Could I have passed muster with YC?
Paul Graham describes what Y-Combinator looks for in business founders, and he explains why you become a billionaire by building a great product, not by being a bad person. Pointer from Tyler Cowen...
GitHub Dark Mode is Too Dark - blog.karenying.com
If you hate it too this is why. Using color theory to prove why GitHub dark mode actually sucks
Why I still can't stop using Chrome
Knowing where UX is important
12 prerequisites for a highly secure server
Unpopular and paranoid tips for achieving an impossible goal
Agent vs System
Does it feel like society is heading off a cliff? Social media companies create platforms so addicting that children can’t help but stick to their phones. Politicians make increasingly vicious per...
Become shell literate
Shell literacy is one of the most important skills you ought to possess as a programmer. The Unix shell is one of the most powerful ideas ever put to code, and should be second nature to you as a programmer. No other tool is nearly as effective at commanding y…
Aiming for correctness with types - fasterthanli.me
The Nature weekly journal of science was first published in 1869. And after one and a half century, it has finally completed one cycle of carcinization , by publishing an art...
Earnestness
Jessica and I have certain words that have special significance when we're talking about startups. The highest compliment we can pay to founders is to describe them as "earnest." This is not by itself a guarantee of success. You could be earnest but incapable.…
Chrome is Bad
Short story: Google Chrome installs something called Keystone on your computer, which nefariously hides itself from Activity Monitor and makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn't running. Deleting Chrome and Keystone makes your computer way, way fa…
How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits
The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound
An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
Datasette 0.53 - datasette serve --create option, ?column__arraynotcontains= table filter, ?_header=off CSV option and updated links to reflect the new project website.
Real World String Validation in JavaScript - Scrimba 24 Days of #JavaScriptmas Challenge
It's easy to overlook how tricky string validation can be in JavaScript. In this video, I'll show you how simple string validation challenges become more com...
The .NET Stacks #29: More on route-to-code and some Kubernetes news
This week, we dig deep on route-to-code and discuss some Kubernetes news.
Supporting Jurisdictional Restrictions for Durable Objects
We’re launching Jurisdictional Restrictions for Durable Objects, making it easy for developers to build serverless, stateful applications that comply with data localization obligations.
The dark reality behind Slack’s billion-dollar sale to Salesforce
Slack wanted to stay independent. But in a landscape dominated by tech giants, that proved impossible.
Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPV4 addresses
Amazon owns almost 110M IPV4 addresses. At the lower end of the market price this is over $2B.
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Independent, alternative, and unbiased search results with no user tracking
Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
A photograph thought to be the longest exposure image ever taken has been discovered inside a beer can at the University of Hertfordshire’s Bayfordbury Observatory.
Umbraco Back-office Authentication With Azure Active Directory
There's a fair bit of information a Google search away about configuring Umbraco back-office authentation with providers such as Azure Activ...
The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)
We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.
Python behind the scenes #6: how Python object system works
As we know from the previous parts of this series, the execution of a Python program consists of two major steps: 1. The CPython compiler...
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Code Maze Weekly #55 - Code Maze
Sometimes is really hard to pick the best articles to feature in the newsletter. This week is no different. There’s a ton of great articles to read, and new things to learn, so brace yourselves, Code Maze Weekly #55 is coming. We feel blessed to be able to rea…
Enable unified data governance with Azure Purview | Azure Friday
Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how easy it is to create a map of your data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage.