31 December 2020

41 links · Thursday

Obligatory "What I wish I knew about git" post · Peter Whittaker

tl;dr: If you think of git branch as a verb meaning diverge from this path, split my tree and think of the branch name as a label that tracks the most recent commit on this new path, a lot of stuff about git becomes clearer. You might already understand what d…

Survive America

prepping for the obvious

Note to Self - How to Work

Re-align with your Goals: Spend some time thinking about what you’re trying to achieve and why to spark that passion again.

Top 25+ Reasons Why Jira Sucks (in 2020)

Jira is the worst software that ever became popular. Sadly it is used by multiple enterprises. We count reasons for not using Jira. Let's join this fight!

MicroFrontends With Blazor WebAssembly | Developer Support

Wael Kdouh embarks on a mission to uncover the details behind the implementation of MicroFrontends under Blazor WebAssembly applications. I recently embarked on a mission to uncover the details behind the implementation of MicroFrontends under Blazor WebAssemb…

LibrePhotos/librephotos

Self hosted alternative to Google Photos . Contribute to LibrePhotos/librephotos development by creating an account on GitHub.

Maoni0/mem-doc

This is a document to help with .NET memory analysis and diagnostics. - Maoni0/mem-doc

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.0.1-rc1 now available!

The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of GHC 9.0.1 series. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place. This release candidate comes quite a bit later than expected after difficulty fi…

How we built the GitHub globe - The GitHub Blog

GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how open source development transcends the

Resetting Zcash: its about privacy, not scale, econ, dev funds, or governance

There are safeguards in place, but if you want 100% supply auditability on demand then you will be dissatisfied with any privacy coin. Even the Monero guys are honest and say that they cannot guarantee supply, that’s the nature of “privacy”. You have to rely…

Zdeno Chara will wear number 33 with the Capitals

The Washington Capitals signed 43-year-old defenseman Zdeno Chara on Wednesday in the second shocking move of the team's offseason. Later that night, the Capitals announced that Chara will wear number 33 in Washington. You can customize and buy one of...

Rootclaim. Calculating reality.

Rootclaim helps people understand complex issues by combining the power of crowdsourced information with the mathematical validity of statistics.

glouw/ctl

The C Template Library. Contribute to glouw/ctl development by creating an account on GitHub.

There Will Always Be Uncertainty - Anthony Diké

A big reason why people are afraid to start is because they're unsure of what will happen. There will always be uncertainty. The trick is to dive in and reduce the uncertainty yourself.

The cost and value of knowledge

I was a student in France when I discovered the Internet and the World Wide Web. At that time, I didn’t realize the value of the thing, even though I taught myself HTML from what was available at the time (even if I don’t remember the sites - they probably hav…

Leading someone with more years of experience than my age

It all started at my first job. I’ve been around 6 months in the company and was happy getting used to the ropes of my current job. In those 6 months, I quickly pushed to prod (without even k…