13 March 2021

50 links · Saturday

Making of A Brief Visual Exploration of A Dictionary of Typography

Not many people read a dictionary cover to cover, let alone analyze every word, but I did and found it fascinating. During research phases for my past restoration projects, I often came across a surprising number of antique dictionaries and always overlooked t…

GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars

70+ open-source clones of popular sites like Airbnb, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, Tiktok, Spotify, Whatsapp, Youtube etc. See source code, demo links, tech stack, github stars. - GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars

Byrne's Euclid

A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

GraphBLAS/GraphBLAS-Pointers

Resources on the GraphBLAS standard for graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra - GraphBLAS/GraphBLAS-Pointers

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The Josephus Problem - Numberphile

Bits and Bones (feat. Matt Parker) - Objectivity #236

Matt Parker shows Brady some of his favourite objects from his personal archive at home. More links below ↓↓↓Objectivity on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/...

The Trapped Knight - Numberphile

Featuring Neil Sloane... Check out Brilliant (and get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor)More links & stuff in full d...

How to Build an Email Sentiment Analysis Bot - Using Logic Apps

This article discuss about how to build an Email Sentiment Analysis Bot with the help of Azure Serverless tools and Azure Cognitive Services. You can build such tool by writing code with the help of Azure Functions and with no code using Azure Logic Apps. In t…

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All the World's Coronavirus fits in a Coke Can - Numberphile

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Pi is Beautiful - Numberphile

How to send an 'E mail' - Database - 1984

How to send an e mail 1980's style. Electronic message writing down the phone line. First shown on Thames TV's computer programme 'Database' in 198407/06/198...

Everyday Hiking Trips - BuiltWithDot.Net

I wanted to learn more about Xamarin.Forms and, at the same time, make something that might benefit others. When I learned that my municipality (Stavanger, Norway) had just uploaded lots of open data regarding everyday hiking trips, I saw this as an opportunit…

Speed of Rust vs C

The run-time speed and memory usage of programs written in Rust should about the same as of programs written in C, but overall programming style of these languages is different enough that it's hard to generalize their speed. This is a summary of where they're…

MonoMod - BuiltWithDot.Net

MonoMod is a general purpose .NET modding "foundation", powered by Mono.Cecil. Its main purpose is enabling both beginners and experienced programmers to modify .NET Framework / mono programs (mainly games). With its highly flexible patcher at its core and man…

BAH Colloquium - Kevin Galloway

Zoom Meeting ID: 95216857655 • Host: Darcy Long • Meeting Start: 03/12/2021 @ 3:20 PM • Recording Start: 03/12/2021 @ 3:37 PM • Duration: 55 mins • Participants: Anton Ratnarajah, Purbesh Mitra, Sai Damera, Lambros Mertzanis, p s krishnaprasad, Eric Justh, S…

dotnet-db-migrate - BuiltWithDot.Net

dotnet-db-migrate is a global tool you can install you aid you in database migrations. Under the hood it uses db-up, anyone who has used this knows you have to create a migrations project to run your sql scripts. dotnet-db-migration takes this step out of …

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Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads - Let's start a community project

safepassme

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Investigating a Linux CVE with .NET Images | .NET Blog

We regularly get contacted for help in managing CVEs in Linux-based .NET images. In fact, we were contacted just this morning about CVE-2021-23840 and CVE-2021-23841. I investigated the CVE for that customer to help them understand their options. It occurred t…

Do one thing well

Teams add so many features that the product fails at the job we hired it for. People don't want more features. They want the product to get the job done and get out of their way.

Don’t Read Links on the Internet

Don’t read this blog. Think about it? Why should you read this blog? There are a functionally-infinite number of other things you could read and you’ve clicked this specific link on the internet. F…

N64 TAS (Tool-Assisted) Speedrun Research

For several years I’ve watched the speedrunning community participate in a bi-yearly event called Games Done Quick. This showcase/telethon works to collect as many donations as possible during a week-long videogame speedrunning marathon. One segment that caugh…

Fast optimization of classification thresholds

Binary classification problems (target/non-target) are often modeled as a pair $latex (f, \theta) &s=1$ where $latex f : \mathbb{R}^D \to [0, 1] &s=1$ is our model, which maps input vectors…

What is tax loss harvesting?

As a W2’d employee you don’t have a lot of strategies you can use to minimize your taxes at the end of the year. You can be making $1,000,000 a year, but if most or all of that income comes from a direct employer and shows up on your W2, your tax bill at the e…