28 March 2021

39 links · Sunday

Men Clamming Up

One worrying trend I’ve observed among my male investor friends is that they’re much more wary of giving candid advice to women founders than they used to be. They are afraid of saying anything that a female founder might misinterpret as sexism. So, when givin…

Pin and suffering - fasterthanli.me

I'd like to think that my understanding of "async Rust" has increased over the past year or so. I'm 100% onboard with the basic principle: I would like to handle tho...

I made an eInk newspaper - Greg Raiz

I took a 32″ eInk display and turned it into a digital newspaper that updates every day. It’s silent, wireless and can run for months without being plugged in. The display is based on the Visionect 32″ place and play display. This works by running two componen…

New Windows Easter Egg Discovered - And I'm in it!

More than 25 years later, two new Easter eggs have been discovered, and I'm at the top of the list (the order is random, to be sure). See them both and hear...

Valentin Vincendon - A "sudden strong wind": the worst excuse Ever Given?

The Suez Canal is an artery of world trade, connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, and providing an avenue for vessels to pass between Asia and the Middle East and Europe. The main alternative, a passage round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip…

Writing Documentation

Writing documentation is the kryptonite for software engineers. It’s this thing we have to do after we finish all the interesting work and since we did all the interesting work we know everything about it so why do we need to document it? This idea it’s defini…

No one gives a shit what programming language you use

I’ve had it up to here (gestures at nose level) with the bullshit around programming language elitism. Back when I thought it mattered I was just as bad as the bullshit I’m seeing today…

Bitcoin is not a Battery — it is a Sink

In a recent blogpost, Nick Grossman explains how Bitcoin acts as a battery — moving electricity across time and space, from where it can…

Playing with an X-Touch Mini controller using C#

Background As I wrote in my earlier blog post about using OSC to control a Behringer XR16, I’m working on code to make our A/V system at church much easier to work with. From an audio side, I…

score 0.4.0

A tool that helps you score a NuGet package.

JonDouglas/score

dotnet score. Contribute to JonDouglas/score development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ever Given Ever Ywhere

Why should the Suez Canal have all the fun? From the comfort of home you can get the Ever Given stuck wherever you want it. Drag and zoom the map to move this big old boat somewhere else. Click the rotate button to get it wedged perfectly.

harc/ohm

A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc. - harc/ohm

Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too

You may have noticed it's practically impossible to send me a message anywhere. I did that on purpose so I can spend my time how I want to spend it. I don't really use email and I have my direct message inboxes on every platform closed. And they have been

On Sperging Out

The boy who cried leopard.

Principled hypocrisy

Moving towards more optimal levels of guilt and morality