Here, you can find the robots.txt parser and matcher open sourced by google. It is fun to see the code that read your robots.txt file and acted on it.

I really like working remotely from time to time as it boosts my performance and mood really good. I keep reading tons of content that supports the title of this post and another one of them is this one.

I don’t recommend working remotely 100% of the time as I think it impacts the health and social life in a negative way. At least if you really like your home (like me) and you start working from home, there’s a chance that you will never get out for extended periods of time and that’s not good. The best way to work remotely, like for many things, is to keep it balanced. You need to exercise, eat healthy food and socialize a bit to keep a clean and sane mind. Otherwise, you most likely will experience burnouts and will have a cloud of negative thoughts all the time in your head that you don’t know where it comes from. Keeping a balanced and healthy lifestyle is also not easy to accomplish. Everyone has to try and fail a couple of times to find the right way for themselves.

So, here’s some other posts about working remotely:

https://www.themuse.com/advice/3-facts-about-working-remotely-that-arent-too-good-to-be-true

https://remoteyear.com/blog/4-reasons-why-working-remotely-is-good-for-your-team

I came across this post on hackernews. Just like the title says, it lists many interesting papers from 1996 to 2018. I said in my first ever post that I am very into refactoring and clean coding these days so from this list one particular paper caught my eye: Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code written by Dan Gopstein, Jake Iannacone, Yu Yan, Lois DeLong, Yanyan Zhuang, Martin K.-C. Yeh, Justin Cappos.

They talk about something they call “atoms of confusion” that are the smallest sections in source code that have the potential to confuse developers. They have a scientific way of finding these and so help developers and/or companies improve source code and cut development costs coming from these confusions. Here is the paper: https://atomsofconfusion.com/papers/understanding-misunderstandings-fse-2017.pdf