25 April 2021

38 links · Sunday

FalixNodes - Make your dreams true, do not get limited by money.

Looking for nice hosting which also provides free services? You found it! FalixNodes is ideal hosting for your needs. Need to have small community server but not enough money? Use our free services! Looking for something huge? Get good services for cheaper tha…

An example of overengineering - keep it WET

This week’s post is pretty short. I’ve already written about overengineering, but this adds a personal touch. I had to rewrite my Jet Train demo to use another data provider, switching from a Swiss one to a Bay Area one. One of the main components of the demo …

Simple career advice

I have changed my jobs several times and I have struggled with the decision every time. Am I doing the right thing? Should I stay or try som...

Rage bug reporting : ezyang’s blog

At Facebook, we have an internal convention for tooling called "rage". When something goes wrong and you want to report a bug, the tool developer will typically ask you to give them a rage. For a command line tool, this can be done by running a rage subcommand…

3D Game Shaders For Beginners

Interested in adding textures, lighting, shadows, normal maps, glowing objects, ambient occlusion, reflections, refractions, and more to your 3D game? Great! 3D Game Shaders For Beginners is a collection of shading techniques that will take your game visuals t…

Redcrafter/verilog2factorio

This project will compile verilog (a hardware description language) into factorio blueprints. - Redcrafter/verilog2factorio

Feynman's Nobel Ambition

So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything, I've got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I'm going to play with physics,…

Quantum Computing with Richard Versluis — Developer Weekly

This week, I talk with Richard Versluis about Quantum Computing. Richard creates Quantum Computers and explains how they work, what you can do with them, how you can program one, and when you’ll have one in your home.

Deploying an Azure APIM Self-Hosted Gateway | Developer Support

Bryan Soltis explores Self-Hosted Gateways to provide secure, on-prem API access with cloud-based Azure APIM Management. When working with APIs, how traffic is routed is a REALLY important topic. Whether it’s for security, latency optimization, performance imp…

Setting Up Sass with Blazor

I’ve been using Sass (.scss) for web design for quite a few years now. I learned Sass from some of the best, working primarily with contributors who built th...

Customer Notice FAQs

Last updated 7th Dec 2020 Dear ShopBack Customer,   As of last week, we have invalidated unchanged passwords, completed a forced logout and requested that you change to a new password, as an additi...

Office chairs are a scam

A younger self employed pal asked me if he should dump $2k on a Herman Miller Aeron recently. The TLDR is “no.” It’s like spending $2k on a pair of sneakers blessed by a devil wor…

Today I learned in 2021

Today I learned in 2021 Living in the internet age, one tends to get overwhelmed with (often useless) facts on a daily basis. Fueled by hundreds of articles and studies via my RSS reader, social media, podcasts, journals and other content providers, I meet mor…

The Compiler Writer Resource Page

I know complete pans of the literature are left out, but this is a page for amateur compiler writers. Anything that I did not find practical is not listed here. (I also did not include the things that I do not yet know!) All the remarks in grey and even the s…

You are a hyper-carnivore

Yet might choose to be vegetarian Format observation: My posts tend to run very long and I appreciate they can be hard to read. I am trying out a new approach to combat this: each post will have a short…

W.C. Fan Why is there still no easy custom keyboard builder?

After using a loaned mechanical keyboard for quite some time, I decided to invest in my own. However, I have a (admittedly pretty rare) combination of requirements that mean I can’t get what I want out of the box. Those requirements are: