Favorites from June 2019

A collection of some of my favorite links, images, tweets and quotes from June. While these aren’t a comprehensive look at or summary of June 2019, they do capture the things that I found interesting, thought provoking, and/or cool over the past month.

Favorite Links

• The American Revolution with Joanne B. Freeman – Getting ready for the 4th. The first video of the top 5 tips for studying the revolution was particular interesting.

• [Animated Knots by Grog

  Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation](https://www.animatedknots.com/) – Refer back to this more than a few times a year.

• [Undervalued Software Engineering Skills: Writing Well

  Gergely Orosz](https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/on-writing-well/)

• [What does debugging a program look like?

  Julia Evans](https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/06/23/a-few-debugging-resources/)

• [“These are the two axes of professional design and engineering. Did you produce within the constraints? Did you deliver measurable results? That’s it.” – Constraints and measurement

  Seth’s Blog](https://seths.blog/2019/06/constraints-and-measurement/)

Favorite Quotes

• John Maeda on Twitter: “The right brain speaks the truth; the left brain makes the truth. Integrity is when you speak+make the whole truth.… https://t.co/iPniqOOlk0”

• wint on Twitter: “beanie babies are just bit coins in real life”

• Austin Kleon on Twitter: ““Your children are fine without advice & suggestions.”— sign at the #nycplayground on Governor’s Island https://t.co/RQuQmKwNZ2”

• Shane Parrish on Twitter: “Every choice you make is a step toward or away from the person you want to become. No single choice will get you where you want to go. Only repeated steps over time in the same direction will move you forward.”

• “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” – Seneca

— June 30, 2019