Too long; didn’t bother. Introduction to the series
When was the last time you regretted not having enough time to watch a conference talk, read the latest blog post or listen to a podcast episode? Various tech content is great and helps us learn and discover new ideas. However it has flaws — it’s difficult to intuitively understand it in our spare time.
The idea of the
tl;db(too long; didn’t bother) blog series is to present blog posts, podcasts and conference talks in a distilled form.
Every entry contains a url to the original content to let you have the full experience if needed and credits the author without whom this site wouldn’t exist.
My reasons for creating tl;db posts
- a podcast or conference talk is more of a show being focused on entertaining you to keep you awake and interested in the topic; laying out the main concept in bullet points would take 5, not 60 minutes,
- posts tend to go into details which are not relevant for grasping the main idea,
- listening to podcasts and conference talks is difficult, if the presenter has a non-native accent; it takes time to get used to how certain words are pronounced,
- making notes may not be possible while listening,
- during podcasts and conference talks sentences and thoughts are repeated which actually is a pattern for a good presentation.
The posts are a condensed form of what and how I understood the author.
Bold parts are what I think is interesting or important.
My own opinions and further explanations are in curly braces {}.
Comments are welcome.
Giving claps shows your interest in continuing this effort. Let me know!
So far following content has been tl;db’ed
Eric Brewer on The CAP Theorem, Then and Now — Episode 227 on se-radio.net
Gabriel Gonzalez on Configuration — Episode 375 on se-radio.net
Jeremy Howard on Deep Learning and fast.ai — Episode 391 on se-radio.net
