Growing Object-Oriented Software vs what I would do
TL;DR: I review Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests and contrast it with my personal approach to developing software, expla...
The local minima of suckiness
How to become good by getting slowly less bad
ongoing by Tim Bray · Apps Getting Worse
Too often, a popular consumer app unexpectedly gets worse: Some combination of harder to use, missing features, and slower. At a time in history where software is significantly eating the world, this is nonsensical. It’s also damaging to the lives of …
Micah Lerner
This is the fourth paper in a series on “The Future of the Shell”Here are links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. . These weekly paper reviews can be delivered weekly to your inbox, or you can subscribe to the new Atom feed. Over the next few weeks I will be read…
I closed a lot of browser tabs
I am widely admired at work for my ability to have many, many browser tabs open. (That, at least, is what I take from the frequent shouts of "holy cow, man, look at your browser!") Nonetheless, I have long thought that it would be worth getting my total tab …
Hey Signal! Great Encryption Needs Great Authentication
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
BeerCon3 (#BC3) Call for Presentations
Use the form to drop us your proposal to present at our third annual festival! We will only use this information as part of the organisation and running of the conference.
BeerCon3 - Game of Pwns
This time. we're back with a fresh bunch of rookies, but also the cast of BC2, sharing their experiences since our last conference.
Making an OS (x86) Chapter 5 - Reading the disk with BIOS
Corrections:-More info: - https://stanislavs.org/helppc/int_13.html (really valuable resource!!)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H
Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all
New policy brings UKRI-funded research in line with European open-access push
Newsletter Week 31, 2021
Sergey .NET Sergey .NET tok a good long summer vacation and will continue with blog post in the blog series about .NET Core Worker Service. It is about Messaging with Worker Service using Azure Service Bus. BlogsPart 1: Why do we need a StringBuilder and when …
Space Station Incident Demands Independent Investigation
A space expert warns NASA's safety culture may be eroding again
OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop
by joshua stein
Using Angular's Base HREF in Paths
I was recently working with a client and they were having an odd problem with Angular. They'd build their Angular apps in isolation then move them into an ASP.NET Core project and their asset links would break. Let's look at why this happens and how to address…
The Mysterious Street Snack That Has Baffled Botanists for Decades
Even DNA tests have yet to confirm its identity.
Dimmer won't turn off - Offizielles Shelly Support Forum
I just got my first dimmer and installed it to some leds in my living room. The problem is that the leds will not turn off completely when I turn it off in the app or on the physical switch. It only dims down to maybe 40% and when I dim it down to 1%…
Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing
They force you to look at the world the way an AI does