12 February 2022

29 links · Saturday

Weekly Update 282

My New Focusrite DAC; Early Workshops; Digicert EV Bullshit; TripIt Wants Your DoB; Travelling and Speaking Again

Let's Make Some Art - Part 1

I saw a tweet from @James_M_South, creator of the amazing ImageSharp library where he mentioned there wasn't a lot of public chatter about said library. Now, I know nothing about image processing or graphics. But, I've been wanting to learn more about creating…

Staking

Last year, I raised $100k from friends to run fully-staked validator nodes on 3 different blockchains. We made $300k and learned a lot. Here’s the stuff I found interesting: Inconsistent Rewards These networks weren’t designed explicitly to infuriate little no…

Melb.NET Feb 2022 ONLINE Meetup | Meetup

Tue, 15 Feb, 6:30 pm AEDT: First event for 2022! We will start the night by celebrating 🎉 the 20th anniversary of .NET and have some prize giveaways. Then welcome our first speaker for the year Lac

Announcing TypeScript 4.6 RC - TypeScript

Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 4.6! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 4.6, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet,

A Rust match made in hell

I often write pieces that showcase how well Rust can work for you, and how it can let you build powerful abstractions, and prevent you from a bunch of mistakes. And that makes m...

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Startup Kama Sutra: Why positioning matters

I've been thinking a lot about positioning for the last few weeks. Not the kind of positioning you might associate with the Kama Sutra, but rather positioning in the sense of where a product stands in relation to others offering similar products. In particular…

Host your static 11ty site on Google Cloud

I am working on a fake product for a fake business. Of course, I need a marketing site for my fake app! It's a static web site so I'm using my favorite site generator, 11ty. Of course, you could use the same approaches below with any static site generator or h…

Latest Beeping Busy Beaver Results

The Busy Beaver question asks: what is the longest that a Turing machine program of n states and k colors can run when started on the blank tape before halting? The function that maps from (n, k) to the longest run length is uncomputable and grows faster than …

The case for time-tracking

Time tracking has a bad reputation, it invokes images of managers watching over your shoulder or pay being docked as you punched in minutes before your shift ended. Due to these, and many more, if you suggest to someone to start tracking their time they’re lik…

A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other

I once worked at a place that had an interesting little problem stemming from the way they managed machines and some of the fun side-effects processes can have on each other. This is back in the pre-systemd days of running services, such that things tended…