10 July 2020

40 links · Friday

Marketing CPAs, Explained

In marketing, what is a CPA? This sounds like a simple question, but understanding its answer in detail can teach you a huge amount about the fundamentals of marketing.

Keyboardio Atreus Review - sulami's blog

I recently received my early bird Keybardio Atreus Promotional photo courtesy of Keyboardio from the Kickstarter and have now been using it for about three weeks, so I am writing a review for folks considering buying one after release.

The Frink is Good, the Unit is Evil • Hillel Wayne

One day Alan Eliasen read a fart joke and got so mad he invented a programming language. 20 years later Frink is one of the best special purpose languages for dealing with units. “But why do we need a language just for dealing with units?” Glad you asked! Intr…

The Value of Alternative Investments · Sturm Mabie

A retail investor would be forgiven for assuming that there are really only two assets classes one should consider for personal investments: equities (stocks) and fixed income (bonds). Wherever you look, these two asset classes dominate the financial landscape…

The Polymath Playbook

An exploration of my learnings and experiences with the polymath lifestyle. In a world built for specialization, the polymath approach can help us build unique mental models to differentiate ourselves, and the opportunity to discover meaningful work.

Driving Therapy - Now on YouTube — cdahmedeh

I personally find driving to be very therapeutic and many others do as well. Not only does it allow time for pondering and reflection but the change of scenery helps refresh our thoughts. The sights and sounds can be stimulating and can keep our minds occupied…

Disabling Google 2FA Doesn't Need 2FA

A developer's machine, compromised by attackers, was able to use Safari auto-fill to log into passwords.google.com, disable 2FA and extract passwords without notification. InfoQ spoke to Amos (@fasterthanlime) on Twitter about his experience and advice for oth…

Strong Generalization and Efficiency in Neural Programs

We study the problem of learning efficient algorithms that strongly generalize in the framework of neural program induction. By carefully designing the input / output interfaces of the neural model and through imitation, we are able to learn models that produc…

MikeCodesDotNET/ColoredBadges

Some badges I created for my GitHub profile readme. - MikeCodesDotNET/ColoredBadges

Loading Related Data - EF Core

Entity Framework Core allows you to use the navigation properties in your model to load related entities. There are three common O/RM patterns used to load related data.

The Bourne Collection: Online Search Is Older than You Think! - CHM

Charlie Bourne was an expert in computerized search for 40 years before Google. CHM has recently finished cataloging his unique collection of materials documenting the history of online search and information systems from the 1950s onward, supported by a gener…

LibreOffice: the next five years

The LibreOffice project would seem to be on a roll. It produces what is widely seen as the leading free office-productivity suite, and has managed to move out of the shadow of the moribund (but brand-recognized) Apache OpenOffice project. The LibreOffice 7 …

2 Years To Make $10 in Software Revenue

It took us over two years to make $10 in revenue through software we made. We made a lot of mistakes we hope you can learn from on the way.

Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS

This post highlights a few powerful lines of CSS that do some serious heavy lifting and help you build robust modern layouts.

Using SignalR in ASP.NET Core & React to Send Messages

A recorded live stream, where we go ahead and install SignalR onto an ASP.NET Core MVC API & React application. From there, we will create an endpoint in our API where we can send messages to. After that, the API will send out a message to all clients connect…

Passwordless: The Future of Authentication

Tech and security analysts predict enterprises will shift to passwordless authentication for their users to enable modern digital transformation. In this white paper, we discuss the passwordless future and the path toward true passwordless.

Ask a Techspert: How do machine learning models explain themselves?

Interview with Been Kim, a Google researcher working on the People + AI Research (PAIR) team, who devotes her time to making sure artificial intelligence puts people, not machines, at its center.

Webwaste

In this excerpt from World Wide Waste, Gerry McGovern examines the environmental impact of bloated websites and unnecessary assets. Digital is physical. It seems cheap and free, but it’s not—…

Pokémon Sprite Decompression Done By Hand

Donate to The Bail Project here: https://donate.tiltify.com/@retro-game-mechanics-explained/decompress Don't know what's going on? Check out the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF1Yw_wu2cM Webapp for decompressing & compressing sprites: http://www.dot…

How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less

By Brandon Azad, Project Zero At 3 PM PDT on May 23, 2020, the unc0ver jailbreak was released for iOS 13.5 (the latest signed version a...

Perf Track

Tracking framework performance at scale

Quartz.NET

A free, open-source scheduling framework for .NET.