Weekly Random: #85

Excellent

• Sherwood Anderson’s advice to his son
• Best of Kickstarter 2012
• Coder cowboy’s life and career review for 2012

• Sophie Schmidt on traveling with Eric to North Korea

• What’s it like to rejoin society after a long prison sentence? – Michael Santo’s Answer
• What is it like to date up or down? – Alecia Li Morgan’s Answer

• Design Like No One Is Patenting — How SparkFun Stays Ahead of the Pack
• Great technique for teaching 3rd Graders about Programming

• I Knew You Were Trouble – Walk off the Earth Feat. KRNFX

Misc

• Interesting WSJ graphic
  • Reactionary blog post
    • Resulting discussion on reddit 

• Jeff Bezos: People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds
  

• Box Treatments: How to fix/build custom cases
• Modo – Modular Desktop Organizer (Kickstarter Project)

Technical

• iOS development tips I would want if starting out today
• Oracle’s deceptive practices with Java software updates
  • Related: If you need Java, use this download instead

Quotes

• “Going to Facebook has become the equivalent of opening the fridge & staring inside, even though you’re not hungry.” – Nick Bilton (@nickbilton)

• “A programmer had a problem, so he used threads, then he had two” – Unknown