Oh, wow. Yep.

“We underestimate kids’ helpfulness but overestimate their emotional intelligence.”

Ancient Traditions Reveal 2 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent - Barking Up The Wrong Tree via Instapaper

What are the best questions you’ve (been) asked in conversation? What’s worked far better than the well-worn questions? Even if the questions are still about mundane things, how have they been phrased in a way that helps conversation flourish?

Feeding religion through a polarization machine

Ah “religion,” such a slippery, inescapable thing. To be clear, I think a lot of this essay is oversimplified, but I resonated with this quote below.

“We have taken religion, with its innate possibility for sectarian conflict, and fed it through a polarization machine. No wonder that today’s politics can feel like a wasteland of anguished ranting—and like we are in hell already.”

How Social Justice Became a New Religion via Instapaper

Not so much a “career overview,” but this is a great summary of what software engineers do on a daily/weekly basis! What Does a Software Developer Do? | freeCodeCamp

Check it out! The Free Learning List

Good news, bad news, and a few good suggestions from @ayjay blog.ayjay.org

“Christian nationalism” is an oxymoron.

Is there a name for when a back-end API paginates/batches responses as a middleman between its own front-end client and a third party? BE receives request from FE, makes request to 3P, receives response w/a “nextLink”, and passes both response and nextLink to the FE?

“Schleiermacher was no Gefühl…”

What’s the best thing you’ve ever read during a “dark night of the soul”?

Just, you know, trying to get my life in order

Good evening to everyone except for the half dozen or so bees that stung me while I mowed the lawn just now

You’d think that the Christian theological tradition has been around long enough to give most Xians enough discernment to spot the anti-Xian nonsense of Trumpism, Xian Nationalism, and other ideologies. But here we are. When can we judge the tree by its fruit?

What’s your favorite read-it-later service? Instapaper? Pocket? Something else? Bonus points if you tell me which RSS reader you integrate it with.

I’m on the lookout for helpful checklists like this “Test Cases” one from Code Complete, 2nd Edition, p. 532. If you’ve got helpful checklists, please share!

What are the most helpful checklists you’ve used? I’m on the lookout for helpful software development checklists, but also interested in others! Please share

What, if anything, is essentially hexagonal in the Hexagonal Architecture pattern? Explain it like I’m 5, and please don’t forget to say something about the number 6 (vs, say, any other number or corresponding shape!) Thanks! #softwaredesign 🐝

Which translations/editions of (1) The Illiad, (2) The Odyssey, and (3) The Aeneid should I buy?