24 October 2020

31 links · Saturday

What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It?

In the mid-1990s, Be Inc. had the audacity to create a brand-new personal computer operating system from scratch. It gained critical acclaim for its ahead-of-its-time features, but failed to capture significant market share. It’s still a cult favorite 25 years…

chrismaltby/gb-studio

A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system - chrismaltby/gb-studio

GB Studio

A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.

Setting up a build with NUKE

Let’s take a look at NUKE, a cross-platform build automation system with C# DSL. We’ll use it to define the build for a new library that will eventually make its way to NuGet.

prabhuignoto/react-chrono

Modern Timeline component for React. Contribute to prabhuignoto/react-chrono development by creating an account on GitHub.

gnu.org

This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).

github/dmca

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Penetration Testing and Low-Cost Freelancing

Penetration testing is complex. For it to be successful, the tester needs to possess a variety of different abilities and skills. Some testers rely only on automated tools, while others focus more on manual analysis. While a creative and unconventional way of …

So Many Notebooks, So Little Time...

Jupyter Notebooks are awesome but there are so many. Just at Google we have Colab, Kaggle Notebooks, and Cloud AI Platform Notebooks. So which should you use? The answer is “it depends”. This session will summarize your options and try to help you choose the b…

Should I buy the dip?

For quite some time I've been monitoring the markets, and waiting for a dip to invest my cash. However, a few weeks ago I decided to put this assumption to the test. Is buying the dip the best I could do with my hard earned cash? The contextLike most employees…

I'm handing over maintenance of wlroots and sway to Simon Ser

Over the past several months, I’ve been gradually weaning down my role in both projects, and as a contributor to Wayland in general. I feel that I’ve already accomplished everything I set out to do with Wayland — and more! I have been happily using sway as my …

No More Politics in the Workplace – jake lazaroff

Last night, Expensify CEO David Barrett sent an email urging all their customers to vote for Joe Biden. The response was predictably polarizing, with a lot of people arguing that workplaces shouldn’t be politicized. Okay, fine. But if we’re doing this, can…