3 October 2020

27 links · Saturday

Wiki - RustStarterKit2020

People were arguing about Rust’s std lib recently, so I went through the Cargo.toml of all the Rust projects I’ve written since 2015 and picked out the choice tools that get used over and over again. Up to date as of October 2020.

Saving in the age of abundance

Can software save savings? New thinking for a world with negative real interest rates.

The end of the American internet — Benedict Evans

For its first two decades, the consumer internet was American - American companies, products, attitudes and laws set the agenda. That’s not so true anymore - there are more smartphones in China than in the USA and Western Europe combined. Software creation and…

Save your wrists and your time: lose the mouse | Kevin Chow

Note: This post is aimed at macOS users, with some cross-OS tools. Most are free and open-source. Hi, I’m Kevin and I don’t use a mouse. As a knowledge worker or keyboard warrior, most of my life exists between the four corners of a screen.

Why Charge, How Much to Charge, and Pricing - Bone and Feathers

I remember the first time I wrote a checkout system that took money from customers. It was for a paid real-time analytics product that I’d built – a few years before Google made it free with Analytics. I was using the Authorize.net API and was terrified. “What…

Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Part 2

This is the second part of my battery adventure, if you haven’t read part one you can find it in the link in the header. Since I made the first writeup, I got the cells, a spot welder and have assembled the battery fully. It’s working fairly well, but with som…

Replacing Zoom with Open Broadcaster Software

A post on local recordings Background Since the advent of the COVID-19 situation, there has been an increase in the demand for recorded materials. Standard approaches involve Zoom, which is not only proprietary, but also quite a bit of a privacy nightmare. Th…

SLOs for Open Source

Open source software has been used to build organizations for years. From libraries to complex infrastructure systems, the open source landscape provides a vast sea of solutions. For larger infrastructure projects, organizations are asking maintainers for serv…

nidhaloff/igel

a machine learning tool that allows to train, test and use models without writing code - nidhaloff/igel

Passwords with Troy Hunt

Listen to this episode from Phoenix Cast on Spotify. In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Kyle and Rich talk with special guest Troy Hunt, web security expert and the creator of Have I Been Pwned?.  Troy takes a fresh look at the best practices for pas…

Month full of Days | undefined News - Times of India

WHAT do you do on Mule Day or for that matter Virus Appreciation Day? The month of October has a slew of special days, each with its own special agend

Raycasting engine in Factorio 1.0 (unmodded) - Facto-RayO v2.0

Version 2.0 of my ray casting engine build entirely inside factorio. No mods are needed to run it. more information and download: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=88678 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ve…

Newsletter Week 40, 2020

Sergey .NET Continue to work with how to create as simple as possible scheduling and exception handling for .NET Core Worker Services. This is next blog post in the blog series about .NET Core Worker Service. Recorded new eposide "Cloud stories from Norway" t…

Bring your whole self

I remember during the onboarding week there were compelling testimonials from ...

The Kyber/Dilithium NTT

During the last half year, I have been working on implementing the Dilithium signature scheme.Dilithium is one of the few remaining candidates in the NIST po...