The Linker spent the entire past week playing with weird games, odd controllers, and even stranger nerds. It was a fun conference week, but now is the time to return to painting his astrological chart. Or rather, for him to get you your weekly links.

FingerIO…

Engineers shouldn’t write ETL…

Org Mode for Sublime Text 2 and 3…

What our team learned from a “surprise and delight” hack week…

Giving up on test-first development…

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms…

Scala.js for large and complex front ends…

F# and GPUs for life insurance modeling…

Today’s Random Wikipedia Entry: Catherine de’ Medici, Governor of Siena