20 August 2020

39 links · Thursday

The Temporality of Media

<p>Temporality is a bit of a contentious topic, here I will explore the idea that temporality in the media we consume is key.</p>

Who to ignore (3 bullshit filters)

By Gabriel and Ernest Oppetit Unforseen shit happens. 9/11, the 2008 crash, Brexit, Trump, COVID-19… you know the story.  These events surprised us because our information diets are domi…

The Ebb and the Flow of Product Development

Founders want speed. Devs want careful planning. The tension can be looked as a variation of the exploration-exploitation trade-off, and its mathematical solution shows an Ebb and a Flow of Product Development in early stage startups.

Is Sapiens Worth Reading? — mattswain.co.uk

Pretty much everyone recommends reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Tim Ferris's podcast interviewee's often say that Sapiens is the book they gift the most and Amazon's 20,000 ratings give it 4.6 stars. But, with over 400 pages of dense content, is…

Angel Investing: Check Sizes

If I were to go back in time and give myself advice on starting out as an angel investor, perhaps the first thing I’d say is: “pick a check size and stick with it.”

Transfer a Software Project - Lessons Learned - dcaulfield

Transferring a software project (or indeed any project) to your team from another team is a daunting task. For the purpose of this article, let’s call the giving teams the “Throwers” and the receiving teams the “Catchers”. To transfer a project, the Throwers d…

The sandpaper learning method

Rather than jump straight to the answer it's important to struggle so once you get the answer it has a place to nest.

Pascal’s Scam - Second Breakfast

Bertrand Russell imagined what he’d say if he found himself on the wrong side of Pascal’s Wager: “But Lord, you did not give us enough evidence!”1

The Impostor's Advantage

My heart was racing. My palms sweating. I was going to be fired. Performance reviews had just ended, and it was time to meet my manager and be told my results. Except I knew what it would say. How else do you rate a programmer who doesn’t code? As

Announcing TypeScript 4.0 | TypeScript

Today we are thrilled to announce the availability of TypeScript 4.0! This version of the language represents our next generation of TypeScript releases, as we dive deeper into expressivity, productivity, and scalability. If you’re not familiar with TypeScript…

Hoppscotch

A free, fast and beautiful API request builder

24h Sunrise/Sunset

“24h Sunrise/Sunset” is an installation that displays a realtime sunset and sunrise somewhere happening in the world with the use of CCTV. Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B+, Arduino Nano Every , custom PCB, power supply’s, VFD displays, lasercut metal and LEDs. Softw…

Loosely Coupled Monolith

This is a how-to series on creating a Loosely Coupled Monolith using async messaging. Not all monoliths are big balls of mud!

ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition

Fully updated to ASP.NET 3.1, ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition</i> is a hands-on primer to building cross-platform web applications with your C# and .NET skills. Even if you’ve never worked with ASP.NET you’ll start creating productive cross-platform web…

ASP.NET Core Health Checks

In this post I'd like to show what the ASP.NET Core Health Checks is for and what you can do with it.

The Case of the Top Secret iPod - TidBITS

15 years ago, Apple helped the US government develop a custom iPod for clandestine missions. Of course, neither Apple nor the US government will admit this ever happened. Former Apple engineer and inadvertent intelligence operative David Shayer tells the story…

davidfowl/CommunityStandUpNet5

A set of samples show casing the .NET linker and .NET 5 APIs - davidfowl/CommunityStandUpNet5

Random UO anecdote #2

I just stumbled across this old story I told somewhere, and thought I’d share more widely. In Ultima Online, the player was a container — one you couldn’t open, but which held you…

dotnet/interactive

.NET Interactive takes the power of .NET and embeds it into your interactive experiences. Share code, explore data, write, and learn across your apps in ways you couldn't before. - dotnet/inter...

davidfowl/CommunityStandUpNet5

A set of samples show casing the .NET linker and .NET 5 APIs - davidfowl/CommunityStandUpNet5

jesseduffield/horcrux

Split your file into encrypted fragments so that you don't need to remember a passcode - jesseduffield/horcrux

Ice Lake AVX-512 Downclocking

Examining the extent of AVX related downclocking on Intel’s Ice Lake CPU

Microsoft.dotnet-httprepl 3.1.0

The HTTP Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line tool that's supported everywhere .NET Core is supported and is used for making HTTP requests to test ASP.NET Core web APIs and view their results.

Can't you just right click?

In 2012, Apple added Gatekeeper to Mac OS X (now macOS). When you try to run Mac software downloaded from the internet, Gatekeeper checks whether the software was signed with a valid Developer ID certificate. If not, then Gatekeeper refuses to run the software…