You can either get involved in your polity to help shape the future you want or accept what other people without your point of view decide for your future without asking you. Politics is just the methodology by which groups of people decide who gets what when. If you want things, maybe get involved, even if you just want to be left alone. It would be great if computers could go back to being a niche hobby for the socially distant. Too bad we let them eat the world.
This one definitely needs an introduction to help read it critically. This is part of the declassified Office of Strategic Services' Simple Sabotage Field Manual. It's goal was to outline the, innumerable simple acts which the ordinary Individual citizen-saboteur can perform to help the WWII war effort within axis aligned institutions while trying to hide behind plausible deniability. Essentially, weaponize incompetence. When reading this, stop and think about the point. Not only about what it says to do, but what the opposite of that involves.
Great bit of philosophy to rethink your metric for action. Doing nothing is usually better than being busy doing nothing of value or being fully engaged in doing the wrong thing.
I really wish I had something like Jai's use block. When you dangle a function out there that only one location's supposed to call, you just know someone will add it to their code to spite you.
Great rundown on common places to get better JavaScript performance. I really hope it goes without saying that you have to profile your actual code and not just rely on these micro-benchmarks. That said, micro-benchmark write-ups are a great place for inspiration for things to try in your own code.
