9 October 2022

20 links · Sunday

Generalize The Feedback You Receive

When you get feedback, try to generalize it. Extend the feedback to the next degree you can think of, and think about integrating the fix there.

Happy 20th birthday Jira! You suck so bad.

Jira continues to be an unintuitive, slow displeasure to use, but remains one of the top-picks amongst software management for issue-tracking software.

DIY out-of-band management: remote power button

I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to make it possible to push a PC’s power button remotely via MQTT by wiring up an ESP32 microcontroller, a MOSFET, a resistor, and a few jumper wires. While a commercial solution like IPMI offers many more features…

A note on Alain Aspect's 2022 Nobel prize win

(This note on Alain Aspect getting the 2022 Nobel prize was shared by Prof. Sivakumar Srinivasan of Krea University. I’m posting this note here with his permission. I’ve taken a bit of liberty to split into paragraphs for easier reading. No other changes to hi…

adhd-page

A couple of weeks ago, I'd been to a social gathering with my girlfriend all day. Overworked and overwhelmed by the mental effort required to socialize, I sat down at my desk in the evening and tried to gather myself and do something I knew how to do: build a …

How Game Designers Solved These 11 Problems

GMTK is powered by Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GameMakersToolkit Being a game designer means being a problem solver. In this video, I share stories of how game creators overcame huge design conundrums, so you can fix your own issues when they crop up. …

.NET MAUI Community Kit 1.3 Released

On October 4th 2022, Microsoft released version 1.3 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit, a library of valuable additions to the official MAUI application framework. This release includes bug fixes and several enhancements such as gravatar support, a coloured st…

TypeScript is now officially 10 years old!

After initially being greeted with skepticism, Microsoft’s TypeScript programming language, which brought static types to JavaScript development, has withstood the test of time, a Microsoft official wrote this past weekend. What is TypeScript?TypeScript is a …

Integrating the customer portal

In this edition of Stripe Developer Office Hours, Theodora Chu shares an overview of the Customer Portal and CJ Avilla demonstrates integration into a simple...