Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Films You Need To Watch If Your Want to Keep Your ‘Black Card’ During Black History Month
If you’ve somehow missed any of these titles, we’re not judging (out loud, that is). But consider this your official cinematic syllabus—just in time for Black History Month!
The Heartbreaking Fall of Debi Thomas: From Olympic Star and Surgeon to Living in a Trailer
In honor of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, we're looking at the life of Debi Thomas, the first African American athlete to medal at the winter games.
A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence — Four years ago, as Yan Junjie pitched his vision for artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group Inc. to China's largest internet companies …
WorkOS Pipes
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your back end requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh. That’s it.
Joanna Stern Signs Off From The Wall Street Journal
Joanna Stern (last week):
After 12 years with The Wall Street Journal, this is my final column and video as a full-time employee. I’m off to build something new and independent. I’ll still pop up on these pages and at WSJ events from time to time. Can’t get rid of me that easily! Before I go, I wanted to reflect on the past dozen years in tech — in a letter to my first-month-on-the-job self.
The video version of her sign-off column is worth it for the Velveeta gag alone.