This week has been pretty damn interesting at work. There are new plans in place and projects in the pipeline that are the kind of things a geek like me lives for. So I celebrated by having a curry with the family and am now paying for having a ghost chilli jalfrezi. Anyway, a mixed set of links this week (as ever, they got more techy the further down you go).

Amazon is hell to work at – Initially this looked like a hit piece, but with more and more corroborating stories it makes me glad I work at a company that optimises employee happiness just as much as client happiness.

DIY Overhead Control Panel – Now this is just sweet. An ergonomics designer has probably just had a heart-attack, but I love it.

Bootstrap 4 alpha – V4 already. Good to see the move to SASS and ES6, but it just means one more tool in the build chain.

Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet – My biggest takeaway from all of this? Sometimes it’s the simplest solutions that are the best. MySQL is well known and companies like Google and Facebook have shown it can grow to incredible scale.

Blot is the easiest way to blog – Something devs often forget is the barrier to entry for most people just to get something online. There are other Dropbox-publishing tools out there, but this has a nice touch to it.

Parens of the Dead – Wanna learn you a lisp for great good? Why not have some fun while you’re at it.

imba – I think their proposition sums it up best. Take Ruby and React and smash ’em together. I wouldn’t touch this myself as I can’t see it ever getting past the point of “interesting weekend project” for 99% of people.

Falcor – Having spent the past few months working on very content-heavy sites, I can attest to the fact that data is the only thing that matters in a system. Falcor looks like a nice route for getting what you need, quickly and with minimal fuss.

Eve Version 0 – Fifty years of programming and we’re still just writing stuff out as text. Eve probably won’t be the solution, but at least it’s highlighting the problems.

PS4 – Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about how security works on the PS4.

Reaching the MACH layer – And last but not least, the very lowest level of IPC on OS X. Dive in.