2 May 2022

48 links · Monday

Announcing Bolt & Forte partnership

Forte will leverage Bolt’s expertise in MPC & ZK proofs tech to provide security layer for 15M+ gamers following $9M investment in Bolt.

Automated testing: Everything you need to know

Recently I've been asked what constitutes good Software testing. How can you learn to write good tests? Easily if you stick to a couple of principles and adhere to them when writing your tests.

Working From Home: My Setup

Since the pandemic happened, I always wanted to create a minimal, but ergonomic working environment at home.

A Difficult Diagnosis (Part 1) - Ronny Liu

A history It’s February 2022. As I pull into the parking garage of a local hospital, I review the progression of the unknown condition that’s brought me here. At today’s appointment I’ll recount its many symptoms, a constellation of afflictions that’ve launche…

Leaving Lattice

Today I am stepping away from being a full-time employee of the company I started, Lattice. Unlike most other founders’ stories or articles you may have read…

Let's just kill the silly myths

I know that Ubuntu 22.04 is out and everyone's all fired up about everything and there's discussions on the net about snaps and flatpaks and appimages and all this stuff, so I'm tired of just reposting the same things so let me get the basics out of the way.

Growth vs Profitability

I recently saw a video from YC. It was a YC alumni talking about 'Growth vs Profit', and she was rationalizing about how focusing on growth first and having a 'plausible profitability story' is enough. She goes on to conclude that focusing growth is more impor…

Life Is a School of Probability

Texts on philosophy, poetry, literature, history, altruism, science, programming and music.

gRPC in .NET 6 with Anthony Giretti - The 6 Figure Developer

  Episode 241 Anthony is a passionated developer, Microsoft MVP, and MCSD. He is currently senior developer @ Sigma-HR, specializing in Web technologies.   Links https://anthonygiretti.com/ https://twitter.com/anthonygiretti https://github.com/AnthonyGiretti h…

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review (with Linux)

I’ve used Linux for many years on servers, but still kept macOS as my main working environment for almost ten years now. A few months ago, I gave up on macOS and started using Fedora as my main operating system on the ThinkPad P1 Gen3 15”.

May 2, 2022

They are app container SIDs.

Cloudflare Relay Worker

We are excited to open source a Cloudflare Worker that will make notifications available to any communication service that has webhook integration by transforming a generic webhook response to any required format

I won free load testing

Long story short: a couple of my articles got really popular on a bunch of sites, and someone, somewhere, went "well, let's see how much traffic that smart-ass can handle...

About

My name is Robert Wardhaugh and I am the Dungeon Master (DM). I am currently Professor of History at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The Game is mainly played from my basement set up…

My Two Cents on the PayHere Hack - Yohan Perera

PayHere an Internet Payment Gateway owned and operated by a Sri Lankan Technoprenuer was hacked. This blog post is my unsolicited opinion on the incident.

Those who got caught. How : overemployed

Not so much. If a meeting has collided, I'm going to skip one of them. And I'll never be missing from a meeting where I haven't communicated a reason ahead of time. And for those times, the people in the meeting know I'm a participator, and more likely be comp…

Those who got caught. How : overemployed

Not so much. If a meeting has collided, I'm going to skip one of them. And I'll never be missing from a meeting where I haven't communicated a reason ahead of time. And for those times, the people in the meeting know I'm a participator, and more likely be comp…

Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512

In software, it is a common problem to want to remove specific characters from a string. To make the problem precise, let us consider the removal of all ASCII control characters and spaces. In practice, it means the removal of all byte values smaller or equal …