29 September 2021

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Snapps on Mina with Emre and Izaak – ZK Podcast

In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Emre Tekişalp and Izaak Meckler about what’s new with Mina, O(1) Labs, the network launch and of course the anticipated release of Snapps to testnet later this year. We learn all about how Snapps, these SNARK-powered app…

Intelligent Trip

After years of building, our top-notch consultancy to help start-ups and scale-ups create great, scalable products, I think it is high time I added an update to how it is going and what's next for us.

CSAW Quals 2021 Bits

CryptoHack was asked to make some challenges for CSAW 2021 and Bits was our submission for the qualifiers, written by Robin and Jack. For those who qualified for the finals, you’ll have the chance to solve a few more CryptoHack challenges, but for now, we want…

Narrative Distillation - kwokchain

The shifting sands of tech IPOs If the IPO process is like a debutante ball, the top investment banks are akin to a finishing school. They help gussy up companies, teach them proper manners like how to do GAAP accounting, and bring them around to call on prosp…

Introduction — pyNomo Documentation 0.3.2.0 documentation

A nomogram or nomograph is a diagram that provides an easy, graphical way of calculating the result of a mathematical formula. Sometimes also called an alignment chart, a nomogram consists of a set of numbered scales, usually one for each variable in the formu…

Trust Founders who wear Silly Watches over Diamond Rolexes

This is Vitalik Buterin's watch, available for $100 USD. Why is it better to trust a founder wearing a Silly Watch over a Diamond Rolex?  TLDR; When short-term founders are cashing out and...

Fighting climate change as a technologist

“Quitting smoking is too hard, I will never succeed”. You may already have heard this kind of affirmation from someone who doesn’t have the courage to stop tobacco. Of course they will quit smoking, on the latest the day of their life in the worst case. And, u…

How to replace Gmail

An alarming amount of Gmail users report their accounts one day, without notice, disabled.

CGW Museum - Home

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OLD VIDEO GAME ADVERTISEMENTS

digital game advertisements from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. focus on computers

DateOnly and TimeOnly in .NET 6 (#222)

.NET 6 introduces two new types to represent dates and times separately. In this episode, we explore the DateOnly and TimeOnly types and talk about why they ...

Atari ST in daily use since 1985

Atari ST in daily use since 1985This video is sponsored by PCBwayIf you want your circuit board design realised and printed, You should check out https://www...

Avalanche (AVAX) is launching on Coinbase Pro

Starting Today, Wednesday September 29, transfer AVAX into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for AVAX will generally be…

A World Without Sci-Hub

Sci-Hub has become foundational for scientific research. What if we didn’t need it at all?

Christians in Game Dev / Journalism

The information you put in here will be kept completely confidential. I may contact you in the future if there is sufficient interest in starting a more intentional community (think: mailing list / email pair-ups / Discord / Slack / whatever the kids are doing…

How I organise my Blazor components

Consistency is key and make your components work harder to prove they're actually the 'same thing'

SimulaVR

The Simula One is an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux Desktop. It provides comparable functionality to any Linux laptop or PC, but with the power of VR:

Cloudflare for Offices

We are extending Cloudflare’s network directly into over 1,000 of the most populated office buildings.

Dude, Where’s My Stuff? | J.P. Morgan Asset Management

The global supply chain mess will require increased vaccination and acquired immunity, semiconductor capacity expansion and the end of extraordinary housing/labor supports to resolve. A close look at some very anomalous charts on shipping, semiconductors, inv…

The difference between Go and Rust – dominikbraun.io

Go is regularly criticized for odd decisions and idiosyncrasies, while Rust is celebrated as an almost perfectly designed alternative that solves Go's problems. But in fact, Go and Rust are far from interchangeable.

How to visualize decision tree

Decision trees are the fundamental building block of gradient boosting machines and Random Forests(tm), probably the two most popular machine learning models for structured data. Visualizing decision trees is a tremendous aid when learning how these models wor…

About Offline First · RxDB

Offline-First is a software paradigm where the software must work as well offline as it does online. To implement this, you have to store data at the client side, so that your application can still access it when the internet goes away. This can be either done…

Sysinternals 25th anniversary event: October 14, 2021

On October 14, 2021, we are hosting a special event to celebrate 25 years of Sysinternals, the utilities IT pros and developers around the world turn to for help with analyzing, troubleshooting, and optimizing Windows systems and applications. The day begins…

The Equivalence contravariant functor

An introduction to the Equivalence contravariant functor for object-oriented programmers.

Let's Make Some Art - Part 2

In part 1, we had our computer draw some boxes. I want to go in a different direction here to lead up to part 3. This time I want to explore reading pixels from an existing image.

WFH assumptions based on faulty data

I read a few new posts about remote work productivity that were, if I can be ...

Announcing: Azure credits for open source projects - Microsoft Open Source Blog

Open source software is an integral part of development at Microsoft, aligned with our goal to empower all developers to be successful building any application, using any language, on any platform. We are committed to building open, flexible technology and wor…