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GitHub - electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert: Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Command and Conquer: Red Alert. Contribute to electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert development by creating an account on GitHub.
EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals
I can't quite believe it either. Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Command & Conquer Renegade and Command & Conquer Generals (inc. Zero Hour) have their code officially open sourced.
Solitaire — LocalThunk
I have cited a few games as inspiration for Balatro in the past, but I wanted to talk about one in particular that hasn’t been mentioned much that arguably is the most important. I think if I had some kind of Balatro vision board, solitaire (Klondike) would b…
Release fish 4.0.0 (released February 27, 2025) · fish-shell/fish-shell
fish’s core code has been ported from C++ to Rust (#9512). This means a large change in dependencies and how to build fish. However, there should be no direct impact on users. Packagers should see ...
C# and Open Source Web
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Cut Cloud Costs with Terraform: Automate, Optimize, and Save Money - Chris Woody Woodruff
Cloud bills piling up faster than you expected? Terraform isn't just for deploying infrastructure—it’s also an awesome cost optimization tool! Instead of manually tracking expenses and hoping for the best, Terraform helps you: Monitor and control cloud costs b…
NO Professional Experience: First Developer Job Resume Review
A common situation for MANY developers: how to get that first job when you don't have any professional experience to include on your resume. Let's discuss and review a submitted resume! ---- Want a chance to have your resume reviewed? Submit it to resumes [a…
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t
iMac G4(K)
A year ago I tried using an M1 iMac for work duty but its 21" screen took up too much room on my desk. After seeing Sean's video on Action Retro about putting an M4 Mac Mini inside an iMac G4, I thought I'd give it a try.
Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Key Jefferys
Kee Jefferys is the co-founder of Session, an encrypted messaging application that minimizes the collection of user metadata. Kee has been involved in numerous technological projects, specializing in decentralized networking and blockchain. As an active and e…
2FA or not 2FA | Alexander Mikhailian
A few weeks ago I received an unsolicited email from the Belgian Center for Cyber Security. It starts with the statement that 80% of cyber attacks could be avoided if 2FA was active and then says literally that If you only use a username and password for your …
Over the Clouds: CPython, Pyodide, and SPy
A week of hacking and winter sports in Cervinia
Wind Knitting Factory
‘Wind Knitting Factory’, is a wind-powered knitting machine. With this eco-friendly fashion machine, sustainable scarves are knitted.
Steal My Idea: Evaluating LLM Systems with Production Data at Scale
A framework for fixing the gaps in your LLM-testing strategy
Resume vs Curriculum Vitae | Alexander Mikhailian
Old farts like me often have long and detailed LinkedIn profiles that we just copy as Curriculum Vitae when applying for leadership roles.
Defining our priorities as the CTO of a tech company
A blog about (mostly) computery things
The Real Cost of BigQuery
Why Serverless?
Using jj as a manager
I think when people ask what’s so great about jj they tend to go deep into things such as mega-merge strategies and stacked PRs. These things are cool, no doubt, but jj can be useful starting…
New preprint: Programming Really Is Simple Mathematics - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog
Bertrand Meyer and Reto Weber: Meaning as Programs — Programming Really Is Simple Mathematics, February 2025 preprint available here and also on arXiv. Theories of programming can be quite complicated; the presentation here is a return to essentials, defining …
Don’t delete to fix
If you are a developer, you are annoyed by this. If you are a user, you were most likely guilty of this. I am talking reporting that something is broken, AND deleting it.
a tui in a day
what is a TUI A TUI is a Text-based User Interface, which provides another way of interacting within the terminal besides writing plain text commands. There are several frameworks to build such TUIs, e.g. ratatui for Rust or textual for Python. In the followin…
The Perceived Cost of Living
When someone says, “Everything is getting more expensive,” what does that actually mean? Rising prices are easy to observe, but quantifying their impact on daily life requires a deeper look at how
TUM: A completely new type of microscopy based on quantum sensors
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have invented an entirely new field of microscopy, nuclear spin microscopy.
The Raster Tragedy in Skia
2D Graphics Library
Debounce All of the Things
debounce is a tool to limit how often commands are executed, saving time and resources.
What could you learn from seeing your startup as a neural network? - Mike Alche
What could you learn from seeing your startup as a neural network? - software-development - Mike Alche
Rethink State💡 Why You Should Model Your Frontend Around Events | JUWEL Development
Learn how event-driven architecture transforms frontend development by improving state management, user experience, and responsiveness. Explore practical techniques today!
LLMs + Vulnerability-Lookup: What We’re Testing and Where We’re Headed
Everyone’s talking about AI, NLP and LLMs these days, and, to be honest, so are we! Recently, we’ve been exploring how LLMs can help us make sense of the massive amount of vulnerability data we collect and improve vulnerability management—while always remember…
Make yourself less valuable to tech companies
John Oliver dedicated the primary segment of his most recent episode on Meta and it's many moderation and privacy failures and violations. It was a well-reasoned take if not a redundant one for everyone who's spent time following these issues. What I found mos…
How (Not) To Choose a Test Automation Framework — Quality Conductor
Here are the absolute worst ways to pick an automated test framework.
Web What? - How gaming is coming to browsers | Marshall Scott
With the rise of WebAssembly and compatibility with virtually any device, games in web browsers are becoming more popular. But there's still some large challenges to supporting the platform you should know.
Leaving Instagram in the dust | Process Things
If you know me even a little, it’ll come as no surprise that I hate Meta. Hate? That’s a strong word. Yes. I hate Meta with every fiber of my being. In 2017, on the heels of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I deleted my Facebook account, never to return. As Me…
Interview home coding tasks: my policy
In recent years there seems to have been a shift in interviews: less pairing exercises and more home coding tasks / projects. After recent experience of home coding projects pre-interview, I’ve set a policy for my engagement in these tasks. I’m detailing it be…
Things you should never do: Use Expect to autotype SSH passwords in scripts
Before I moved to Finland, I spent some time in the Hobbesian war of all against all that is Wisconsin1. Men were men back in that less civilized age, and “cybersecurity” a ninny-word dreamt up by social harmony types who honestly thought they had anything wor…
Benchoff Design Portfolio
Should you become a manager? | The Art of Engineering Management
My retrospective going into engineering management - The good, the bad and the ugly
Eric Chiang | Protobuf generators for fun and profit
There aren’t a ton of great options for API definition languages. OpenAPI and gRPC are the only real game in town, but each have their own shortcomings. OpenAPI is a huge, awkward language for expressing types. gRPC is focused on its own protocol rather than i…
Your product shouldn't require showing my legal name
Monday, February 24, 2025
Implementing MNIST classifier from scratch in Zig
Implementing an MNIST classifier from scratch in Zig to learn the language and better understand backpropagation. Covers the scope of training a simple neural network, tips for debugging, and key ML resources to get started. Code available on GitHub.
memory.elliott.computer
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 16:41
App over file
This is a direct counter argument to Steph Ango’s File over app philosophy. Steph is the CEO of popular PKM tool - Obsidian. Disclaimer: I am the founder of Memotron, a direct competitor to Obsidian. Despite the fact that I am the founder of Memotron, I am not…