Sorting and information theory
Category: math
Reverse-engineering and comparing two Game Boy audio amplifier chips
The Nintendo Game Boy contains an audio amplifier chip for sound through a speaker or headphones. In this post, I reverse-engineer this ch...
Head Up, Head Down
There are few things more enjoyable to me than the mental solitude that hand-delivers interesting shower thoughts, or that let’s me sit in a bustling coffee shop contemplating life.
One Advantage of the App Store That’s Gone
The best part of the App Store, years ago, from this developer’s point of view, was that it was easy to charge money for an app. No need to set up a system — just choose the price, and Apple takes care of everything. So easy!
Kara Swisher: ‘Is It Finally Hammer Time for Apple and Its App Store?’
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/apple-app-store-hey.html
Proofs and computation with trees
In this post, I will make the analogy between trees and proofs and computation. Lately (after a long pause), I started reading Logical Foundations again and started re-doing the exercises for the l…
Lessons Learned: Giving Feedback as an Engineering Manager
“Alexey, do you feel the points you bring up during our post-mortems are productive?” my tech lead asked at our 1:1.
A NVIDIA Engineer In His Spare Time Wrote A Vulkan Driver That Works On Older Raspberry Pi
Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.
Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation - CHM
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell…
Juneteenth Conference - Track 2
https://www.juneteenthconf.com/
Virtual: Steve Collins - .NET Core Dependency Injection – The Booster Jab
Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 7:00 PM: Hello MK.NET folks,We're proud to present another virtual MK .NET meetup for July;As before, we'll be hosting on Zoom.We're excited to be joined by Steve Collins who will b
Juneteenth Conference - Track 1
https://www.juneteenthconf.com/
Bug #1463112 “Cat sitting on keyboard crashes lightdm” : Bugs : Unity
14.04, locked screen to go to lunch, upon return from lunch cat was sitting on keyboard, login screen was frozen & unresponsive. To replicate: In unity hit ctrl-alt-l, place keyboard on chair. Sit on keyboard. Resolution: Switched to virtual terminal, re…
Pair Programming - Dan Clarke
20 June 2020
Juneteenth Conference - Track 1
https://www.juneteenthconf.com/
The live coders conference
An online-only conference put on by The Live Coders team on Twitch! You may be wondering who we are! We are The Live Coders, an outgoing and enthusiastic group of friendly channels that write code, teach about technology, and promote the technical community.
Juneteenth Conference - Track 2
https://www.juneteenthconf.com/
Black Queer Living: A history of DIY culture in the Black LBGT+ community
What is DIY culture? How does DIY culture intertwine with the Black LGBT+ culture? Get these questions answered, and learn a few easy beginner DIY tutorials to do on t-shirts! No previous experience required! --- Harold studied computer science at the Universi…
What they don't teach you about fundraising as a Black Founder
useneu.com has made 3 attempts at raising capital for our business. Each attempt brought with it some valuable, and often unintuitive, lessons about the fundraising process. Join me as I recount our fundraising experiences and the main lessons learned after ea…
Empowerment to the People! What You Need to Know about Black People, Disability, and Accessibility
About one fifth (20%) of the global population lives with disabilities. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, 13.6 percent of Black and African Americans have a disability. Further, the unemployment rate for people with disabilities is almost doubl…
Combatting Bias in ML
In this talk I cover how to see the bias in your data and machine learning models. By giving examples from recent research on biased facial recognition systems as well as cutting edge explainability algorithms, attendees can expect clarification on what bias m…
From Combat To Code How Vets Who Code Trained Over 250 veterans how to Code and Get Jobs For Free
A detailed origin story of how I became known as the Web's Captain America and how Vets Who Code trains veterans for free. We will go over how we came to be, how we train our troops, our teams and how you can help us continue our mission. Jerome Hardaway is a…
Giving Back to Tech without Burnout
You did it! You’re a Software Engineer! After many hours of studying and learning difficult concepts, you made it through. Now you want to volunteer and give back your tech skills to a needed cause. Exciting, right? Wait…here’s a few tips to avoid giver burnou…
Journaling as a Dev
Are you working with impact and purpose? Are you solidly attuned on what you're doing month-to-month with your role? How difficult is it for you to track your accomplishments at work? If any of these questions lead to uncertain answers, then you should learn w…
Keynote: The Journey To Inclusive Innovation Incubator (In3DC)
How we ended up building an innovation space for black and underrepresented communities. Our focus on tech enabled startups and small business is driven by our roots in the development firm Clearly Innovative Inc, mobile partners for NMAAHC. --- Aaron Saunders…
The Ideal Community Model: Lessons Learned
There are many ways to push your career to a point it takes a great turn, but I found out in 2017 that community participation is a must. Community involvement can be anything from Open Source Contributions, Writing articles, answering questions on social medi…
Breaking into Tech From the Trenches
Bottom Line: Grit is required from historically underrepresented groups to change the demographic of Software Engineers and Developers. This talk will share my personal obstacles from a non-traditional career path (Veteran, women of color, mother and coding bo…
Your next open source contribution
Today Open Source is ubiquitous and comprises nearly 80% – 90% of the code in a “typical” application. There is a need to use Open Source to stay competitive, but what about the need to use open source to advance your career? In this talk, I will talk through…
Empowered By Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is something that the industry continues to represent as a negative. My take on this as a black woman in tech is we need to turn all of our disadvantages into growth opportunities. Adding structure to our learning path is the best way of remo…
Workshop: Docker and Kubernetes - 1/2 - NDC Melbourne 2020
<b>Module 1/4</b><br> <b><br></b> Containers such as Docker and container orchestration such as Kubernetes are hot topics right now, if you’re working on microservice architectures it very likely you’ll be looking at these technologies as they are a natural fi…
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