A practical understanding of lead acid batteries The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy.
Scales of cities, scales of software American cities seem like a product of industrial processes where older European cities seem like a product of human processes. This is because most American cities were built after and alongside the car and the industrial revolution – the design of citie...
Monero Developers Disclose ‘Significant’ Bug in Privacy Algorithm - Decrypt A newly discovered flaw in Monero’s code allows onlookers to pinpoint real transactions among numerous “decoys.”
Release Release v2.2.0 · Webreaper/Damselfly New Features: Multi-user support with authentication, roles and entitlements Ability to exclude certain folders from being indexed by creating a .nomedia file in the folders .Net 6 preview 7 Impro...
Amazon.com: Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Audible Audio Edition): Will Larson, Shaula Evans, Will Larson: Books Amazon.com: Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Audible Audio Edition): Will Larson, Shaula Evans, Will Larson: Books
How I Nearly Lost the Lightroom Catalog with All of My Photos A cautionary tale of how a botched migration to Synology NAS left me with 500GB of corrupt RAW files.
Guides for reaching Staff-plus engineering roles - StaffEng Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.
Custom Search Engine I’ve done a little hacking on the Searx metasearch engine [[software]] [1] to allow restricting searches to pre-configured lists of sites. This replicates the functionality of the now-defuct Rollyo service [2] or Bing Custom Search [3].
Summary after Four Months with Ada — Programming with Ada documentation For the last four months I’ve been learning and writing Ada 2012. I wanted to share my experiences with the language for those who aren’t familiar with it. I’m neither endorsing or denouncing Ada. For those unfamiliar with Ada terms, I’ll using the vernac...
Adding support for VisualStudio 2022 to your extension Taking leverage of MsBuild to support multiple versions of VisualStudio
Reverse engineering software licencing from early-2000s abandonware – Part 1 This series concerns a software licencing system used in a proprietary software application from circa 2004. The software was available in an unregistered trial mode with limited functionality. A free licence could be obtained by registering online with t...
Space Nerds In Space - A Multi-player Starship Bridge Simulator Space Nerds In Space is an open source (GPLv2) cooperative multiplayer starship simulator for linux (may also work on Mac). So go out and get together with a crew of your linux-nerd friends and their computers in a room with a projector or TV, and go fort...
Everyone Else Thinks This Game is Awesome A trivia game that you can win either by knowing the truth, or knowing who doesn’t. By Zach and Kelly Weinersmith
If Megachurches Were Honest | Honest Ads (Mars Hill, Hillsong, Bethel, Lakewood Church Parody) There's nothing quite like claiming your tax-free, multi-million dollar enterprise is inspired by an intentionally homeless, apolitical, friend of prostitute...
Accent Expert Breaks Down Language Pet Peeves | WIRED For all intensive purposes, dialect coach Erik Singer is literally an expert when it comes to language. So, who better to curve our hunger for knowledge than...
Streaming requests with the fetch API Chrome 85 has an experimental implementation of streaming uploads, which you can use on live sites using the origin trial.