{"id":2998,"date":"2022-03-05T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?page_id=2998"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:47:34","slug":"things-ive-been-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?page_id=2998","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;ve Been Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/12\/22\/679083038\/researchers-show-parachutes-dont-work-but-there-s-a-catch\">Parachutes don&#8217;t work<\/a> (NPR) (2018-12-22) &#8211; selection bias when conducting studies<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20240216-00\/?p=109409\">If you\u2019re just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly<\/a> (Raymond Chen) (2024-02-16) &#8211; the practice of making inert APIs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.3758\/BF03195929.pdf\">The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work<\/a> (2022-03-12) &#8211; the average person cannot accurately describe how a bicycle works, including people who use them regularly<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040422-00\/?p=39683\">Raymond Chen (linked from Joel&#8217;s article) on (mis) handling exceptions<\/a> (2022-03-05)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2005\/05\/11\/making-wrong-code-look-wrong\/&quot;&gt;https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2005\/05\/11\/making-wrong-code-look-wrong\/\">Joel defends Hungarian Notation and rails against exceptions<\/a> (2022-03-05)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamflew.com\/blue.html\">The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever<\/a> by Daniel H. Wilson (2025-10-06)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noperator.dev\/posts\/you-can-just-say-it\/\">You can just say it<\/a> by Caleb Gross (2026-06-02) &#8211; &#8220;&#8216;Humans are valuable.&#8217; You can just say it. As a human yourself, I advise you to. You do not need to qualify it.&#8221;\u00a0 You don&#8217;t need to justify human worth against A.I.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parachutes don&#8217;t work (NPR) (2018-12-22) &#8211; selection bias when conducting studies If you\u2019re just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (Raymond Chen) (2024-02-16) &#8211; the practice of making inert APIs The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work (2022-03-12) &#8211; the average person cannot accurately describe how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?page_id=2998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things I&#8217;ve Been Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2998","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4o3FW-Mm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2998\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}