11 July 2020

24 links · Saturday

Experimenting with RF using RTL-SDR

In this post we'll cover how to use RTL-SDR (RF receiver dongle) to decode wireless sensors based on 433.92Mhz and stream them to InfluxDB. We'll use rtl_433, MQTT broker (Eclipse Mosquitto) and Telegraf.

Satisfactory way of thinking

I've spent hundreds of hours in the factory building game Factorio, and more recently Satisfactory. In both of these games you are a single person dropped on an alien planet, tasked with building everything you need by using only the local resources.

The secret to long term wealth

The secret to building long term wealth is a simple tool that has been around for ages. The secret to wealth is optimizing your personal balance sheet. You mean a budget? No, not a budget but I can understand why you would think so. For a very long time, ...

Our hiring process is what we can get away with

Here’s why Google hires the way it does but you shouldn’t. Every month or so on HackerNews, there’s a thread about how interviewing is broken which usually devolves into “Go…

Friday Five: Azure Live Streaming, Teams Approvals, More!

The ultimate guide to Microsoft Teams based approvals Laura Kokkarinen is an MVP in the Office Development category, and works as a senior software developer and architect at Sulava in Finland. She has been coding for SharePoint and Office 365 since 2011. Toda…

Microsoft Host Integration Server - Wikipedia

Microsoft Host Integration Server (a.k.a. HIS) is a gateway application providing connectivity between Microsoft Windows networks and IBM mainframe and AS/400 systems. Support is provided for SNA, 3270 (standard and Telnet 3270 TN3270E), 5250 (standard and T…

PDC 2000 | Channel 9

PDC 2000 took place on July 11–14, 2000 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET were announced, and the more than 6000+ attendees receive

The Mathematics of Neural Networks (Explained Visually)

This video uses a spatial analogy to explore why deep neural networks are more powerful than shallow ones. We'll explore what neurons are doing individually and as a group to "understand" perceptions. It leads us to the Manifold Hypothesis. Full series here: h…