8 February 2023

53 links · Wednesday

Zelda 3 - A Link to the Past for Windows, Linux und MacOS

Gerne denke ich an die 90er zurück. Der Start der Heimcomputer, der speziellen Musik, und der Spiele. Eines der Spiele, an die ich gerne zurückdenke, ist "Zelda - A Link to the Past". Schon Ende der 80er hatte Nintendo diese epische Reihe gestartet. So sah das…

Introducing network.txt: A Standard for 3rd Party Data Transparency

In today’s digital age, privacy and data protection have become major concerns for both website visitors and developers. With the introduction of GDPR laws, it’s important for websites to provide clear information about the sharing of personal data…

Taking a look at Nostr

After hearing about Nostr from multiple people over the past weeks I decided to take a look and learn more about it. I found nostr-resources.com, usenostr.org and github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr to be helpful to get an initial overview. Running a nostr rela…

SVG viewBox padding

Suppose there's a rect shape the same size as its SVG container. When you add stroke to it, the border of the rectangle you see is only half its actual width.

Does thanking too many people in the credits indicate a movie is bad?

David Wilkinson got in touch yesterday asking for advice on his new crowdfunding campaign. One of the topics he wanted to chat about was the ‘cost’ of offering a “Thanks” credit to his backers. This involves awarding someone who backs the film a credit on the …

High Costs are not About Precarity

I’ve seen people who I think highly of argue that high construction costs in the United States are an artifact of precarity. The argument goes that the political support for public transporta…

Understanding GPT A Bit Better

Here is something you can try to understand ChatGPT and similar systems better, by looking in to your own brain.

Bean Machine Retrospective, part 7

How do we write a compiler in a typical general-purpose line-of-business OO programming language such as Python or C# or whatever? Compilers are programs, so we could make the question more general…

Cross-platform Maps with .NET MAUI

The .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Map control is a cross-platform view for displaying and annotating maps. The Map control uses the native map contr...

How to Clone a List in C#? - Code Maze

In this article, we will look at all the different ways we can clone a list in C# and what we should pay attention to when doing so.

Pivot

I remember dismissing the iPhone as a fad, you can look back at my archive and ...

Tech Conferences

A highly-customizable Hugo academic resume theme powered by Wowchemy website builder.

Print on FreeBSD

Nothing compares more to the sense of power UNIX sysadmin experiences when being able to print from a command line on its UNIX system :p I kinda omitted this topic (printing) for quite a lot of tim…

Multimodal Machine Learning

Multimodal learning is a machine learning technique that incorporates data from multiple modalities – ways of perceiving the world – to create models that have increased accuracy and better capabilities.

Rule of Four

A communication heuristic, optimized for asynchronous communication of detailed concepts between human beings. Rationale Existence “proof” Our short term memory can hold at best about 7 +/- 2 chunks of information at a time. Start with the lower end of that: …

Developer-Driven Software Development

At Plocs ( we use a development process called Developer-Driven Software Development: 1) Tasks are assigned to developers based on their suitability for the task. 2) Each developer gets a small num…

pedro cattori

When you start a new job adventure, create a memories folder for it. Then, whenever you're excited/proud/happy about your work, screenshot it and stick it into memories.

Dear Microsoft

A letter to Microsoft regarding Bing