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What do you do if you want to know how a bill in the legislature changed from one version to another? Software developers encounter this problem all the time with their code and use something called a diff tool to tackle it. My favorite is Kaleidoscope.

This review is not going to do The Rosie Project justice. Graeme Simsion has a gift for writing, creating characters, and drawing you in. Not since reading The Martian have I picked up a piece of fiction and been unable to put it down. The Rosie Project is a rare book that anyone who does not object to reading will enjoy.

We are now approaching four months of virtual Meetups for Code for Boston and have settled into our new format. Our projects are continuing and we have even spun up two new ones. Since the start of the organization our biggest source of new members has been Meetup.com. A week or two into virtual Meetups I noticed something: we stopped getting new members from Meetup.com.

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker gives you every reason you need to stop reading and take a snooze. The facts and ideas were interesting, but the writing was not. This skimmable tome tours a lot of research on sleep, some of it that might be questionable. Despite the criticisms, the message and conclusion are still solid: sleep is important and we should be getting more.

I have felt increasingly frustrated with twitter. For the longest time I have used it as a news source. I followed lots of journalists and for the most part twitter had done a great job of sending me to interesting content, like Facebook before it. Lately this has not been the case. Twitter has been prioritizing original content, and that content has been bad.