29 January 2022

31 links · Saturday

Microsoft, Autism, and the 1990s: Dave and Joelle

Joelle Seal interviews Dave Plummer on his years at Microsoft in the 90s and on the topic of Autism; from the University of Regina Book Talk (Secrets of the ...

Technical details for satellite NOAA 15

NOAA 15 (designated NOAA-K before launch) is one of the NASA-provided TIROS series of weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. The satellite is placed in a sun-synchronous orbit, 807 km above the Earth, orbiting every 101 minutes....

Technical details for satellite NOAA 18

NOAA 18, known before launch as NOAA-N, is a weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. NOAA-N (18) was launched into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 854 km above the Earth, with an orbital period of 102 minutes....

Technical details for satellite NOAA 19

NOAA 19 is the fifth in a series of five Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) with advanced microwave sounding instruments that provide imaging and sounding capabilities. Circling 530 statute miles [850 km] above Earth and completing a …

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Connecting gadgets to Blazor

Blazor is fun, Gadgets are fun, now imagine you could combine these two! We will take a look at how Bluetooth LE works, how to figure out a BLE Protocol, and...

People don't work as much as you think

There is a persistent idea that people work 40 hours a week. They don't, and if you try to do this it will break you. Here are some more reasonable guidelines.

Top 5 Tips and Tricks for Better Development Lifecycle

Creating a secure SDLC process demands dedication and effort in each phase, from a collection of requirements to deployment and maintenance. It requires a change of mind in the development team to focus on security at every project stage rather than focusing o…

Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

OCaml - Generalized algebraic datatypes

Generalized algebraic datatypes, or GADTs, extend usual sum types in two ways: constraints on type parameters may change depending on the value constructor, and some type variables may be existentially quantified. Adding constraints is done by giving an explic…

In defense of NIR

NIR has been an integral part of the Mesa driver stack for about six or seven years now (depending on how you count) and a lot has changed since NIR first landed at the end of 2014 and I wrote my initial NIR notes. Also, for various reasons, I’ve had to give m…

Teleporting thru Information Space

I’m really excited by the research effort proposed in Towards a Dynamic Multiscale Personal Information Space, a 2020 paper advocating more ‘convivial’1 information spaces. As the authors describe it, when a user interacts with the computer: The system offers…

Old Man Yells at Cloud

Hinted at earlier this week and made official today, MacOS 12.3 will be dropping support for the kernel extension used by cloud storage providers like Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. They will instead be required to use Apple’s File Provider extension, origina…

Fun with Node experimental modules and loaders

If you are a front-end or a fullstack developer, you maybe already imported CSS files from a Javascript or a Typescript file. For instance: import styles from "./styles.css" A few months ago it would not have been possible out of the shelf. Indeed you would ne…