Weekly Bullet #23 – Summary for the week

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Technical :

• BPF(Berkeley Packet Filter) has come a long way from just being a packet capture tool to advance Performance analysis tool (EBPF – Extended Berkeley Packet Filter). Here (link) is an introduction to EBPF. Also here (link) is a talk on how BPF is used at Netflix.

• “Minimal safe Bash script template” – link . Because there is no such thing as “knowing enough of bash!”
• Kelsey Hightower is an inspiration. A writeup on how he made it from McDonald’s to Google (link). [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED] –> : A talk he gave about his journey a few years back here (link)
• [That time of the year!] : “Best talks of 2020” — link
• [Late news!] If you didn’t hear it already, Github has Dark mode now. – link

Non-Technical :

• [Another one] “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2020?” – some great recommendations here – link . Personally for me, “Sapiens” widened my horizon about evolution of Human Beings.
• “100 Tips for better life.” – link – I don’t agree with all of them, but most of these are thought provoking.
• An extract from the book that I am reading.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Happy learning and an advance Happy new year 2021!