We’re going to try something new, a roundup of interesting links that are being passed around by Wealthfront Engineers.
- A brief history of digital typefaces
- Language / Library / VM co-evolution in Java SE 8 by Brian Goetz
- A javascript type inference engine
- Alan Kay on complexity in software and how biology might help us, see also, his recent paper on the new environment he’s building, and some of the code
- Twitter’s scala school
- Comcast begins IPv6 deployment
- Rich Hickey, clojure’s creator on complexity in software
- A presentation on Netflix’s AWS platform