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Links from my inbox July 22 2022

· 11 min read

Good Reads​

  • 2022-07-20 Being on-call sucks — Bobbie Chen

    At tech companies, it is fairly common for developers to be "on-call". As Increment magazine (published by Stripe, a leading payment-processing software company) explains... ... A bit of on-call wisdom

  • 2022-07-22 What I don’t like about working at a remote job

    Working remotely permanently had been my wish ever since my managers started calling me back into the office. There was no possible way I would suffer through hours of commuting to feel awkward in an office again. However, with time came getting used to my situation. Even in the best possible world, your brain is always seeking something better. Although I really, really love remote work (please don’t take it away from me), I’ve noticed some things that make me sad about it.

  • 2022-06-28 The Grug Brained Developer

    A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained

How the things work​

  • 2022-07-20 What happens when you press a key in your terminal?

    I’ve been confused about what’s going on with terminals for a long time. But this past week I was using xterm.js to display an interactive terminal in a browser and I finally thought to ask a pretty basic question: when you press a key on your keyboard in a terminal (like Delete, or Escape, or a), which bytes get sent? As usual we’ll answer that question by doing some experiments and seeing what happens :)

  • 2022-07-20 Beej's Guides

    These guides look nice and clean

  • Beej's Guide to C [WIP]\

    This is a rather comprehensive guide to C for folks who already know how to program in another language. The first half of the book is written in a tutorial style, while the second half is a reference section complete with examples (inspired by the incomparable Turbo C Bible). The goal is to keep this up-to-date with the latest C standards.

Fun​

Derp
Derp search/replace fuckup
Derp, asset redirection in dev mode
Derp. Fix missing constant post rename
Derpy hooves
Do things better, faster, stronger
Does anyone read this? I'll be at the coffee shop accross the street.
Does not work.
Does this work
Don't Ask Me, I Have No Idea Why This Works Either
Don't push this commit
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Done, to whoever merges this, good luck.
Don’t even try to refactor it.
Don’t mess with Voodoo
Duh
Easteregg
Either Hot Shit or Total Bollocks
Errare humanum est.
FONDLED THE CODE
FOR REAL.
FUCKING XUPPERNAMEX
Feed. You. Stuff. No time.
Final commit, ready for tagging
Fingers crossed!
Finished fondling.
First Blood

Games​

Emacs Games abd fun stuff​

  • 2022-07-10 Fun and Games in Emacs - Mastering Emacs

    It’s yet another Monday and you’re hard at work on those TPS reports for your boss, Lumbergh. Why not play Emacs’s Zork-like text adventure game to take your mind off the tedium of work?

  • M-x hanoi-unix
  • 5x5
  • M-x animate-birthday-present
  • C-h f blackbox
  • M-x bubbles-set-game-...: (easy, medium, difficult, hard)
  • M-x doctor
  • M-x dunnet Emacs’s very own Zork-like text adventure game.
  • M-x gomoku
  • M-x life
  • M-x pong
  • M-x snake
  • M-x tetris
  • M-x morse-region and M-x unmorse-region - translate a region into morse code
  • M-x dissociated-press The Dissociated Press is a very simple command that applies something like a random walk markov-chain generator to a body of text in a buffer and generates nonsensical text from the source body.
  • M-x spook - command inserts random words (usually into emails) designed to confuse/overload
  • 2022-07-10 EmacsWiki: Category Games

The X-Files​

danger

Disclaimer: unverified controversy.

Projects​

C# and PowerShell OCR with IronTesseract and Windows.Media.Ocr​

using IronOcr;
var Result = new IronTesseract().Read(@"img\Screenshot.png");
Console.WriteLine(Result.Text);
 Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime
    
  # WinRT assemblies are loaded indirectly:
  $null = [Windows.Storage.StorageFile, Windows.Storage, ContentType = WindowsRuntime]
  $null = [Windows.Media.Ocr.OcrEngine, Windows.Foundation, ContentType = WindowsRuntime]
  $null = [Windows.Foundation.IAsyncOperation`1, Windows.Foundation, ContentType = WindowsRuntime]
  $null = [Windows.Graphics.Imaging.SoftwareBitmap, Windows.Foundation, ContentType = WindowsRuntime]
  $null = [Windows.Storage.Streams.RandomAccessStream, Windows.Storage.Streams, ContentType = WindowsRuntime]
  $null = [WindowsRuntimeSystemExtensions]

Security / Cryptography​

X.509​

  • 2022-07-03 Understanding X.509 digital certificate thumbprints Morgan Simonsen's Blog

    I got an interesting question about X.509 certificate thumbprints today from a colleague. Specifically, he wanted to know if you could renew a certificate and keep the thumbprint. The answer is no, unfortunately. So I thought I would explain why you can’t.

  • 2022-07-03 How Certificates Work: Public Key; Security Services Microsoft Docs

    Digital certificates are electronic credentials that are used to assert the online identities of individuals, computers, and other entities on a network. Digital certificates function similarly to identification cards such as passports and drivers licenses. They are issued by certification authorities (CAs) that must validate the identity of the certificate-holder both before the certificate is issued and when the certificate is used. Common uses include business scenarios requiring authentication, encryption, and digital signing.

  • 2022-07-03 Cryptography - Win32 apps Microsoft Docs

    Microsoft cryptographic technologies include CryptoAPI, Cryptographic Service Providers (CSP), CryptoAPI Tools, CAPICOM, WinTrust, issuing and managing certificates, and developing customizable public key infrastructures. Certificate and smart card enrollment, certificate management, and custom module development are also described.

Web Authentication API​

  • 2022-06-26 Web Authentication API - Web APIs MDN

    Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

  • 2022-06-26 Guide to Web Authentication

    While Web Authentication is an important tool, it is always important to remember that security is not a single technology; it is a way of thinking that should be incorporated into every step of how software is designed and developed.

HTML to Markdown​

TTY UI​

Retro​

Random Retro Neko!​

Nyan Cat​

Watch me ;)​