markjgsmith

Today’s links:

• Notes on Technical Writing - Summarises the main points from a variety of sources about technical writing, pretty useful if you have to write documentation, includes references to lots of useful booksmkaz.blog #

• Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling (of computing), has a focus on Mac related topics, uses lots of relatively short anecdotes rather than a longer, monolithic narrativewww.folklore.org #

• JobFunnel - Automated tool for scraping job postings into a .csv filegithub.com #

• Bruce Perens (OSI co-founder) quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing crypto license - The license blurs the lines between software and datawww.theregister.co.uk #

• Amazon is getting ready for everything you do online to be encrypted - They have implemented an open source replacement for the TLS component of OpenSSH called s2n and it is 6000 lines of code compared with 70000 lines of the old implementationwww.wired.co.uk #

• Restored complete curl changelog - A nice bit of tidying on a project a lot of us use on a daily basisdaniel.haxx.se #

• Distributing Software in a Post-Google Safe Browsing World - This appears to me to be quite an important issue, developers need to be able to distribute the software they are makingmedium.com #