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• Bono plays With or Without You on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. This gives you a delicious sample of the book tour that was more of a Broadway show.
  • NPR Interview
  • Extended Colbert Interview
• Why Andor is one of the best shows of 2022 makes the case for enjoying this new entry into the Star Wars franchise.
• The beta version of Programming Ruby 3.2 is out.
• How to Open Source has been a nice introduction to contributing to open source projects by someone who has a lot of them under his belt.

One of the things I changed my mind about after joining TED was the value of code comments. TED codebases take advantage of YARD to annotate its code. This makes it easy to generate searchable documentation for every app we use. I then often import these document sets into Dash app.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Sir Jony Ive—as of 2012, the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire—has his name on 1,628 U.S. patents, part of 14,000 he holds worldwide encompassing both software and hardware.

Lots of interesting nuggets in this interview. One of the most interesting parts to me is that he can write an awful lot that he can’t draw. Apparently a picture is not worth 1000 words.

GitHub offers a cloud software development environment called codespaces. After seeing new volunteers at Code for Boston struggle with setting up a new Ruby on Rails web application, I decided to try something to make it easier. I setup codespaces to provide a one click way to create a working development environment.

I have recently been enjoying the Art of Product podcast by the founders of Tuple. If you are interested in software businesses and organizations, it’s worth the listen.