• Thank you Opensource project letter – It’s a way to say thank you to Opensource creator/contributor, people can say gratitude to their favorite Opensource project, and sometimes the letter are quite hillarious.
• A CEO’s Guide to Emacs – Even tho i’m not a CEO or using EMACs intensively, this is a quite comprehensive reading, Emacs can be use with other thing, some people integrate it with mp3/Spotify, and other things that i cannot imagined.
• SAGE: A Test to Detect Signs of Alzheimer’s and Dementia – Self-Administered Gerocognitive Exam, I remember my grandmother had this Alzheimer, this simple testing could analyze and do some simple evaluation (you still nedd to go to the doctor for further evalution).

This cool video showed The Museum of Modern Art, what they do, what the prepared, in the video, there’s no cinematic or some hipster sound as background, and not even narrator to explain the whole thing, just raw situation and ambience of the MoMA.

• What Lego has learned from building social network for kids – It is amazing to see how a marketing platform to become a thing that every kids that play lego waiting, in that platform, kids around the world show case their ingenuity crafting Lego, i am fond of Lego. The experience that this team had was how they capture what their customer wants by using data, this data led development or mapping the roadmap put their priorities sorted out.

  “We used to focus on one part of data and that would become the truth. Everything would be based on that one fact and it would lead development. That does not work. To be data led, you have to look at small things, like the number of kids that fell out of a flow, or what’s affecting sign-ups,”

• Run the First Edition of Unix (1972) with Docker – i may not yet born that time of the year, even play with it, my oldest memory at my first interaction with computer was IBM XT. my brother who were showed me how the Lotus works, with PC-DOS 2 (or 3 i forgot).

• Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster – I’ve been reviewing the Firefox Quantum earlier, this is a much more fun way to ilustrate the new technologies behind new Firefox.

• New research: Understanding the root cause of account takeover – The paper published here by Google Research Paper, the paper showed the breach from various site, and also how it was sold in black market, motherboard wrote a how to not get hacked guide.

Let’s Talk about sleep

i’ve been talking about sleep deprivation on my dailybite issue #8, how it affect how we live, and society is changing, with all the gadgets, nightlife, always-on, fomo.

Electric lights, television and computer screens, longer commutes, the blurring of the line between work and personal time, and a host of other aspects of modern life have contributed to sleep deprivation, which is defined as less than seven hours a night.
But this has been linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity and poor mental health among other health problems. In short, a lack of sleep is killing us.

Other experiment also proving the same thing about the impact of sleep deprivation, mental sluggishness.

The sleep deprived have a higher risk of quite a number of conditions including heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and depression. Lack of sleep also has a deleterious effect on the brain, particularly on memory and cognition.

And this is much more scarier, Sleep debt is carcinogenic, watch the video here.

A healthy sleep, that’s what we need, according that article, women need at least 7.63 hours of sleep, and men 7.76 hours of sleep, so there’s no hack for long we can stay awake without disturbing our sleep behaviour, and no, you cannot take some drugs as a replacement.