen', 9.44),
	('978-1514274873', 'Journal of a Soldier', NULL, 5.49),

	.
	├── books
	│ ├── handlers.go
	│ └── models.go
	├── config
	│ └── db.go
	└── main.go

	Africa/Abidjan
	Africa/Accra
	Africa/Addis_Ababa
	Africa/Algiers
	Africa/Asmara
	Africa/Asmera
	Africa/Bamako
	Africa/Bangui
	Africa/Banjul
	Africa/Bissau

	package main

	import (
	"encoding/json"
	"net/http"
	)

	func main() {}

	func healthcheckHandlerEncoder(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

	import functools

	from django.conf import settings
	from django.db import transaction, utils


	def durable(func):
	"""
	Decorator to ensure that a function is not being called within an atomic block.