21 November 2021

22 links ยท Sunday

Never trust a programmer who says he knows C++ by Louis Brandy

I've been in an interviewing mindset for awhile and I've come to realize something important about C++ in particular. C++ is a "two peak" language. That is to say C++ is the only language I know of where two very different sets of programmers consider themselv…

Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation

Measuring the economic benefits conveyed by predators is difficult—often, effects are indirect and operate through complex ecological changes. As a result, debates about the expansion of predators have pit salient costs against more speculative estimates of be…

LLVM relicensing update & call for help

In this blog post, I’d like to summarize the main points I talked about in the relicensing update presentation at the 2021 LLVM Developer’s meeting. The very short summary is that we are currently in the long tail phase of collecting relicensing agreements of …

Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade (7390)

I’d recently bought a new XPS13 7390 (non 2-in-1) laptop. I had bought the 8GB variant, how hard could it be to upgrade?

Advent of Code 2021

The first puzzles will unlock on December 1st at midnight EST (UTC-5). See you then!

Lite3DP 3D Printer

An Arduino-based, open source MSLA / LCD-SLA resin micro 3D printer kit

What I Learned From My Date-Me Experiment

Last year, I published a “date me” survey with ~60 questions in an attempt to find a serious long-term partner. I designed it with a few categories – lifestyle choice compatibilit…

Documenting HTTP requests with Hurl

I don’t really remember anymore how I stumbled upon Hurl but nevermind that, it looks awesome! It’s basically a wrapper around cURL that allows you to write a handful of HTTP requests into a single plaintext file and execute them. You can then add assertions f…

The Comfort of Ignorance - Brian Di Croce

You can't learn everything in IT, but with enough time, dedication and an open mind, you can pretty much learn anything.

Empowering teams are like career accelerators

I follow several technical people whose stances on tech I can identify with in a few platforms, and, by far, Gergely Orosz has been one of the most influential people I’ve decided to follow, and, I’m glad I did! As a former Uber manager his posts and insights …

The Skeptic's Case for Personality Testing

Skeptics of personality testing will dismiss it as pseudoscience designed to make people feel good about themselves, psychological alchemy for wannabe-intellectuals, or "astrology for men."