2 June 2020

36 links · Tuesday

joshiemoore/snakeware

A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace. Contribute to joshiemoore/snakeware development by creating an account on GitHub.

Wiki - PinebookProSixMonthsIn

There’s been a lot of excited reviews among the more nerdly segments of society about the Pinebook Pro, a 14-inch, $200 Linux laptop using an ARM CPU and generally open-source hardware. Rumors are it’s extremely solid for a piece of hardware that’s far below t…

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong - Oceans on Nautilus

Jerry Mitrovica has been overturning accepted wisdom for decades. A solid Earth geophysicist at Harvard, he studies the internal structure and processes of the Earth, which has implications for fields...

Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!

Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which…

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers – ImageView

Let us say you are an independent developer and it is time to publish your app to the world. To make it easier, you build an installer and start distributing it. A courageous early adopter downloads and runs it, only to be greeted by this strongly worded warni…

How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/linkus7/ After Years of having to deal with Sploosh Kaboom, the Battleship Minigame in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, we have finally found a way to beat it consistently. This is the result of many people's efforts to Rever…

Simplifying Board Games

A few years ago I wrote about how I'd been playing a simplified version of Carcassonne with Lily. We stopped for a while, but recently we've played simplified versions of Ticket to Ride, Race for the Galaxy, Guillotine, and Settlers of Catan. My general appro…

Seven years later, I bought a new Macbook. For the first time, I don

The 2013 Macbook Air is the best computer I have ever owned. My wish has always been that Apple did nothing more than update the CPU and the screen, touching nothing else. I was afraid the day of upgrading my laptop would come. But it came. My A

Getting Started With Cloudinary API (Live Stream)

The Cloudinary API is an amazing tool for managing your media (images, video, etc.). In this stream, Tamas gives me an intro to uploading and displaying images to/from Cloudinary. With the Cloudinary API, you can upload, transform, and optimize images and vide…

The danger of async/await and .Result in one picture – TooSlowException

Sync over async in .NET is always bad and there is no better advice than just to avoid it. What does “Sync over async” mean exactly? It happens if you synchronously wait on an asynchronous operation result with the help of .Result, .Wait or similar. Why is it …

Martin Heinz - Personal Website & Blog

Welcome to my personal website and blog, here you can find some information about me, contact, social media links as well as my blog posts

The Debian Administrator's Handbook

A reference book presenting the Debian distribution, from initial installation to configuration of services.

winget install learning | Windows Command Line

Last week we announced a package manager preview for Windows. Our goal is to provide a great product to our customers and community where everyone can contribute and receive recognition. The last thing that we want to do is alienate anyone in the process.

Introducing the Microsoft.FeatureManagement library

A couple of weeks ago, I needed to find a way to better manage new functionality for a feature that was not ready yet (it broke stuff). We didn’t know exactly when the feature would be shipped, but we also didn’t want to deal with branch and merging headaches …

Absentee and Early Voting | USAGov

Learn about absentee and early voting as alternatives to voting on Election Day. Find out the rules for your state.

Police brutality in Seattle

First off, a brief programming note: now is not the right time to continue with the usual topic of this blog: a lighthearted exploration of algorithmic complexity and optimization. We’ll get …

Balance fallacy - RationalWiki

“”There's a kind of notion that everyone's opinion is equally valid. My arse! A bloke who's been a professor of dentistry for 40 years doesn't have a debate with some eejit who removes his teeth with string and a door!