5 November 2023

33 links · Sunday

Building a community platform

Before we got married, my wife and I visited Teotihuacan near Mexico City. We climbed the massive Pyramid of the Moon and had our picture taken with the even larger Pyramid of the Sun behind us. The enormous complex was built over hundreds of years by a civili…

True code readability doesn't exist! But you'll feel when it really is

The question of what code readability is (as part of mystical DX in general) is often raised lately. And more and more people have started to say that readability is purely a matter of preference. I can’t blame them. After many years of development, we may cat…

HiPhish's Workshop

Today FUTO released an application called Grayjay for Android-based mobile phones. Louis Rossmann introduced the application in a video (YouTube link). Grayjay as an application is very promising, but there is one point I take issue with: Grayjay is not an O…

Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature

the short of it is: they’re cool for appending notes from automated systems (like ticket or build systems) but not really for having interactive conversations with other developers (at least not yet)

.NET Conf 2023 SloDug

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Bevy 0.12

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

Habits of great software engineers

The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the heartbeat of the profession,

Things I’ve learned from running OTIS

Note: if you are a prospective OTIS student, read the syllabus instead. More useful, less bragging. In the unlikely event that I’m a social gathering like a party or family gathering, people will s…

How to Size Your Bets

When Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty this week of defrauding investors at FTX, it caused me to reflect a bit about how to size bets. Sam was famously aggressive with wagers that had any slight e…

Load Shedding

Load Shedding

Why did I switch back to Arch from Artix Linux?

Arch is my favourite distro and openrc being my favourite init system, I was using Artix Linux for more than a year and now, for few reasons I switched back to Arch Linux.