6 July 2022

54 links · Wednesday

Advanced SSH usage

The SSH protocol, version 2, is one of the foundations of modern and secure computer networks. It is cryptographically sound, fast, incredibly versatile, and virtually ubiquitous. Not even the largest cloud providers try to replace it with some alternative, pr…

Haircuts and leadership

Today as I was getting my haircut, I noticed a situation that made me think about the role of a leader in an organization. What made today different than any other haircut? Today, the owner of the …

Octopus Intelligence and the Puzzle of Sociality

1. Introduction In the animal kingdom, it pays to be social. For example, ants, bees, termites, and other animals that exhibit the highest level of social organization, eusociality, greatly outweig…

Celebrating the Standard Model: The Forces of Nature

A post for general readers: This is the first of several posts celebrating the hugely successful Standard Model of particle physics, the concepts and equations that describe the basic bricks and mo…

How Clojure works for you

Dear Janet, I hope this email finds you well. I know I'm just a fictional character in a fictional email to set up the hook for this blog post, but I was wondering if you could help me speed up our slow library. We use the best algorithms money can

Focusing

Some tricks I've acquired for managing ADHD.

Moving to Source Hut — bayindirh

I have been following the whole GitHub Copilot issue for a while, and I was not happy about Microsoft using open-source code hosted in GitHub without consent for training Copilot.

DDoS attack trends for 2022 Q2

Welcome to our 2022 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network

30DaysOfLearning: Machine Learning Summary

We have gone far beyond learning all the numerous Machine Learning concepts and techniques, now it is time to put into practice what we have been learning. But first, a recap:    In the 30DaysOfLearning, we cover different Machine Learning techniques, that as …

What's new in T-SQL in SQL Server 2022 - Simple Talk

There are many new features in SQL Server 2022. In relation to T-SQL querying, there are a few as well and they usually are left for last in face of many

Excel, data loss, IEEE754, and precision | endjin

The world runs on Excel, and misuse has caused some infamous data loss incidents. This post explores what happens when identifiers fall foul of Excel's numeric precision rules.

Dual EC or the NSA's Backdoor: Explanations

I've done a new video. It is an explanation following the paper Dual EC: A Standardized Backdoor by Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange and Ruben Niederhagen. ...

Stop choosing the “wrong” .NET version

The first 100 of you to use coupon code SUMMER2022 get 20% off my courses at https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www....

Coding Shorts: Nested Routing in Vue.js

I've been working on a new Microservice example and I'm writing the client in Vue.js. Due to the nature of the project, I needed to use Nested Routing. I thought this might be a good topic for a Coding Short.

Building a Recipe App on Vultr’s Platform

Taking Flight with Vultr Back in February, I made a very exciting move by joining Vultr as Senior Director of Engineering. Vultr is an independent cloud provider that has been in the industry for roughly 20 years. Over the last several years, this has become a…