====== Week 2018-W46 in reading ======

This week’s list is rather short as I’ve been mostly skimming through short answers to simple questions about Clojure or Scala which I’m re-learning at the moment.

  * An article about [[https://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-07/growing-a-dsl-with-clojure|Growing a DSL with Clojure]].
  * Documentation of the [[https://github.com/clj-pdf/clj-pdf|clj-pdf]] package. I’ve already used it to generate wedding schedules when I was getting married but I needed to refresh it since I’m working on a concept of a Clojure-generated document at the moment.
  * I’ve also come across the [[https://github.com/frenchy64/Logic-Starter|Logic-Starter]] project which is a simple introduction to logic programming with ''%%core.logic%%'' Clojure package. Its [[https://github.com/frenchy64/Logic-Starter/wiki|wiki]] contains some interesting example applications. ''%%core.logic%%'' itself seems to be //very// interesting.

I’m collecting links to articles explaining how Google and other huge companies make privacy harder. [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/google-disables-domain-fronting-capability-used-to-evade-censors/|Google]] and [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/amazon-blocks-domain-fronting-threatens-to-shut-down-signals-account/|Amazon]] disabled [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting|domain-fronting]] some time ago. There’s also a good wrap-up of the large players’ practices: [[https://www.pcworld.com/article/2986988/privacy/the-price-of-free-how-apple-facebook-microsoft-and-google-sell-you-to-advertisers.html|The price of free]].

I’m also interested in ethics, so this title caught my attention: [[https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html|Is curing patients a sustainable business model?]].

I also enjoyed re-reading [[http://existentialcomics.com/comic/220|existentialism at the beach]].