5 July 2020

35 links · Sunday

10 modern layouts in 1 line of CSS

In this dynamic talk, Una goes over the power of modern CSS layout techniques by highlighting a few key terms and how much detail can be described in a single line of code. Learn a few layout tricks you can implement in your codebase today, and be able to writ…

1-Line Layouts

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Beginner’s Guide To Abstraction – Pursuit of Laziness

In The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas introduced the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle. The rationale being that if you see the same code copy+pasted 10 times you should probably factor that code into its own method/class.

SemVer Considered Harmful | Joey Lynch's Site

In the past ten years or so, Semantic Versioning a.k.a “SemVer” has become extremely popular in the software development world. The idea is that libraries and services can convey information to users about how the application programming interface (API) of tha…

Eating local has a tiny environmental impact

There's a common misconception that eating locally produced foods is important from an environmental point of view. Even the UN tweeted about it. This is wrong. Transport makes up only 6% of the greenhouse gas emissions from food: Source: Our World in Data.The…

No, universities are not going away.

Recently on HN, Reddit, and even the New York Times, I’ve been reading articles and comments discussing whether or not COVID-19 is the death knell of in-person universities. They make some de…

How my article became one-hit-wonder on hacker news · Tomas Vik

Today I’m going to tell the story of fleeting success. You’ll learn how my article reached the hacker news front page. And how it stayed there for two whole days, changing my perception about what is achievable with my writing hobby.

Laptop battery insights – Blog of Christian Felde

Back in 2016 I mentioned that I started tracking my laptop battery statistics on my then new MBP. Well, now that laptop has reached EOL, with its batteries getting swollen and the fan often running a bit fast, probably due to all the dust inside it.

Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' - Slashdot

The Linux Foundation recently uploaded its video from the Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference: Europe. And there was a poignant moment when Linus Torvalds did his traditional keynote conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VMware's vice president and chie…

1-Line Layouts

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willmcgugan/rich

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. - willmcgugan/rich

The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz

I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction."  My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: > duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction And in the summary, I went on to advise…

a327ex/BYTEPATH

Contribute to a327ex/BYTEPATH development by creating an account on GitHub.

De-Escalating Social Media

Designing humility and forgiveness into social media products

Giving code presentations

I sometimes give talks at the local tech hub in the city where I live. It's not a big community, but I enjoy giving talks and they often provide a necessary deadline and motivation to finish some projects. Last week I gave a talk about Rust. Given that there …

Thinking about Algorithmic problems II

As we have seen in the previous article solving a programming problem that requires a custom algorithm can be broken in several steps which can be summarized in the creation of testing data, the im…

No More Shampoo

In December 2019, my girlfriend mentioned that my hair smelled unusually good. What was I doing differently? Nothing, I thought. Everything was just as always. Except that I had run out of shampoo a few weeks prior, and hadn’t noticed until then.

You need a PO Box : JetGirlArt

Because bacon takes forever to cook I’m writing this entire thing from the kitchen. Make your jokes accordingly. The number one suggestion I see for people trying to get a following for their newly written book, program, etc is to start a newsletter. Here in t…