The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun
It cost a researcher only $25 worth of parts to create a tool that allows custom code to run on the satellite dishes.
Comparing Linux Environments on macOS Host
Running a Linux VM from my MacBook Pro is how I spend much of my time during software development. In this post, I compare multiple solutions to this problem, with a focus on how they perform with I/O operations. Background On my MacBook Pro, my p…
How We Can Learn from History
The question of how we can learn useful lessons from history, which would help us navigate the troubled waters ahead has been much on my mind. You can find some of my thoughts on this
My life is a litmus test - Deep South Ventures
I’m never quite sure what pursuits might strike my fancy; so I’ll try most anything & study it like a litmus test. Toss that shit into a petry dish, stir it up, & dip my awareness into it. what color did that thing turn? I won’t know unti…
Climate policy numbers
Nuclear Terror and Game Theory
1. Introduction
Making Notes Work for Me: Reflections after 2 Years of Digital Gardening
My thoughts on note taking, personal wikis, digital gardens and zettelkastens.
Someone Told Me to Build an MVP
MVP, or minimum viable product, is one of many acronyms tossed around without a shared understanding. In this article, I'll break down the…
I developed a game to fix my burnout. It sucks.
I’m a burnt-out programmer, never an artist. Okay? I’m a typical burnt-out programmer due to typical reasons. And this time, it’s particularly bad. I literally want to throw up multiple times when I’m coding this damn game and also struggling to finish the gam…
Excel is Pretty Dang Cool
It's like discovering a treasure chest under my kitchen sink
Coffee Cup Holes
Microsoft, AWS Lead Cloud AI Developer Services Evaluations -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) led a host of vendors in an evaluation of cloud AI developer services published by research firm Gartner.
GA Release of Visual Studio for Mac 17.3 Intros User Secrets for Sensitive Info -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft this week shipped Visual Studio for Mac 17.3, introducing support for User Secrets among a host of updates.
Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to help give crawlers hints about when they should recrawl, if new content has been added, or if content on a site has recently changed
Ezra Miller Headline Generator
Generates Headlines about Ezra Miller by taking a random selection of a federal crime and state...
Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
Translating Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go.
Architectural optimizations vs the profiler
For the past couple of years, we had a stealth project going on inside of RavenDB. That project is meant to re-architect the internals of how RavenDB handles...
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 14: Barriers
Keeping things in the right order.
JavaScript Callback Functions Explained in 1 Minute #shorts #webdevelopment
Let's explain JavaScript callback functions in under a minute. STAY IN TOUCH 👋Check out the Podcast - compress.fmNewsletter 🗞 - https://www.jamesqquick.com...
Goat Rental - Hire Goats
See a listing of all goat rental companies in your area! Stop the spread of brush, unwanted vegetation, and wildfires.
Code Maze Weekly #134 - Code Maze
Issue #134 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Top Picks Fun With Custom Interpolated String Handlers [khalidabuhakmeh.com] We can all agree that string interpolation was an excellent addition to C#. But did …
Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews
I put together a list and explained why they are important. Those algorithms are not only useful for interviews but good to understand for any software engineer. One thing to keep in mind is that understanding “how those algorithms are used in real-world syste…
From Oscilloscope to Wireshark - A UDP Story
UDP is a transport-level protocol for sending messages through an IP network.
How to present to executives.
Have you presented to company executives about a key engineering initiative, walking into the room excited and leaving defeated? Maybe you only made it to your second slide before unrelated questions derailed the discussion. Maybe you worked through your entir…
A lesson in shortcuts. Long ago, as the design of the Unix file system was b...
A lesson in shortcuts. Long ago, as the design of the Unix file system was being worked out, the entries . and .. appeared, to make navigation easier. ... - Rob Pike - Google+
reb00ted | Is this the end of social networking?
Scott Rosenberg, in a piece with the title “Sunset of the social network”, writes at Axios:
Episode 434 - Azure Traffic Manager
Evan and Cynthia speak with Abhishek Tiwari, Director of Software Engineering about the diverse types of situations traffic manager can be used in, how Microsoft has built a service to support 100% SLA, and how traffic manager can even be leveraged as part of …