23 January 2025

30 links · Thursday

CVSS is dead to us

CVSS is short for Common Vulnerability Scoring System and is according to Wikipedia a technical standard for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in computing systems. Typically you use an online CVSS calculator, click a few checkboxes and radio buttons a…

Open Source Web Dev with C#

Turn your videos into live streams with https://restream.io Let's work on SharpSite, an open source CMS that you can contribute to and learn from. https://github.com/FritzAndFriends/SharpSite

Tailwind CSS v4.0

We just released Tailwind CSS v4.0 — an all-new version of the framework optimized for performance and flexibility, with a reimagined configuration and customization experience, and taking full advantage of the latest advancements the web platform has to offer…

Book Review: React Key Concepts - Coding Sonata

Are you ready to start the year with learning React? Today I am presenting you a book that has been recently published through its second edition A tome of knowledge …

Leader's sadness vs. authentic leadership

Discover how accepting sadness builds authentic leadership. Learn why stopping pretending to be happy makes you a stronger leader.

I don't need no social media for my photos

Back in the day, starting in 2005, I used to use Flickr for photos. I loved it. Those were the days when people posted random and unpolished photos. But then the web started to change and I stopped posting as did others. Flickr being sold, and then sold again …

Par Part 1: Sequent Calculus

Sequent Calculus is a way of doing logic that's very explicit and mechanical. It's used as an important system and notation for type theory and logic related to programming languages.

Lean app monitoring—The Starter Pack

An easy, low-cost way to start your monitoring routine that covers the most basic needs. For those who lost in application monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, uptime monitoring, etc.

Why Rails in 2025?

Why should someone starting a new application in 2025 reach for Ruby on Rails?

Get Good At Learning - Don't Break Prod

When I think about the most impressive and impactful engineers I've worked with the most common trait they share is their ability to learn. It's not just that they have deep technical knowledge in useful areas, though they often do, it's that when presented wi…

urllib3 in 2024

Overall, 2024 was a slower year for urllib3 in terms of development and funding compared to previous years. The year's highlights were increased financial support from multiple sources, developments for HTTP/2 and WASM support, and successful sponsored work fr…

I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp

Developing a multiplayer third-person shooter game as a solo developer is a journey filled with challenges and rewards. I embarked on this adventure to create Wizard Masters, a web-based multiplayer game where players battle as mages wielding elemental spells.…

Goodbye commercial social media

I've been almost entirely off of corporate social media for years now. I closed my last holdout account this past week.

The Closed Web

I’ve been observing a growing shift toward a more Closed Web. At the core of this change appear to be fundamental shifts in the value exchanges between web publishers and technology platforms.

Paul Romer

Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; eco…

stories i refuse to believe

The internet is filled with stories that purport to teach us a valuable lesson or something about how the world works, and they’re really important because they really happened. NASA spent millions of dollars designing a space pen, which was really foolish whe…