28 May 2020

32 links · Thursday

RoughNotation

A small JavaScript library to create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page

The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms

Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the democratization of computers and screens. More info: Present And Cor…

Micro - Home

Micro's number one feature is being easy to install (it's just a static binary with no dependencies) and easy to use.

Life, part 13

Source code for this episode is here. Just as a reminder: I am developing my C# version of Stafford’s “QLIFE” algorithm by taking Abrash’s “keep the neighbour counts a…

AudioMass

AudioMass is a free full-featured web-based audio & waveform editing tool

The “OO” Antipattern

For those who only read above the fold: I don’t say that all object-orientation is bad! OOP, especially classical polymorphic OOP, has a well-deserved place in real code. I’m going to talk about a very specific antipattern that I see with some frequency: the u…

Stop Blogging on Medium if You Care about SEO [Tool Analysis]

Medium is an extremely popular blogging platform for both newcomers and expert tech-savvy bloggers. I've noticed the serious SEO related issue with using it as your main blogging tool. Read on if you are curious how Medium hurts your internet brand and what's …

Straight to Spam

Wanna send an email straight to someones spam

How to Use Windows Package Manager - Petri

Microsoft recently announced at Build 2020 that it is working on a native open-source package manager for Windows. Due to hit general availability in May 2021, Windows Package Manager is now accessible on GitHub and for Windows Insiders in preview. In this art…

The Day AppGet Died.

The story of how Microsoft embraced and then killed AppGet.

Introduction to UEFI: Part 1

Hello, and welcome to our first article on the site! Today we will be diving into UEFI. We are aiming to provide beginners a brief first look at a few topics, including:

Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr

Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their …