Links from my inbox December 2021
Once in a while, the time comes to clean all the links I've saved in my email inbox.
You can't take the sky from me.​
Take my love, take my land,
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.
- (2021-12-26) MIT Private Pilot Ground School, Lecture 1 Introduction - YouTube I've been wondering about how difficult it is to fly small aircraft like Cessna 172 or Piper PA-28 Cherokee. The curiosity led me to this course. The lectures are excellent. You'll get all info you need to make your mind.
- (2021-12-26) LSX Kit - Progressive Aerodyne Inc SeaRey -- build your airplane in a year or sooner in the garage; unfortunately, I don't have my own garage yet.
- (2021-12-26) RPi Stratux ADS-B - DIY/Low-cost Portable ADS-B Stratux is free software that enables DIY and low cost ADS-B receivers for pilots. Yep, I just leave it here
- (2021-12-26) AWC - Aviation Weather Center www.aviationweather.gov National Weater Service
- (2021-12-26) Tips to Prevent Motion Sickness from Ruining Your Trip - Kingman Yacht Center Pepsi and Coca-Cola prevent motion sickness
- (2021-12-26) NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia Hotel, Echo, Lima, Lima, Oscar ... Whiskey, Oscar, Romeo, Lima, Delta!
- (2021-12-26) AirNav: KSEA - Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Airport reference information/ Comms Freq. luizmonteiro - Online Simulators - VOR Simulator Free simulator for "Ground-Based Navigation - Very High-Frequency Omni-Directional Range (VOR)"
- (2021-12-26) SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts popular flight planning tool
- (2021-12-26) Jeffrey Skiles - Wikipedia a hero pilot who landed (ditched) Airbus on Hudson River with no loss of life
- (2021-12-26) Flightradar24 live flight tracking service
- (2021-12-26) Mayday - Air Crash Investigation YouTube Playlist
Good reads​
- (2021-12-26) 055. Office 2000 is Good to Go! - by Steven Sinofsky about Office 2000 release. The Office with Clippy!
- (2021-12-26) Teach Yourself Computer Science list of learning materials for self-taught software engineers. Useful to brush up on the basics from time to time.
- (2021-12-26) Ask Miss O11y: I Don't Want to Be On Call Anymore. Am I a Monster? being on-call is fun! maybe...
- (2021-12-26) Backpressure explained — the resisted flow of data through software by Jay Phelps Medium Backpressure (or back pressure) is something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at some point, and for some it’s a frequent problem. But the term itself isn’t nearly as understood and recognized as such.
- (2021-12-26) The 5 Whys: get to the root of your productivity problems When your productivity takes a nosedive, it adds stress and anxiety, as you don't have enough time to accomplish your goals and do what really matters to you. Understanding why your productivity is flailing will help you get back on track.
- (2021-12-26) Groups Never Admit Failure "Groups never admit failure. A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. Individuals are the only ones who admit failure. Even individuals don’t like to admit failure, but eventually, they can be forced to."
- (2021-12-26) Don’t start with microservices – monoliths are your friend – Arnold Galovics The Holly War!
C# / .NET​
- (2021-12-26) .NET 6 vs .NET 5: up to 40% speedup! .NET 6 is faster!
- (2021-12-26) Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core 6 - YouTube we call it Domain-Driven Design... Onion architecture... Ports and adapters...
JavaScript​
- (2021-12-26) How to Take Screenshots in Chrome Extension
Typescript​
- (2021-12-26) Boost your productivity with TypeScript project references - LogRocket Blog This feature allows to build/watch multiple projects with different tsconfig files with a single
tsc -bortsc -wcommand. - (2021-12-26) Using TypeScript Project References to share common code same as above
- (2021-12-26) debounce - 30 Seconds of Typescript- Inspired by 30-seconds-of-code and not only debounce, but also many other popular functions and code snippets. Good typescript resource!
CSS​
- (2021-12-26) 1-Line Layouts Simple CSS layouts with flexbox/flexgrid magic
- (2021-12-26) Defensive CSS - Ahmad Shadeed Oftentimes, we wish that there was a way to avoid a certain CSS issue or behaviors from happening. You know, content is dynamic, and things can change on a web page, thus increasing the possibility of a CSS issue or a weird behavior.
Projects​
- (2021-12-26) damoeb/rss-proxy: RSS-proxy allows you to do create an RSS or ATOM feed of almost any website, just by analyzing just the static HTML structure.
- (2021-12-26) Floating Point Visually Explained "While I was writing a book about Wolfenstein 3D[1], I wanted to vividly demonstrate how much of a handicap it was to work without floating points. My personal attempts at understanding floating points using canonical articles were met with significant resistance from my brain."
- (2021-12-26) Victor Ribeiro Windows 95-style Website 
- (2021-12-26) charmbracelet/soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command line
- (2021-12-26) Splitting CSV files at 3GB/s · Tinybird with SIMD! Good C lang examples on this topic.
Scripting and tools​
- (2021-12-26) How to write idempotent Bash scripts · Fatih Arslan It happens a lot, you write a bash script and half way it exits due an error. You fix the error in your system and run the script again. But half of the steps in your scripts fail immediately because they were already applied to your system. To build resilient systems you need to write software that is idempotent.
- (2021-12-26) Robert Muth: Better Bash Scripting in 15 Minutes The tips and tricks below originally appeared as one of Google's "Testing on the Toilet" (TOTT) episodes. This is a revised and augmented version.
- (2021-12-26) Installing and Configuring DOSBox on Ubuntu #dosbox #ubuntu Install DOSBOX on Ubuntu. Then run Win3.11!