19 August 2023

20 links ยท Saturday

hahaha we live in hell

sitting in my car in a Seattle parking lot. there's a knock on my window. it's an old lady, who asks me "how do we pay for parking?" ---------------------------------------- she's taking her husband to the hospital to see his doctor, but there's a massive ro…

So, your friend has a startup idea, huh?

The Scenario If you are a software engineer, then the following scenario inevitably happens to you: Your friend (or relative, neighbor, acquaintance, etc) learns you are a software engineer. She te…

Precision and Recall are just filtered accuracies

In this post I will show how precision and recall are related to accuracy and how they can be thought of as filtered versions of accuracy. Accuracy¶Accuracy is a fundamental concept in evaluating every day systems. In simple terms, accuracy is defined as propo…

Making a USB Mute Button for Online Meetings - ClickedyClick

Since Google Meet teases us to add a USB device to controll calls, let's learn how to teach an Arduino clone to act like a phone mute button, and thus ultimately being capable to act like an infinite variety of peripheral devices.

Let's build a website using XML!

It is 2023. XHTML is dead and buried. HTML is a "living standard" with billions of users. So what kind of idiot would want to build a website using XML? Me. I am that idiot. Last year, I launched a "web page" which didn't use HTML. Called, appropriately enough…

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Added on 1/8/2023, Written by Lubwama Abdul Muswawir

Analyzing Visual Database Query Plans from a CLI

tl;dr: we’ve created new SQL commands ( SHOW PROFILE UI, EXPLAIN UI and SHOW PLAN UI) that allow developers to more easily visualize their SingleStoreDB query plans. It’s the little things! I recently tried to define Database Developer Experience, which is wh…

Nothing Matters

It's far too easy to be passive and experience life as the default, but it's clear to me that it works the other way around.

What is Chaos Testing? #shorts #microservices

What is Chaos Testing? #shortsSupport me on Patreon to access the source code:https://www.patreon.com/mohamadlawandLet us connect:🌍 My website - https://m...

Advanced Rate Limiting Use Cases In .NET

Rate limiting is about restricting the number of requests to your application. It's usually applied within a specific time window or based on some other criteria. Rate limiting is practical for a few reasons: - Improves security - Guards against DDoS attacks …