9 January 2023

70 links · Monday

5 Tips to earn money with hive.blog -

Making money online can be a daunting task. With so many different sites, platforms, and strategies out there, it can be hard to know where to start.

How to Bounded Distrust

Scott Alexander points out that the media, from The New York Times to Infowars, very rarely lies explicitly and directly. Alas, the media often misleads. It implies and insinuates that which is not…

The Science of Running Shoes

The design of most running shoes does not match the available science, and understanding this will help you know What to Look for in Running Shoes. The commonly held beliefs follow this logic: Runners get injured due to impact and excessive Pronation, running …

On PBKDF2 iterations

There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key.…

Marketing Advice From Open Source Founders

Face it, if you want to make your open-source project your day job, you’re going to have to put some effort into marketing it.

A Zig Diary

As it turned out I happened to help out with fixing a space to host a zig meetup here in Stockholm at the place where I work. However I haven’t written a single line of zig in my life… I felt that it might be worth doing something about that :D If you don’t kn…

Why do home buyers look at price/sqft more than renters?

A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than renters. I asked around for what other people thought and got some interesting answers, so I decided to write up my takeaways. I. Investments demand...

Travel

Travel Tips and tricks I've learned over the years. Product recommendations, services to use and advice for traveling for less.

I Tried JetBrains’ “New UI” and I Liked It – Levi's Blog

People get very attached to the way a product they use currently works and feels. If someone proposes a change to the status quo, there will be pushback, even if the proposal would bring significant improvements.

Viruses are bastards

Personal Website of Mikka Luster, just a medic.

A life debugger

Debugging life problems like debugging programs

One week digital decluttering

An one week experiment of digital declutter process proposed by Cal Newport’s book Digital Minimalism

Zero Utils

Von Neumann-Morgenstern's Utility Theorem and Harsayni's Aggregation Theorem are often given as good justifications for additive utility and utilitarianism in general but does it make sense?

SourceHut will blacklist the Go module mirror

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

Intro to Graphics 14 - Textures on the GPU

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 16 - Shading Transformations

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 22 - Signal Processing

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 19 - Ray Tracing

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 13 - Textures

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 21 - Sampling

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 25 - Simulation in Graphics

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 20 - Shadows & Reflections

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 15 - Shading

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Five shortcuts to boost your productivity

Taking full advantage of the Visual Studio editor features will make you a more productive developer. Any keyboard warrior will tell you that knowing the right shortcuts boosts that productivity even further. So, we’ve put together a short little video that de…

Implementing Modern API Versioning in .NET

Join the NDC Conferences Giveaway: https://mailchi.mp/nickchapsas/ndcCheck out my courses: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access...

RavenDB 6.0: Sharding webinar

This Wednesday I’m going to be doing a webinar about RavenDB & Sharding. This is going to be the flagship feature for RavenDB 6.0 and I’m really excited ...

340: CES, IoT, Security, & Roasting Coffee

It is time for lightning topics from YOU! We cover some of the latest happenings at CES including some new IoT things, some IoT security, and a bit of coffee roasting :)

Azure Functions 2022 recap and 2023 sneak peek

Firstly wish you all a very happy new year. I sincerely hope that this year brings you much success. As I was doing a perspective of last year of the value that we added for Azure Functions customers - although we shipped 100’s of small improvements - I wanted…

Observed No. 2 - Upgrade Your Terraform Modules

Welcome to the second edition of Observed! your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week's edition looks at a technique you can use to…