California’s Future
[TL;DR: California builds the TCP/IP, other cultures build the websites. Both valuable, but different. Megaprojects and marketplaces.]
Equal pay for equal work - Dusted Codes
Remote work is on the rise, the economy is on a decline and businesses are re-structuring themselve...
Don't complete their thought - AntiVacillate
I’ve recently been thinking about why listening can be very difficult. One aspect that always comes to mind, a practice that is exceptionally
Software Leviathans – Sledgeworx Software
Dis-economies of scale, why FAANG pays high salaries, the dominance of Java
From Mac to Linux
No Golang For You
The blog post “I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride” by Amos incited me to write a comment on its HN submission page. But as the comment ran 5 paragraphs long, I have turned it into this blog post.
How I discovered I was a baseball card "investor" for 30 years.
You can find audio to this post here. The Garage Sale It was the summer of 1996, and I was a carefree kid whose only goal in life where to ride my bike faster and farther each day. Sega Genesis was the console of choice, soon to be blown up by the Nintendo 64.…
Developing and Maintaining Gratitude
As I reflect back on 2020, a year that was tough on human civilisation as a whole, I am nevertheless grateful for the many positive experiences of this year. This post is not a ‘humblebrag’ or a denial of the many negative things of 20201, but rather a brief r…
How startups can avoid flawed decision making
As a startup founder, it's mission critical to know what decisions you should make quickly, and which you should make slowly. It's common to think that at the earliest stage your approach should be to, "move fast and break things", but not only did Facebook di…
Stats are the new analytics
tl;dr: I set up self-hosted Plausible Analytics on this site. You can see it here. This site runs on an instance of Ghost I self-host on DigitalOcean. [1] That's my referral link. It gets you $100 in credit to be used in 60 days and me $25 if you
Which benchmark programs are fastest?
Which benchmark programs written in different programming languages are fastest?
bezzad/Downloader
Fast and reliable multipart downloader with asynchronous progress events for .NET applications. - bezzad/Downloader
Govt proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals, provide free access to all
The 'One Nation, One Subscription' policy for scientific journals is a radical move that could prove to be a game changer for the scientific community and individual researchers.
My Biggest Piece of Advice for Developers in 2021
As we move into 2021, how are you going to make it your best year ever? 2020 might be over but that doesn't mean things miraculously get better. It's up to y...
My year in data
What do I actually do with my time? How productive am I? I logged everything I did in 2020 and got some pretty cool data out of this.
Make smaller console apps with .NET and CoreRT - { Destructured }
There’s something satisfying about slimming down an app’s executable file(s) to be as small as possible. It’s not unlike the joy of removing dead code from a codebase; or, to use a non-programming example, the satisfaction of emptying your home of clutter. It …
How to rename a Git branch
As a developer for more than a decade, sometimes I wonder how it’s taken me this long to do a thing. This morning, it was renaming a Git branch. Whatever the case, I finally found the need to do it this morning and am happy to share how easy it...
SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious · Issue #1263 · greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender
It occurred to me that our current discussion of this is hard to find. It is happening in #1175, the issue about the new maintainer. To summarize, the maintainer recently updated their chrome store...
A New Year, A New Launch! Solo V2.
In 2020, we learned that predictions are hard. For us, it was supposed to be the launch of Solo V2 over the summer. The patience of everyone is greatly appreciated. But here we are! It's 2021 and let's do this! Happy to announce our campaign to launch So…
Zig in 30 minutes
Zig in 30 minutes. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Real World Technologies - Forums
By: Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org), January 2, 2021 12:21 pm
Apple reconsiders banning Mac app Amphetamine over its drug-inspired name
Apple has reconsidered plans to kick Amphetamine from the Mac App Store over its drug-inspired name.
The Mobile Map App Part I: The Void
The landscape of OpenStreetMap-based mobile apps
IDEA - nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions
IDEA is a series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions, created by Sándor P. Fekete and Sebastian Morr.
.NET Cycling Kit
Collecting interest for a .NET cycling kit
The Best Software Every Reverse Engineer Should Have for Cracking Software | PiProgramming
Every reverse engineer, malware analyst or simply a researcher eventually collects a set of software that they use on a daily basis to analyze, unpack, and crack other software. This article will show you mine, so you don't have to hunt for them on your own. I…
CVE Stuffing
The Yale Manual for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy of Depression (using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Therapeutic Frame)
The Yale Manual for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy of Depression provides researchers and therapists with methods, structure, and areas to consider regarding the use of psychedelic- assisted therapy in the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). In particul…
How to overcome Phone Addiction [Solutions + Research]
Phone addiction is one of the biggest non-drug addiction in human history. Studies show that excessive phone use is linked to procrastination, suicide (example), spoilt