9 May 2022

48 links · Monday

NY State Senate Bill S5474

Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payme…

Taxes And The Ultra Rich

A recent leak of the tax records of the world's richest people showed how little they pay in taxes. This article argues that tax write offs for charitable deductions should be eliminated for the rich and the rich should voluntarily pay more taxes as another fo…

Addiction and balance

I’ve started thinking more and more about addiction. I am not, in the classic sense, in any way an addict. But I think my addictions are taking up too much of my life. I first realised how co…

Cloudflare Pages + Hugo

This is my new favorite combo – also how this website is built upon.

Job Posting: Reddit Research Czar

Job postings are a kinda weird phenomenon. For one thing, they’re very modern. It used to be that most people either inherited a job (I’m a baker because my pa was a baker and our tiny hamlet needs…

Why web3 storage matters

This blog posts explains why Web3 permaweb storage matters

Patenting Your Perpetual Motion Machine

As a patent attorney, I am bound by two different sets of laws–the human and the physical–and I foolishly expected others to feel the same. I should have known better, and I am sorry.

Reducing Interview Bias

In 2011, researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel and Columbia University found Judges’ rulings are affected by lunch breaks. The judges granted 65% of parole requests at the beginning of the day. The rate declined steadily until a lunch break, after whi…

Customising the Umbraco Pipeline

The excuse for today's post is I need somewhere to write up some findings from an Umbraco support case I've been looking into. A customer wa...

The Two Generals Problem

Alice and Bob Imagine there’s a city in a valley. On either side of the valley, there’s an army commanded by a general. On the left hill stands General

I Saw a Cool Truck Today

If you ever see it too, thank London

305: Breaking Your Own APIs

When is the time to make breaking changes that could completely upset every single user of your library? James is in this situation, and we discuss his options.

Use a gateway service for a software UI with micro services architecture?

In this post, I would like to look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of using an implemented gateway service to process all UI API requests, optimize the business and remove some of the c…

Auto-Regenerating API Client for Your Open API Project

You can generate up-to-date client code for your API, on solution build, leveraging the power of swagger and NSwag. This post is inspired by and builds on Generating HTTP API clients using Visual Studio Connected Services - .NET Blog (microsoft.com).  Prerequi…

Babylon.js 5.0: Beyond The Stars – Part 1

Our mission is to create one of the most powerful, simple, and aesthetically pleasing web rendering engines in the world. Fueled by our passion to make it completely open and free for everyone. Today is an important milestone for the Babylon.js plat

Styling `select` elements for real

Styling <select> elements consistently across browsers has long been a difficult task. While it is now possible to style the button part of a <select>, styling its contents – the box that contains the list of o