8 September 2022

46 links · Thursday

Powers of Tau - Round 41

Generating public cryptography parameters in a private airplane using radioactive waste from Chernobyl as en entropy source!Powers of Tau Round 41 contributi...

On Joining NodeSource

The month of August came with a substantial change in direction for me. I decided to step down from my role at NearForm as an Engineering Manager.

(The Future of) Work

Should we accept idleness or at least purpose-free leisure as the new normal in a post-job era?

Cloud isn't just someone else's computer — tech ramblings

Ok, i mean, it IS indeed just someone else's computer. For the most part, it's either owned by Amazon, Google or Microsoft, and you're just running your code on their machines. But.. the change is much more nuanced than just a computer that you rent as opposed…

Science and the power of multiple hypotheses

When asked my opinion on various science-related topics that are in the news, my usual reply is, “I don’t know.” It’s not that I’m incapable of knowing. It’s tha…

Congress.gov API

Congress.gov shares its application programming interface (API) with the public to ingest the Congressional data. Sign up for an API key from api.data.gov that you can use to access web services provided by Congress.gov. To learn more, view our GitHub page.

Performance testing through proportional traces

As software becomes pervasive in our lives, more people rely on it to performincreasingly more complex tasks. Either because of impaired user experience orreal-time constraints, software performance tends to eventually become asimportant as software correctnes…

I don’t believe in Scrum

I read I Don’t Believe in Sprints yesterday and found myself disagreeing with almost all of the article, while agreeing strongly with its headline. Here’s my attempt to collect my thoughts about why.

Design Patterns: Who gives a 💩?

Should you care about design patterns? There are books devoted to them; heck, even I post videos about specific design patterns. But do they matter? If you'r...

Sign your Git commits with 1Password | 1Password

Developers can now use 1Password to set up and use SSH keys to sign Git commits, building on 1Password’s already robust support for SSH keys.

The NEW .NET 7 LINQ methods you didn't need

Check out my courses: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick and in ...

Battle of the Text Editors

I have always liked text editors. There is something promising about them, a blank canvas that you can quickly mess up with your random commented out lines. I went from BBEdit, my favorite Mac app of all time (seriously I love this app so much I bought a tshir…

Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB

A few months ago, I received a cryptic message from AirBnB that sounded like something straight out that Black Mirror episode with Jon…

Predict steel quality with Azure AutoML in manufacturing

Co-Authors: Lotta Åhag, Gustav Kruse, Erik Rosendahl. This post will guide you through how we, Lotta Åhag and Gustav Kruse, used Azure AutoML and the 'Enterprise Scale ML (ESML) solution accelerator for Azure', to build an end-2-end machine learning solution …

iOS 16

iOS 16 brings all-new personalized Lock Screens, Focus filters, Shared Photo Library, and game-changing messaging features to iPhone.

We Need To Talk About Texas featuring Beto O'Rourke

Texas Governor candidate Beto O'Rourke joins Eugene Lee Yang for this in-depth exploration of the people, history, politics, and misconceptions about the Lon...

Current Report 8-K

Security and Exchange Commission SEC Form 8-K

The world is full of Asynchronous Workflow

Asynchronous Workflow is everywhere! A great example is a restaurant to illustrate how Asynchronous Workflow can work in software systems.

SPF record Checker | SPF record Tester - Mimecast | DMARC Analyzer

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Zig, the small language

Zig programming language is new, but it's getting a well deserved attention. Can it be a good fit for small-and-simple programming tasks?