29 November 2020

41 links · Sunday

Ten Reasons for Tech Optimism in 2021

I have written previously about losing my teenage optimism for technology, and how we struggle to have bold dreams for the future. Many people have articulated theses of this type, most famously Peter Thiel in claiming that we’ve seen great innovation in the w…

Why sharing files/folders across devices is still messy in 2020?

This article is going to be a long rant on the problems I faced when I wanted to transfer a large number of files between two devices. I bet many of you would have faced a similar issue at one time or another. I will also try to state the problem bet...

How To Get Back On Track - Darius Foroux

Do you know that feeling of being in the zone? Everything seems to go well before something bad happens. And you need to get back on track.

Search for the perfect blog post

One of the side goals of most developers is to maintain a blog. We spend an entire weekend trying to decide between Hugo or Gatsby and setting it up. Then going through the enormous list of community developed themes to pick one, only to spend an another weeke…

Flappy bird in 341 bytes

Flappy bird in 341 bytes. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Home | SpaceHey.com

SpaceHey.com — a space for friends. It's a place to have fun, meet friends, and be creative!

Challenge

Cloud Skills Challenge

Filippo's developing on Apple Silicon notes

Developing on Apple Silicon This is a random document where I am dumping my notes about developing on a new Apple Silicon M1 MacBook, including some benchmarks as I start making them. You can follow me and comment on Twitter (but I’m not providing support). Wh…

Microsoft Releases .NET for Apache Spark 1.0

Last month, Microsoft released the first major version of .NET for Apache Spark, an open-source package that brings .NET development to the Apache Spark platform. The new release allows .NET developers to write Apache Spark applications using .NET user-defined…

Please

Please supports a number of popular languages and can automate nearly any aspect of your build process.

Stupid light software

The ultralight hiking community is – as you may gather from the name – very focused on ultralight equipment and minimalism. Turns out that saving a bit of weight ten times actually adds up to a significant weight savings, making hikes – especially longer ones …

Growl in Retirement • Let us chat about nothing.

Growl is being retired after surviving for 17 years. With the announcement of Apple’s new hardware platform, a general shift of developers to Apple’s notification system, and a lack of obvious ways to improve Growl beyond what it is and has been,... | Let us c…

TabMerger Chrome Extension Example Use Case

Tired of searching through squished tab icons to find that one tab you are sure is there? With TabMerger you can simplify this clutter while greatly increasing productivity in a highly organized and customizable fashion! A single click is all it takes to mer…

Thank you, Tony

Coincidentally enough, I had decided that I wanted to write a letter to my mentor Tony this weekend, thanking him for the huge impact he’s had on my life. But I suppose that has now morphed i…

Running a job board in Japan can land you in prison

I started tokyodev as a side project, and when I first launched it, it never occurred to me that there might be legal repercussions for advertising job postings. However, in Japan, recruiting is a licensed industry, with criminal penalties of up to a year in p…

The Truth About Starting a Startup

(I wrote this for YC’s Future Founders Conference for Women. I’ll add the recording when it becomes available. The actual talk I gave on November 18th should include bonus streams of unconscious...

ph1lter

Let's try creating a ZIP file from scratch. Since I'm mostly interested in the layout and meta-data we'll be using the option to add the files uncompressed. That means I don't have to learn the [deflate] compression algorithm at the same time. The resulting kn…

the depression thing

the depression thing: a neat story about depression and mental health. By Zach Holman.

Jacques Corby-Tuech - Garbage In, Garbage Out

It recently surfaced in a story by AdExchanger and The Wall Street Journal that Facebook had, for a year, been feeding incorrect data to advertisers paying to display adverts across Facebook's network using their lift conversion tool.

Building noJS.club

Modern web is a mess. That’s why I think I loved the idea behind 1MB Club, and the offshoots 512KB Club and 250kb Club. They are lists of websites where the ...

Empathy is required for democracy

As humans, we’re fundamentally “selfish”, for lack of a better term, as our own feelings and experiences are our baseline. We’re also fundamentally empathic, which is why most of us aren’t assholes.