9 July 2022

22 links · Saturday

Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" Synth Sounds | Reverb Machine

Kate Bush has had an enormous impact on modern music, as a musician her adoption of the Yamaha CS-80 synth and CMI Fairlight sampler empowered her to be more creative. Bush released four albums before finally building her own studio in 1985, and subsequently r…

You Should Pay for Tutors - Scott H Young

One-on-one instruction is highly underrated. Here's why you should get tutors for the skills and subjects you care about.

The Nested Corner Case — Carlos Nuila

If you’re like me and get spooked by non-concentric corners then you’ll be happy to know that there is an easy fix!

Issues in Replacing OpenSSL – Security Poodle

A couple of weeks ago I tweeted about “what would it take to replace OpenSSL”? You can see my tweet thread and responses here. I phrased my question poorly: I didn’t make it clear that the intent was to replace OpenSSL within an organization which already had…

Printers Are Demons

Printers are the bane of my existence.

Downloading Academic Papers Automatically

Ebib is a great bibliography manager that can be extended in various useful ways. I’ll go over my procedure of how I added automatic downloading of papers to ebib bib entries.

I've come to hate the term Best Practice | Ashlan's blog

<p>I'm not against the concept or idea of Best Practice, but just like Communism, when its deployed in the real world, things don't go as planned. Best practice, despite its innocent sounding name, doesn't necessary mean its always good. Best practice simply m…

Proebsting's Law

This means that while hardware computing horsepower increases at roughly 60%/year, compiler optimizations contribute only 4%. Basically, compiler optimization work makes only marginal contributions.

AutoRegex

Converting plain english to RegEx with Natural Language Processing

Security Incident at Our Email Vendor

Recently, an employee of our email vendor, Customer.io, used their access to Customer.io systems to download and share a set of email addresses with an unauthorized third party. Late last night, Customer.io informed us that the data extracted included email ad…

MAUI Developer Day in GCR, Sat, Jul 9, 2022, 9:00 AM | Meetup

Sat, Jul 9, 9:00 AM CST: 作為一個支援在單一函式庫中開發能夠運行在 Android、iOS、macOS 和 Windows 等跨平台應用程式的跨平台框架,.NET MAUI (跨平台應用程式用戶端介面)還在預覽版時就已備受關注。 千呼萬喚始出來。終於,在今年的 Microsoft Build 2022 上,.NET MAUI 正式發布。 對於 .NET MAUI,

CrowdSec - The open-source & collaborative security IPS

CrowdSec is an open-source and collaborative security stack leveraging the crowd power. Analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community. Join the community and le's make the Internet safer, together.

Hacker News Status

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