Microsoft Announces New Azure Space Capabilities Recently Microsoft announced a series of updates around Azure Space, their offering combing cloud and space. The company now brings Azure Orbital to general availability (GA), offers a new service with Azure Orbital Cloud Access in preview, and advances t...
The Curious Design of Skateboard Trucks A deep dive into the physics of skateboard trucks & their flaws, and speculation on why some issues have never been fixed.
What does $0=$2 in awk do? learn awk · Kaushik Gopal's Site The trick to understanding awk in all its terse glory is to understand its defaults. Most solutions you see in the wild are a clever symphony of awk defaults stacked on top of each other. In this post, I break down one of the most popular one-liners which...
Mainlining Nexus 9: First Boot Having received the Google Nexus 9 tablet recently, I decided to try mainlining it…
PRDs- Not a Tool, but a communication culture I believe where people go wrong is treating Product Requirements Docs (PRDs) as a universal tool and using templates sourced from the Internet.
My Blogging Utopia - Kev Quirk I've flip-flopped between a number of blogging platforms over the years, because none are perfect. Here's my blogging utopia...
3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror (+24TB, 3.8 million books) annas-blog.org, 2022-09-25
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How does Pagination work? Pagination is a technique to load only smaller chunks of data you make visible to the user. Look at Google web search. You only have a certain amount of shown results even though there are millions. So Google has pages (like in a book) where you can go fo...
Tailscale Tailscale is a zero config VPN for building secure networks. Install on any device in minutes. Remote access from any network or physical location.
Just Let Them Play! When I'm making games, I try to be sensitive about how long players have to wait before they actually start playing. People tend to get annoyed when they can...
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roapi/README.md at main · roapi/roapi Create full-fledged APIs for slowly moving datasets without writing a single line of code. - roapi/README.md at main · roapi/roapi
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iPhones and action discoverability, or "How the hell was I supposed to know that?" Discoverability I spend a lot of my time thinking about UX and design, and I try to consciously think about it in the wild when I can. One of the things that always catches my eyes is the idea of discoverability, or how a user is able to discover that act...