13 June 2020

35 links · Saturday

#FuckDiscord | Cadence's Blog

Here's the index of all the sections in this post. The sections' ordering is not related to how important they are. If you only read one section, perhaps make it "Discord staff are absolutely untrustworthy", or perhaps "Actual despicable actions and despicable…

Fast 2D rendering on GPU

Previously on my quest for fast rendering of 2D vector graphics on GPU, I have posted a piet-gpu update and a deeper exploration into a sort-middle architecture. These intermediate results showed promise, but fell short of my vision for truly high performance …

I made an actual Drum Machine in Excel

and you can do more than just play drums with it download link in description Please consider supporting me on patreon: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dylantallchief Download Drum Machine (tested on Excel 2019/Office 365): https://drive.google.com/drive/f…

microsoft/PowerToys

Windows system utilities to maximize productivity. Contribute to microsoft/PowerToys development by creating an account on GitHub.

Publishing an NPM Package- Webinar

There are millions of packages on NPM that are used by developers, but have you ever wondered what it's like to publish an NPM Package of your own? Well, my friend, Brad Garropy, is going to join me to teach you how to do just that! Go to https://www.jamesqq…

How Many U.S. Taxpayers Are There?

According to the IRS, 143.3 million people paid federal income taxes in 2017 for a total of $10.9 trillion in adjusted gross income. Total income taxes paid equaled $1.6 trillion in individual income...

Adding Additional Mime Mappings to the Static File Provider

If you're using the Static File Provider in ASP.NET Core you might need to add some additional extensions that are not handled by default. For example, if you host a Blazor site in your own application an additional mime mapping for `.dll` is required. Here ho…

5 Common Feelings Being a Woman of Color in Tech

From the day I realized I was destined to be a coder, I knew I was going to be an underrepresented group in more ways than one. It started to hit me in the few classes I took throughout grade school, but I didn’t realize how much of a minority I was until coll…

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Alex Money

People who don’t use credit don’t need credit scores! It’s that simple. The credit card industry uses scare tactics to convince you that you can’t live without their stupid score. The truth is you don’t need one. Credit scores are how banks have bullied and br…

In Defense of Myers Briggs

The Meyers-Briggs Personality Indicator (MBTI) gets a lot of scorn:About 2 million people take it annually, at the behest of corporate HR departments, colleges, and even government agencies. The co…

Getting Started with Nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager. The Nix package manager has been, on and off, on my radar for a couple of years now, the premise of it, using “functional programing”-esque behaviours in order to create a reproducible package management, seemed ver…

Record charts

Standards and expectations have been squashed since covid began spreading. Business implications range from record breaking unemployment rates, savings rates, debt rates, hiring rates, and more. I&…

Dependence

Today’s innovations and progress swoop humanity into a neat cycle of anticipation and acquisition through deceptive notions that guide it to dependence. We’re sold on products and ideas through questionable but politically acceptable marketing tactics. We buy,…

Introduction to Bimachines

Bimachines are deterministic finite-state devices that represent the class regular string functions and are commonly used for text rewriting. What is fascinating about them is that they process the input text in both directions - from left to right and from ri…