15 November 2020

30 links · Sunday

SourceHut's second year in alpha

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

BetterExplained – Math lessons that click

Most lessons offer low-level details in a linear, seemingly logical sequence. Better Explained focuses on the big picture — the Aha! moment — and then the specifics. Here’s the difference:

Can’t open apps on macOS: an OCSP disaster waiting to happen

Two days ago, macOS users experienced worrying hangs when opening applications not downloaded from the Mac App Store. Many users suspected hardware issues with their devices, but as they took to social media, they found it was a widespread problem. And it was …

Simulation Erosion: A experiment

Recently, I watched Sebastian Lague’s video on simulating erosion. However, his approach generated a 2 dimensional heightmap. At the same…

fszlin/certes

A client implementation for the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol - fszlin/certes

.NET Conf 2020 and .NET 5 links

.NET Conf 2020 is done and .NET 5 is finally here! Information about this release is spread across a bunch of blogs, videos and whatnot, so I thought of grabbing a bunch of links and put them in a post for quick reference.

The Prestige Trap

For the past year, I've been on a leave of absence from college working on a startup. As I prepare for my return to school, what comes next…

An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can be useful.

JS Bin

A live pastebin for HTML, CSS & JavaScript and a range of processors, including SCSS, CoffeeScript, Jade and more...

Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look

Apple’s launch of macOS Big Sur was almost immediately followed by server issues which prevented users from running third-party apps on their computers. While a workaround was soon found by people on Twitter, others raised some privacy concerns related to that…

Open Source Is Not Free Software

There is a big misconception, open source is not free software. This post on Hacker News made me realize that better. Being an open source developer is hard. Open source is an incredible thing. We all use it, but rarely think about what would happen if it were…

How to improve your mathematical writing

Having been a reviewer for numerous machine learning conferences now, there are some repeated issues I want to point out, concerning the way authors describe mathematical concepts in their papers. I hope that my suggestions will serve in particular those that …