Tasty Links #1

Over the past few weeks, I've come across some fascinating articles and videos, so I thought I'd share them with you. I had to come up with a title for this list and ended up with tasty links, for lack of a better name. Anyway, grab a cup of your favorite hot beverage and enjoy!

• Pondering the Fermi paradox: Where is everybody?
• What's the biggest number you can think of? Mind-blowing mathematics.
• Timezones make "What time is it?" a surprisingly difficult question to answer.
• Follow these Sass guidelines for more maintainable and scalable Sass.
• Not using Sass? There are good CSS guidelines, too.
• A fantastic visualization of how computers draw Bézier curves.
• Motivation is nice, but really, what you need is discipline.
• I put together a list of tech-related books I enjoyed reading.
• How to write the perfect pull request.
• Please, stop breaking the Web.
• Listen to .NET Rocks where Uncle Bob talks about software craftsmanship.
• Parallelism, asynchrony, and multi-threading aren't the same thing.
• If our past is any indicator, superintelligence is near.
• Bundling and minifying website assets is crucial. An introduction.
• What's the laziest thing you've ever done? This guy is lazier still.