7 February 2021

35 links · Sunday

Search with typo tolerance

Surprise your users with a typo-tolerant search. Let them know that you care about them and you'll try to do your best to show some results.

App Startup vs Content Startup

Here is something that occurred to me recently. It’s not a law or anything, but just a thought-provoking observation. I find it interesting, and maybe …

The Why of technology

Language, agriculture, and unlocking the mysteries of life itself. How does technology enable our progress, and how should we move forward?

How to Eat an Elephant, One Atomic Concept at a Time - kwokchain

How Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe—and winning In 2010, Photoshop was ubiquitous. Whether you were editing a photo, making a poster, or designing a website, it happened in Photoshop.  Today, Adobe looks incredibly strong. They’ve had spectacular stock per…

Lessons Learned From My Last Startup: A Post Mortem

My cofounder Alex Li and I started BiteSchool in March 2020. Throughout the course of the next nine months, we taught ourselves mobile development, built an iOS app, quit our jobs, pitched hundreds of content creators, and interviewed for YC’s Winter 2021 batc…

How to Sell Niche Websites: My Experience Selling 2 Websites

I am a niche website hoarder too. I see little reason for NOT starting a new website. Actually, I see none. I have been a full-time introvert since forever, and product marketing happened to be my vocation and avocation.

The power of three

We are wired to tune into the power of three. Great communication is built on it. Consider many of the most durable marketing slogans:  Just...

TS-Energy - BuiltWithDot.Net

TS-Energy is a comprehensive platform for the optimizations of energy asset such as Hydro-power plants, Thermal (gas, oil and coal) power plants and flexible contracts. The application supports energy analysts, traders and operators in power plant operation…

Symbiosys Website - BuiltWithDot.Net

We wanted to create a new website that clearly communicates our vision and that uses the same technological stack that we use for our client projects The website and the admin app are built using Aurelia as a front end framework and dotnetcore 2.1 for the …

scandum/gridsort

A stable adaptive partitioning comparison sort. Contribute to scandum/gridsort development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Secret Life of Microsoft Interns - by Davepl

Former Microsoft Intern t-davepl tells all about his summer adventures at Microsoft, from Bill Gates in his back yard to Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon at the ...

Visual guide to SSH tunnels

This page explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows. For example, here's a reverse tunnel that allows only users from IP address 1.2.3.4 access to port 80 on the SSH client through an SSH server.

Firewall - BuiltWithDot.Net

Firewall is an ASP.NET Core middleware which enables IP address filtering based on individual IP addresses (VIP list) or IP address ranges (guest lists). IP address filtering can be added as an extra layer of security to a publicly exposed API or to force a…

CFP Exchange - BuiltWithDot.Net

CFP Exchange tries to gather current Call For Papers from events around the world by crowd-sourcing them from the community and provide you with all the tech events at one single place. You can even upload events yourself. The site is built with asp.net core …

OneSync Reader - BuiltWithDot.Net

OneSync Reader is open source e-book reader with synchronization for Android and Windows devices. It started as a master thesis but the app is still under the development. I will be happy for your feedback. You can create github issue or even better create pul…

Intro to Graphics 05 - 2D Transformations

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Course website: https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/courses/cs4600/fall2020/

Four Ways of Not Writing Software Bugs

Texts on philosophy, poetry, literature, history, politics, science, programming & music.

What Companies Get Wrong about Remote Salaries

As companies had to adjust to remote working last year, many were open to hiring outside their location. When deciding what to pay a software engineer, most do…

The 2020 IPOs surge is different from prior surges

Snir's investing desk is a newsletter focused on intelligent, value investing for the individual investor. The subjects are evergreen and deals with the essence of investing, mental models, and concepts.

How to utilize your Android when there's no internet?

Current technology is inherently connected. You need a connection to text someone or to to check your e-mails, and that's completely okay. What isn't that okay though, is that you need a connection to consume any sort of media from music to news. But, in contr…

Turn Hacker News into an RSS feed

You're an engineer who looks at Hacker News 2-5 times a day. HN is a good way to fill the gaps in time. You scan the front page- repeatedly- for links of interest... reading titles, eyeing scores... often jumping directly to the (overtly contrarian) comments t…

Overcoming Bias : Experts Versus Elites

Consider a typical firm or other small organization, run via a typical management hierarchy. At the bottom are specialists, who do very particular tasks. At the top are generalists, who supposedly consider it all in the context of a bigger picture. In the midd…

Small can be great

Instead of pretending to be big, your small software agency should be honest and proud of its size.