Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
textblob.readthedocs.org
Documentation for TextBlob, a Python library offering a simple API for sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction and translation.
yoctoproject.org
Home of the Yocto Project, an open source collaboration whose tools build custom Linux distributions and SDKs for embedded hardware, whatever the architecture.
github.com
Python distributed queue for huge numbers of one-off tasks, built on gevent and ZeroMQ with resumable iterators so the master never buffers the whole job list.
talkingquickly.co.uk
Sixty-three pieces of startup advice a founder would give his younger self, on shipping, customer development, team and business fundamentals.
martinfowler.com
Catalogue of patterns and anti-patterns for daily stand-up meetings, covering timing, format, focus and the ways the ritual degrades.
medium.com
Défend l’idée que l’économie collaborative prolonge le mutualisme du XIXe siècle, rendu possible par des technologies qui abaissent les coûts de transaction.
paulgraham.com
Essay arguing that early startups have to recruit users by hand and give unscalable personal service instead of waiting for organic growth.
paulgraham.com
Notes for a 2001 MIT panel on programming language design, arguing languages should target good programmers and favour brevity and user control.
paulgraham.com
Essay separating procrastination on errands, which frees time for work that matters, from avoiding real work altogether.
paulgraham.com
Essay on the three things a startup needs: good people, something customers actually want, and spending as little money as possible.
paulgraham.com
Essay on where startup ideas come from, arguing they are questions refined by building and by working with capable friends, not finished inventions.
paulgraham.com
Thirteen condensed rules for running a startup, from picking good cofounders to making a few users very happy rather than many users mildly so.
atelier.net
Survey of desert, floating and skyscraper city concepts, asking whether such designs are experiments in style or buildable answers to urbanisation and environmental limits.
paulgraham.com
Eighteen common ways startups fail, from founding alone to mismanaging investors, all of which reduce to not making something users want.
paulgraham.com
Seven lessons founders resist learning, among them releasing early, shipping constantly, and fearing other startups rather than established companies.
paulgraham.com
Essay arguing that companies working in less mainstream languages such as Python attract better programmers, since only enthusiasts learn them by choice.
lucumr.pocoo.org
Armin Ronacher announces that he is joining Sentry as a partner, and reflects on what it takes to turn an open source project into a company.
paulgraham.com
The five qualities Y Combinator looks for in founders: determination, flexibility, imagination, naughtiness, and friendship between cofounders.
