13 May 2022

33 links · Friday

Computing π By Hand with a 1700 Year Old Algorithm

This post looks at computing by hand a result for pi using a process first described in the 3rd century. This same algorithm yielded the world’s most accurate valuation for the ratio of circle circumference to diameter until the 16th century.

Introducing Lurk: A programming language for recursive zk-SNARKs

We are excited to announce that the Lurk programming language repositories are now open to the public. Lurk is a Turing-complete programming language for recursive zk-SNARKs (zero knowledge Succinct Non-interactive ARguments of Knowledge) that will enable new …

What’s behind China’s boom in company formation?

Here is an interesting empirical fact about the Chinese economy that does not easily fit into the usual narratives: under Xi Jinping, more new private-sector companies are being created every year …

How i fixed my broken monitor with a hair dryer

RIP beloved GD245HQ ☠️? In 2010 i bought the Acer GD245HQ for 430€. The main reason for me at that time was gaming performance especially a high refresh rate. It also works with Nvidia 3D Vision and s

Laptopia

A semi-serious description of the massive brain damage I suffered from buying and setting up a new laptop

Everyone can be grateful.

I have observed that there are times when I feel I don't have enough. Sometimes I think, "I wish I had that computer setup. I would be 10x productive" or someti

Idea machines

Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished?

Take my app ideas

I would rather give away my favorite ideas than to let them go to waste. Please do something with them.

23,000 Devices Shipped! Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

Many backers have already received their Flipper Zeros, and their number is growing by the day. At the time of writing, 23 thousand devices have already been shipped! We're getting a ton of feedback from users and it's amazing. Unfortunately, there is still …

Cities with Nice Weather

I live near Toronto. It’s springtime, and currently about 30 °C. In my opinion, Toronto is too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. I’d like to know which cities have the least deviation from a tolerable average temperature.

Deploying a Static Site to Azure Using the az CLI

This post is about deploying a static sites to Azure storage account using Azure CLI and configuring GitHub actions to deploy the files. Recently I wrote a blog post on enabling Angular GZip encoding - in this post I am deploying the changes using Azure CLI an…

Complex State Management in React

Complex state in React is managing many different state changes in many different components. I’ll recommend two libraries, plus tell you what won’t work.

Announcing TypeScript 4.7 RC

Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 4.7! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 4.7, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet,

GitHub - Azure-Samples/dotNET-Frontend-AB-Testing-on-Azure-Container-Apps: Demonstration of how ASP.NET Core developers can use Azure App Configuration's Feature Flags capabilities with Azure Container App revisions to A/B test front end apps.

Demonstration of how ASP.NET Core developers can use Azure App Configuration's Feature Flags capabilities with Azure Container App revisions to A/B test front end apps. - GitHub - Azure-Sample...

Weekly Update 295

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Stripe Login | Sign in to the Stripe Dashboard

Sign in to the Stripe Dashboard to manage business payments and operations in your account. Manage payments and refunds, respond to disputes and more.

Map of Reddit

This website shows a map of reddit. Each dot is a subreddit. Two dots within the same cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users frequently leave comments on both subreddits

Secret detection needs to be free, even for private repositories

Secrets can grant access to data, impact production operations, access third party systems down the software supply chain, and introduce a reputational risk. They can be found in source code, production and CI/CD logs, Docker images, Slack channels, or even on…