23 May 2021

26 links · Sunday

The trouble with capitalism

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God .  (Matthew 19:24) For what wil...

C is not a serious programming language – keeping simple

The C Standards process over the last few decades has addressed both optimization and pointer type safety largely through a concept called “undefined behavior”.  The idea is that instead of  positive rules for what compilers and programmers can do, the Standar…

Top to bottom; bottom to top

Need I remind you: the human race now sends robots to Mars. That is a thing we do! We derive that absurd capability from generations of previous epistemological revolutions which we compound and...

Hacking third-party APIs on the JVM

The JVM ecosystem is mature and offers plenty of libraries, so you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Basic - and not so basic - functionalities are just a dependency away. Sometimes, however, the dependency and your use-case are slightly misaligned. The correc…

On weakness

I had an identity crisis from a problem that made me weak, and learned weakness is not being weak.

A hacker mindset

Sometimes to solve a problem we tend to choose a set of tools we got used to. How often we pick a tool just because we know it, and not necessarily because it's the right one for a task at hand? These are my rules to overcome that.

.NET Foundation

You've found the heartbeat of .NET—where projects and communities come together to get things done in our open-source world. Share your skills for the greater good. Meet in person, get involved virtually, and stay on top of the latest news, meetups, and events…

TMX Replay Investigation

Trackmania United Forever is a racing game in which the goal is to complete any track as fast as possible. Players compete against each other for the fastest times on tracks, and in order to keep records centralized, the community developed a website called Tr…

a327ex/SNKRX

A replayable arcade shooter where you control a snake of heroes. - a327ex/SNKRX

git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII found that the existing Julian calendar insufficiently represented reality, and changed the rules about calculating leap years to account for this. Similarly, in A.D. 2013 Rockchip hardware engineers found that the new Gregorian …

CSS Isolation in ASP.NET Core 6.0

This article will discuss about CSS Isolation in ASP.NET Core 6.0. CSS isolation simplifies an app’s CSS footprint by preventing dependencies on global styles and helps to avoid styling conflicts among components and libraries. CSS Isolation is enabled by defa…

Marak.com

I write Open-source software occasionally. I have a project which is currently popular called faker.js. I've been working on Faker for over a decade. It's MIT licensed.

Ask Anything with a Retired Microsoft Developer!

If you have (polite and reasonable) questions about the Microsoft tools and tech of the 90s and beyond, retired operating system developer Davepl is here to ...

How to Get Rich

A collection of all my interviews about my ‘How to Get Rich’ tweetstorm.  Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep You probably know Naval from his Twitter account. We’re going to talk about his tweetstorm, “How To Get Rich (…