Friday Links: Engineering Edition
Friday Links: Engineering Edition
Here are the most interesting links this week from our engineering department. Thanks to Jeremy Mack. Collated by Chloe Olewitz.
- “Harvey Mudd College took on gender bias and now more than half its computer-science majors are women”
Across the US, only 16% of undergraduate computer science majors are women. But at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, the average jumps to 55%. “This year, for the first time, more women than men graduated with a degree in computer science.” (via Kevin Barrett) - “Make dope beats with ReactJS”
Ken Wheeler was a music producer before he was a software engineer, but even the transition to writing React code all day couldn’t keep him from the beat. “React-music lets you make beats using JSX code. It hooks into the Web Audio API to turn your code into beautiful music.” (via Aaron Ortbals) - “Undebt: How we refactored 3 million lines of code”
The Yelp engineering team created Undebt when they realized that removing a bad code pattern in their massive code base would waste time better spent on shipping new code. “Undebt is an elegant, fast, reliable tool for performing massive, automated code refactoring.” (via Drew Bell) - “Deploying React with zero configuration”
Beat javascript fatigue and keep up with the rapid expansion and growth of React. “Thanks to the zero-config foundation of create-react-app, the idea of zero-config deployment seemed within reach. So we created this community buildpack to experiment with no-configuration deployment to Heroku.” (via Adam Pash) - “Classic programmer paintings”
Well the paintings aren’t technically all classical, but this collection of art throughout the ages depicts software engineers as represented by some of the greats. Sort of. See for yourself. (via David A. Viramontes)