This calculator lets you tweak things like R0, incubation time, and hospitalization rate to see how affect the results. From the author:

At the time of writing, the coronavirus disease of 2019 remains a global health crisis of grave and uncertain magnitude. To the non-expert (such as myself), contextualizing the numbers, forecasts and epidemiological parameters described in the media and literature can be challenging. I created this calculator as an attempt to address this gap in understanding.

Export as a video or animated gif. Try it here.

Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled “Does it spark joy?” In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering manager at Netflix to return to being a software engineer. We examine the career trajectory of a software engineer and the seemingly inevitable draw to management for continued career growth. The idea of understanding “What are you optimizing for?” and whether or not what you’re doing truly brings you joy.

This.. is a bit of a bombshell:

The work of the npm team over the last 10 years, and the contributions of hundreds of thousands of open source developers and maintainers, have made npm home to over 1.3 million packages with 75 billion downloads a month. Together, they’ve helped JavaScript become the largest developer ecosystem in the world. We at GitHub are honored to be part of the next chapter of npm’s story and to help npm continue to scale to meet the needs of the fast-growing JavaScript community.

Software is eating the world. Meanwhile, Microsoft is eating the software world… one acquisition at a time.

Emily Robinson, co-author of the book Build a Career in Data Science, gives us the inside scoop about optimizing the data science job search. From creating one’s resume, cover letter, and portfolio to knowing how to recognize the right job at a fair compensation rate.

Emily’s expert guidance takes us from the beginning of the process to conclusion, including being successful during your early days in that fantastic new data science position.

Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub, board member at Netlify) joins the party and brings his new, opinionated, full-stack, serverless web app framework with him. Will Redwood help usher in the future Tom predicted back in 2018? We discuss that and a whole lot more on this must-listen episode.

I love internet history articles like this one from Cloudflare:

On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email). Attendees included the guy who would create Sun Microsystems, the guy who made Zork, the NTP guy, and the guy who convinced the government to pay for Unix. The problem was simple: there were 455 hosts on the ARPANET and the situation was getting out of control.

Itamar Turner-Trauring:

If you’re using Docker, the next natural step seems to be Kubernetes, aka K8s. Or is it? If you’re part of a small team, Kubernetes probably isn’t for you: it’s a lot of pain with very little benefits.

Justin Searls shares some advice on working from home that he’s acquired over 9 years of running a remote company. I like how he breaks it up into advice for humans (everyone), employees, and managers.

I mentioned this post in the resources segment of today’s JS Party recording all about WFH. That conversation hits feeds a week from tomorrow.

Dave Cheney talks to us about the Zen of Go (ten engineering values for writing simple, readable, maintainable Go code). What makes code good in Go? What guiding principles should we bear in mind when writing Go?

The philosophy behind Backstage is simple: Don’t expose your engineers to the full complexity of your infrastructure tooling. Engineers should be shipping code — not figuring out a whole new toolset every time they want to implement the basics. Backstage allows you add “stuff” (tooling, services, features, etc.) by adding a plugin, instead of building a new tool. This saves you work and avoids the need of your team to learn how to use and support yet another tool.

Read all about how Spotify uses this internally in this blog post.

This repository contains a single-file implementation of YouTube video downloader written in Go. It does not require any third-party packages, only built-in packages from the standard library. The code is compact and easily-readable.

Nowhere near the features of youtube-dl (which is like a swiss army knife for downloading videos off the internet), but cool nonetheless. You can read the entirety of GoTube’s source code in a single sitting, which makes it great for learning and tinkering.

Chris Manson:

A great beginners guide to ASTs, what they are and how to make use of them in your day-to-day lives as a developer! This workshop was originally planned to be in-person at EmberConf but now it’s free for everyone to try out 🎉

What exactly is ‘music source separation’?

If you have ever stumbled across those online videos of Freddie Mercury singing what sounds like an a cappella rendition of “Another One Bites the Dust” or a version of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” featuring only Flea’s distinctive slapped bass, then you’re already familiar with the concept of music source separation.

Facebook’s research team has figured out a way to do that “with an uncanny level of accuracy”. The technique is called “Demucs” (a portmanteau from “deep extractor for music sources”) and it’s out-performing other methods (spectogram analysis being the primary) by quite a bit. Code here.

Lens boasts:

• Amazing usability and end user experience
• Real-time cluster state visualization
• Resource utilization charts and trends with history powered by built-in Prometheus
• Terminal access to nodes and containers
• Fully featured role based access control management
• Dashboard access and functionality limited by RBAC

Video demo here.

Follow along with Christine Dodrill as she makes a small HTTP service using Rust and Rocket. This can also serve as a new Rust project primer too.

This is how I start a new Rust project. I put all of the code described in this post in this GitHub repo in case it helps. Have fun and be well.

Graphics reporter Harry Stevens from The Washington Post helps us see the impact of “social distancing” with this coronavirus simulator. He shows the effects of four simulations — a free-for-all, an attempted quarantine, moderate social distancing, and extensive social distancing.

Harry goes on to say, “moderate social distancing will usually outperform the attempted quarantine, and extensive social distancing usually works best of all.”

To simulate more social distancing, instead of allowing a quarter of the population to move, we will see what happens when we let just one of every eight people move.

Instead of blocking ads & trackers at the device level, Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that gets the job done at the network level. One benefit of this (in addition to ease of use) is that it can block content in non-browser locations like mobile apps and the like.

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak being declared a global pandemic and a national emergency here in the United States as well as many other countries around the world, it would be extremely difficult to have a serious conversation here on Brain Science that’s not colored by today’s very serious events. Mireille and Adam discuss the anxiety, fear, and panic that many may be facing. How do we navigate the unseeable unknown? How should we respond to change and the state of the world we are now living in?

Don’t panic. Prepare for change. Be adaptable. Be resilient.

Fantastic read. Hear from Seth on his thoughts on organizing, being productive, and shipping work that is important enough.

When I think about organizing I think about two things: who’s it for and what’s it for? To answer the first question: it’s for you.

To answer the second question, usually people say: it’s to lower the noise level in your own head.

And I think that definitely makes sense for some people.

But lowering the noise level is just not something I need. I need the noise. If there isn’t noise, I make some.