8 January 2022

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Bevy - Bevy 0.6

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

YAN Is the Business Bank With a Digital Marketplace, Eric Novinson

The neobank YAN offers business account holders a digital marketplace where they can sell their products, as well as sales tools for third-party marketplaces.

Elasticlunr Query DSL

Like every other search engine, you can make more advanced search queries depending on your requirements. In the remaining part of this post, I will be highlighting the available query types provided by Elasticlunr.

Sending messages as I drift off to sleep | David Bieber

My new Messager setup, allows me to send messages directly from Roam Research _or_ from a standalone keyboard (with no monitor) that I keep at my bedside as I drift off to sleep.

Tech I want to focus in 2022

It's been a while since I wrote anything here. I wanted to write this in December, but couldn't. I gave this a lot of thought and took my interests, needs and skill gaps into account to prepare this list. This is not a prediction of what will get bi...

T-Shaped People and Academia

Being on the lookout for recruiting new students for my new research group, I wanted to distil some of my observations into textual form. This post deals with my impression that academia is doing a disservice to ‘T-shaped persons,’ i.e. persons combining deep …

DuckDuckGo Traffic

Daily DuckDuckGo search traffic since 2010.

BookStack

BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

Show Missing Files 2022 - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio - Find files references in project files that don't exist on disk, and optionally files that do exist on disk that aren't included in a project. Runs on Build. Missing files are listed in Error List wi

How a routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions

On November 5, 2021 (a Friday of course), we've deployed innocent-looking gem updates. Minor versions of Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sentry client, Ruby Slack client, http libraries, Puma, Devise, OmniAuth Ruby client, Mongoid, and a few test gems. However, somethin…

Get Sysinternals Suite - Microsoft Store

Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Sysinternals Suite.

Returns & Refunds

We have a 30-days return policy, and in order to be eligible, the article purchased must be in the conditions it was received. To process a refund – considering it is applicable – send an email to support@serremo.com detailing full name, order number, descript…

In response to Moxie's doubts on web3

Moxie just wrote his first impressions on web3. If you've been wondering about web3, and want a non-bullshit and technical glance at what it is, I think this is a really good post. While I do agree with his critics, I don't share his skepticism. Let's look at …

Things you might not know about CSharp - Duck Typing

This is the next part of my series taking a look at some of the lesser known features of the C# language. Today we will be looking at duck typing and how it is used in C#. Much like the previous article, your millage may vary in terms of actually using these f…

Blogs should be Trees | tgalal

Introduction to this blog as well as an overview of the data model of its posts and the motivation behind it.

How do One-Time passwords work?

Many of us use one-time passwords (OTP) regularly to log into different services. Most probably rely on Google Authenticator and similar tools. But what about building one by ourselves?

Creating Engineering Principles for your Team

Actionable tips & tricks to define your engineering principles and increase your team firepower

Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?

While developing a simple app that I really wanted to publish on the App Store, I ran into a lot more limitations than I was prepared for. This is a story of how I overcame those limitations and then tried to understand why other useful apps chose the self-pub…