28 April 2020

23 links · Tuesday

Visual Studio Code Browser Preview Extension

Did you know you can view a live-reloading browser preview right inside of Visual Studio Code? Well, with the Browser Preview extension, you can do just that. Setting up your Visual Studio Code browser preview is just a few clicks away. Go to https://www.jame…

UTS #51: Unicode Emoji

This document defines the structure of Unicode emoji characters and sequences, and provides data to support that structure, such as which characters are considered to be emoji, which emoji should be displayed by default with a text style versus an emo…

Lewis Carroll's Pillow Problem - Numberphile

Featuring Alex Bellos. Check out Brilliant (get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More videos with Alex Bellos: http://bit.ly/Bellos_Playlist Alex's website: http://w…

Tmux for mere mortals

Tmux is great. Tmux defaults are not. How to make use of a brilliant tool without breaking your fingers?

First Release

I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of rust-analyzer — a new

B-trees

Let's invent B(+)-trees.

COVIDSafe

COVIDSafe helps you and all of our communities. Assist health officials to quickly understand and tackle the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

Distributed consensus is a fundamental primitive for constructing fault-tolerant, strongly-consistent distributed systems. Though many distributed consensus algorithms have been proposed, just two dominate production systems: Paxos, the traditional, famously s…

Feature Flags - Asp.Net Core - The Long Walk

Feature flags enable you to create a new piece of functionality in the main code branch, but behind a mask – so the end user doesn’t see the change. This means that you can decide at a later date to turn the feature on, or off. For example, say you wanted to m…

Memories - SizeCoding

Hello! My name is "HellMood" and this is not a usual wiki style article. It will be written from my point of view, in first person. This article is all about a tiny MS DOS program called "Memories". This program has a size of 256 bytes and won the "PC 256 byte…

COVIDSafe App Teardown & Panel Discussion

Join us for a detailed look at the Australian COVIDSafe app with some industry experts. Agenda: Troy Hunt : Discusison of privacy & identity - Considerations for people on the fence about using COVIDSafe Matthew Robbins: Initial App Teardown and Walkthrough Ge…

What's coming in Go 1.15

What's coming in Go 1.15 Go Remote Fest, 2020 - Daniel Martí

This Goes to Eleven (Pt. 4/∞)

Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2. I ended up going down the rabbit hole re-implementing array sorting with AVX2 intrinsics. There’s no reason I should go down alone.