Hedging tail risk, emigration, keyboard superoptimization
When my partner and I moved to Taiwan in March, many of our friends were quite surprised. Back then, all I wrote was: “long pandemic story short, ended up in Taiwan”.
Opinions worth sharing | Quentin Delcourt
Second Innings: SaaS - Harsha Halvi's Blog
I was talking to a friend and recounting my experiences building multiple SaaS startups and why SaaS is generally a tough nut to break into. While I
Why is Backblaze tracking me?
This is a follow-up to my previous post: hey.com is onto something with its tracking-pixel blocker. I mentioned contacting Backblaze about their email tracking there.
The problem with labeling people
When you share an opinion publicly, you may have people who agree with you, disagree with you, or have absolutely no opinion. But what you may not be aware of is the label people instantly associat…
My first year without social media
It has been a year since I left social media. It was difficult to do at the time, and I kept finding excuses and reasons not to. Looking back I realise it was b
Lessons learned leading an internal team
Lessons learned taking on responsibility for the technical roadmap
Winning the Internet
A data-driven newsletter of links in other newsletters.
Why Did The Mathematician Cross The Road? - with Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose is one of the biggest names in mathematics AND physics. Here he talks about sibling rivalry, Stephen Hawking, having ideas, and toilet paper. Roger Penrose Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose Roger Penrose books - Amazon…
Why Did The Mathematician Cross The Road? - with Roger Penrose — The Numberphile Podcast
Sir Roger Penrose is one of the biggest names in mathematics AND physics. Here he talks about sibling rivalry, Stephen Hawking, having ideas, and toilet paper.
The Numberphile Podcast on Apple Podcasts
Natural Sciences · 2020
danso - git branch --delete master
git version 2.28.0, released one week ago, includes a simple but nice new feature:
Google's secret home security superpower: Your smart speaker with its always-on mics
Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands. Using them for home security could supercharge Google's $450 million ADT deal.
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
When Feature Flags Do And Don’t Make Sense
Over the past years, I’ve worked in multiple teams adopting very different strategies when it comes to feature flags. I’ve seen the pros and cons of both, and over time, I found myself disagreeing …
How to better design your game communities for kindness
At GDC Summer this week Kitfox comms director Victoria Chan offered up five rules for being a better community manager and five steps you can take to build kinder, cozier communities.
RaDVaC – Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has become the greatest global public health crisis in a century. Experts say a vaccine is our best hope for ending the pandemic, but a commercial vaccine won’t arrive until late 2020 or early 2021, if all goes well.
Oatly: The New Coke
Fool me once, shame on you...
Why Did The Mathematician Cross The Road? - with Roger Penrose — Numberphile
Aug 8
Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others
Ohhh, never thought of this hypothesis: that the act of getting drunk together might be a social technology that helps us verify the trustworthiness of others by inhibiting their higher cognitive functions and thus making it harder to consciously fake things. …
Newsletter Week 32, 2020
Sergey .NET I started to work on Set up CD using Azure DevOps in the blog series about .NET Core Worker Service. It will be in two parts just because it is quite a lot. Preview is here: Part 1 and Part 2. From 01.09.2020 some of my
C# to the max! Continuations, co-routines and Source Generators!
Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 7:00 PM: == C# continuations / coroutines and side project - Andrew Nosenko== Source Generators (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-c-source-generators/) - @David Wen
Why is This Idiot Running My Engineering Org?
Fear, loathing and failing up in technology
hndex.org
a search engine for finding articles posted to hacker news
SQLite and EF Core Concurrency Tokens
Entity Framework Core has great built-in support for optimistic concurrency control. The best way to utilize this on SQL Server is via a rowversion column. Unfortunately, SQLite has no such feature. This post show how to implement similar functionality using a…
Thread by @alkreidler: Thread: Google and other tech giants are happy to have control over the Web's metadata schemas, but they let its infrastructure languish. Sc…
Thread by @alkreidler: Thread: Google and other tech giants are happy to have control over the Web's metadata schemas, but they let ituish. Schema.org is a repository for Semantic Web/Linked Data types that many publishers (NYTimes, etc) and…
Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’
The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”
vcmi/vcmi
Open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III - vcmi/vcmi
6- Axis IMU with ESP32
6- Axis IMU based on ESP32 for gaming/learning, and quadcopter. basically, i want to make a easy-to-create quadcopter with ESP WIFI, or BLE conection, a platform that i can freely add some other sensors/camera on it ... so i make this board in advance to test …
Intel, ARM, IBM, AMD Processors Vulnerable to New Side-Channel Attacks
It turns out that the root cause behind several previously disclosed speculative execution attacks against modern processors, such as Meltdown and Foreshadow, was misattributed to ‘prefetchin…
Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says (2)
The U.S. government charges too much for access to an electronic database of federal court records, the Federal Circuit ruled in a decision curbing a revenue stream the court system uses to help fund other programs.
SalehAlbuga/azure-functions-swift
Azure Functions in Swift! Purely in Swift! Contribute to SalehAlbuga/azure-functions-swift development by creating an account on GitHub.
Building dashboards for operational visibility | Amazon Builders' Library
Building dashboards to monitor, dive deep, audit, and review distributed services and automated systems.
dotnet-presentations/dotNETConf
Creative and technical content for running a .NET Conf local event in your community - dotnet-presentations/dotNETConf
julielerman/dotnetconfms2020
Demo from July 30 2020 DotNet Conference "The Intersection of Microservices, Domain-Driven Design, & EF Core" - julielerman/dotnetconfms2020