Good reads​

2023-01-29 Davide's Code and Architecture Notes - Server-side caching strategies: how do they work? - Code4IT

• Cache-aside: cache and DB do NOT interact

• Read-through: the cache knows how to query the DB

• Write-through: the cache can write on the DB SYNCHRONOUSLY

• Write-behind: the cache can write on the DB ASYNCHRONOUSLY

• Further readings:

  This whole article exists thanks to another interesting blog post I recently read and decided to extend a bit:

  🔗 Caching Strategies In Practice | Rajeev

  Both AWS and Azure provide a way to use caching on their systems.

  AWS's caching functionality is called ElastiCache. They have published a nice guide of best practices for using distributed cache:

  🔗 Caching Best Practices| AWS

  Similarly, Azure gives you a Redis instance. And they have also published their set of best practices:

  🔗 Caching guidance | Microsoft Docs

  Then, Alachisoft, the creators of NCache, has a nice section you might want to read.

  🔗 Benefits of Read-through & Write-through over Cache-aside | Alachisoft

  Finally, we've already talked about Caching in .NET: in particular, we've learned how to use the Decorator design pattern to add a caching layer to our applications:

  🔗 How to add a caching layer in .NET 5 with Decorator pattern and Scrutor

  This article first appeared on Code4IT 🐧

2023-01-26 Resilience and Waste in Software Teams – Jessitron

Keeping libraries and components up-to-date, keeping code readable, updating our automations, improving our observability, bringing other developers up to speed– these are a few of the tasks developers need to do regularly. Any one of these tasks could have no noticeable impact in the future, and any one of them could prevent the next big security incident. The most likely outcome of each is a smoothing of future work, a decrease in unpleasant surprise.

Last time I implemented a feature in the Honeycomb UI, I needed some React functionality that was only in the latest version. I looked at our package.json, and lo! We were on the latest version! I rejoiced, and my work proceeded.

Many of these tasks don’t make it onto the roadmap, because when I look at the overhead of creating a ticket, discussing it in planning, advocating for it–then I can’t. It isn’t worth that. I can’t justify any particular one. Instead, these are best done as we go. Oh look, this test is in the old framework, let’s update it. This name confused me, let’s change it. In the kitchen, I always wash the knives and put them away immediately as soon as I’m done chopping.

2023-02-04 I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month — Simon Berens

I decided it was time to try the nuclear option: having people physically sit behind me to keep me on task. And if I was going to do that I was going to do it right: they’d be there 16 hours a day and only leave for me to sleep. (I have an endlessly growing list of projects I want to make, books I want to read, and skills I want to learn, so productivity means a lot to me!)

2023-01-18 20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Simple Thread

1. I still don’t know very much
2. The hardest part of software is building the right thing
3. The best software engineers think like designers
4. The best code is no code, or code you don’t have to maintain
5. Software is a means to an end
6. Sometimes you have to stop sharpening the saw, and just start cutting shit
7. If you don’t have a good grasp of the universe of what’s possible, you can’t design a good system
8. Every system eventually sucks, get over it
9. Nobody asks “why” enough
10. We should be far more focused on avoiding 0.1x programmers than finding 10x programmers
11. One of the biggest differences between a senior engineer and a junior engineer is that they’ve formed opinions about the way things should be
12. People don’t really want innovation
13. Your data is the most important part of your system
14. Look for technological sharks
15. Don’t mistake humility for ignorance
16. Software engineers should write regularly
17. Keep your processes as lean as possible
18. Software engineers, like all humans, need to feel ownership
19. Interviews are almost worthless for telling how good of a team member someone will be
20. Always strive to build a smaller system

Wow!​

2023-02-02 Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

Games​

2023-01-20 Ain't it funny how the knight moves?

Retro​

2023-01-29 A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive - Internet Archive Blogs

The X-Files​

2023-02-02 Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023- California WARN public records

2023-01-18 What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? Stanford News

jonathankoren: They’re laying people off because it’s cool to lay people off. Layoffs are social, not economical.

Videos​

2023-02-05 Handling JWTs: Understanding Common Pitfalls - Bruce MacDonald, InfraHQ - YouTube

Ensure that the JWT is:

• signed with a strong algorithm (e.g. RS256)
• not expired
• typ claim is not set to None it is difficult to revoke a JWT, not until it expires. some teams use a block-list of revoked JWTs, but this is not a good solution.

2023-02-05 A mortal's guide to making a pig run faster - Richard Banks - NDC Sydney 2022 - YouTube

The talk about performance optimization in .NET Tools:

• PerfView https://github.com/microsoft/perfview
• BenchmarkDotNet https://benchmarkdotnet.org/
• Speedscope https://www.speedscope.app/
• DotNet Source Code https://source.dot.net/

2023-02-02 You Shall Not Password: Modern Authentication for Web Apps - Eli Holderness - NDC Sydney 2022 - YouTube

An overview of modern authentication, SAML, OpenID Connect

2023-02-02 Trading at light speed: designing low latency systems in C++ - David Gross - Meeting C++ 2022 - YouTube

Making a trading system "fast" cannot be an afterthought. While low latency programming is sometimes seen under the umbrella of "code optimization", the truth is that most of the work needed to achieve such latency is done upfront, at the design phase. How to translate our knowledge about the CPU and hardware into C++? How to use multiple CPU cores, handle concurrency issues and cost, and stay fast?

2023-01-29 "It's A Bug Hunt" - Armor Plate Your Unit Tests in Cpp - Dave Steffen - CppCon 2022 - YouTube

This talk is a detailed discussion of how to write unit tests that are good tests; that is, unit test cases that are complete, accurate, and thorough. We can think of unit tests as our laboratory equipment for carefully examining our code and measuring a particular property (existence of bugs) with care and precision; or we can think of them as bug-hunting gear that that keeps us safe when we have to venture into the dark and dangerous parts of our code base.

2023-01-29 KEYNOTE - Emotional Code - Kate Gregory ACCU Conference 2019 - YouTube

Programmers, it turns out, are human beings. This means they not only feel emotions, they leave traces of those emotions behind in their code. Kate will show you why that is so, and what you can do about it.

Projects​

2023-02-02 muxinc/meet: A meeting app built on Mux Real-Time Video.

Mux Meet is a video conferencing app powered by Mux Real-Time Video, written in React, using the Next.js framework.

2023-01-28 Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders

2023-01-20 Kody Tools – I developed 300 tools in 6 months

Great job!

2023-02-10 Markably Online Markdown Editor

This is awesome work, but it is not possible to simultaneously edit HTML / Markdown and switch between modes.

C#​

2023-02-05 Generating Sample Data with Bogus

dotnet add package Bogus

Bogus is a library that works with C#, F# and VB.NET that can be used to create repeatable, fake data for applications. It is somewhat a port of a similar library Bogus.js. It accomplished this by creating generators (called Fakers) that have a set of rules for generating one or more fake objects. Built-into Bogus is a set of generalized rules for common data categories (i.e. Addresses, Companies, People, Phone Numbers, etc.). Enough talk, let’s see how it works. The full repo is at:

C++​

2023-02-02 A list of open source C++ libraries - cppreference.com

The objective of this page is to build a comprehensive list of open source C++ libraries, so that when one needs an implementation of particular functionality, one needn't to waste time searching on web.

2023-02-01 C++ Neural Network in a Weekend – Jeremy's Blog

Would you like to write a neural network from start to finish? Are you perhaps shaky on some of the fundamental concepts and derivations, such as categorical cross-entropy loss or backpropagation? Alternatively, would you like an introduction to machine learning without relying on “magical” frameworks that seem to perform AI miracles with only a few lines of code (and just as little intuition)? If so, this article was written for you.

2023-01-27 When Should You Learn Machine Learning using C++? by Ahmed Hashesh Embedded House Medium

This article is part of a series that address the implementation of Machine learning algorithms in C++, throughout this series, We will be implementing basic Machine learning algorithms using C++ features.

• When Should You Learn Machine Learning using C++?
• Data Preprocessing And Visualization In C++.
• Machine Learning Data Manipulation Using C++.
• Naive Bayes From Scratch using C++.
• Linear Regression Implementation In C++.
• The 8 Books Each C++ Developer Must Read.
• The 9 Books Each Machine Learning Developer Must Read.

2023-01-30 PortAudio/portaudio: PortAudio is a cross-platform, open-source C language library for real-time audio input and output.

GameDev​

2023-02-02 ⚙️ Math Breakdown: Anime Homing Missiles - Little Polygon Game Dev Blog

I designed and prototyped the missile attack! The math was clever and I want to show-off!

Let’s talk about cubic bezier curves, perlin noise, and rotation minimizing frames.

Good reads​

2022-12-28 Advice on being managed

When you shift from being managed to also sometimes managing others, you have a predictable shift in perspective and a lot of obvious-in-retrospect insights. In the spirit of “saying obvious things is good” here are a few.

• Be honest
• Be straightforward
• Be a joy to work with
• Remember why managers exist
• Your manager is also being managed

2022-12-14 How does GPT Obtain its Ability? Tracing Emergent Abilities of Language Models to their Sources

There are three important abilities that the initial GPT-3 exhibit:

• Language generation: to follow a prompt and then generate a completion of the given prompt. Today, this might be the most ubiquitous way of human-LM interaction.
• In-context learning: to follow a few examples of a given task and then generate the solution for a new test case. It is interesting to note that, although being a language model, the original GPT-3 paper barely talks about “language modeling” — the authors devoted their writing efforts to their visions of in-context learning, which is the real focus of GPT-3.
• World knowledge: including factual knowledge and commonsense.

Where do these abilities come from?

Generally, the above three abilities should come from large-scale pretraining — to pretrain the 175B parameters model on 300B tokens (60% 2016 - 2019 C4 + 22% WebText2 + 16% Books + 3% Wikipedia). Where:

• The language generation ability comes from the language modeling training objective.
• The world knowledge comes from the 300B token training corpora (or where else it could be).
• The 175B model size is for storing knowledge, which is further evidenced by Liang et al. (2022), who conclude that the performance on tasks requiring knowledge correlates with model size.
• The source of the in-context learning ability, as well as its generalization behavior, is still elusive. Intuitively, this ability may come from the fact that data points of the same task are ordered sequentially in the same batch during pretraining. Yet there is little study on why language model pretraining induces in-context learning, and why in-context learning behaves so differently than fine-tuning.

Fun​

2022-12-16 Meet Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you Ars Technica

On Wednesday, a designer and engineer named Arvind Sanjeev revealed his process for creating Ghostwriter, a one-of-a-kind repurposed Brother typewriter that uses AI to chat with a person typing on the keyboard. The "ghost" inside the machine comes from OpenAI's GPT-3, a large language model that powers ChatGPT. The effect resembles a phantom conversing through the machine.

2022-12-15 Recursive Game of Life: Life Universe

How the things work​

2022-12-27 A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell

So, since it’s so useful, let’s look a bit deeper what’s this shell, console, and terminal. More precisely, we’ll see, in this article:

• The legacy of physical teletypes in Unix-based systems.
• What are virtual consoles (TTY).
• What are pseudoterminals.
• What’s the shell.
• How to customize a terminal.

Apps and tools​

2022-12-27 Amazing AI — Sindre Sorhus (Stable Diffusion)

Stable Diffusion now with UI for Mac

2022-12-26 Squoosh

This app lets you compress images for the web

2022-12-15 Riffusion

Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate MusicThis is the v1.5 stable diffusion model with no modifications, just fine-tuned on images of spectrograms paired with text. Audio processing happens downstream of the model.

It can generate infinite variations of a prompt by varying the seed. All the same web UIs and techniques like img2img, inpainting, negative prompts, and interpolation work out of the box.

Code: https://github.com/riffusion/riffusion Discord: https://discord.gg/yu6SRwvX4v

Projects​

2022-12-15 lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners: 🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.

2022-12-21 List of Chromium Command Line Switches « Peter Beverloo

There are lots of command lines which can be used with the Google Chrome browser. Some change behavior of features, others are for debugging or experimenting. This page lists the available switches including their conditions and descriptions.

2022-12-20 I built a $5 chat app with Pocketbase & Svelte. Will it scale? - YouTube

PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file Open Source backend for your next SaaS and Mobile app in 1 file

2022-12-19 How to rebuild social media on top of RSS

and we should look for ways to make these reading, publishing, and community services all play nicely together. I'm calling this model "the unbundled web," and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop. (The term "decentralized" has already been co-opted by all those bitcoin people, so I'm using "unbundled" as a synonym with less baggage.)

X-Files​

2022-12-27 Amazon Packages Burn in India, Last Stop in Broken Plastic Recycling System

Muzaffarnagar, a city about 80 miles north of New Delhi, is famous in India for two things: colonial-era freedom fighters who helped drive out the British and the production of jaggery, a cane sugar product boiled into goo at some 1,500 small sugar mills in the area. Less likely to feature in tourism guides is Muzaffarnagar’s new status as the final destination for tons of supposedly recycled American plastic.

JavaScript / Web​

2022-12-16 fart.js - the premier javascript fart library, by jsfart.com 2022-12-16 Let it snow! Embed a snow effect on your website 2022-12-16 Vanilla-tilt.js

2022-12-14 JavaScript APIs You Don’t Know About — Smashing Magazine

• navigator.canShare()

const shareButton = document.querySelector("#share-button");

const shareQuote = async (shareData) => {
    try {
        await navigator.share(shareData);
    } catch (error) {
        console.error(error);
    }
};

shareButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
    let shareData = {
        title: "A Beautiful Quote",
        text: quote.textContent,
        url: location.href,
    };

    shareQuote(shareData);
});

C#​

2022-12-19 HashCode.Combine Method System Microsoft Learn

Note to my future self! Combines values into a hash code.

Videos​

I have watched lots of talks during my vacation; here are some interesting ones.

C++​

2022-12-28 Concurrency Patterns - Rainer Grimm - CppCon 2021 - YouTube

This one is about the OOP C++ Concurrency patterns, like this one for locks:

C#​

2022-12-14 Back to Basics: Efficient Async and Await - Filip Ekberg - NDC Porto 2022 - YouTube

Pluralsight: http://bit.ly/ps-async

DDD - Domain-Driven Design​

2022-12-26 Share Pie: The DDD Treasure Hidden in Plain Sight - Nick Tune - NDC Oslo 2022 - YouTube

33:47: The Domain Drives You, And You Drive the Domain

• Event Storming
• Example Mapping
• Github repo: Domain-Driven Design Crew

Mental Wellbeing​

2022-12-24 I'm just trying to keep my head above water - Chris Klug - NDC Oslo 2022 - YouTube

A software engineer is sharing his experience with depression and visiting "some ones"

Projects​

2022-12-20 Practical Pipelines: A Houseplant Soil Alerting System with ksqlDB - Danica Fine - NDC Oslo 2022 - YouTube

Houseplants can be hard – in many cases, over- and under-watering can have the same symptoms. Take away the guesswork involved in caring for your houseplants while also gaining valuable experience in building a practical, event-driven pipeline in your own home! This talk explores the process of building a houseplant monitoring and alerting system using a Raspberry Pi and Apache Kafka. Moisture and temperature readings are captured from sensors in the soil and streamed into Kafka. From here, we’ll use stream processing to transform the data, creating a summary view of the current state and driving real-time push alerts to your phone through Telegram. In this session, I’ll talk about how I ingest the data, followed by a look at the tools, including ksqlDB and Kafka Connect, that will help transform the raw data into useful information.

My AI Content​

I have generated these articles with ChatGPT today...

2022-12-14 Whiskers the Software Developer: A Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a cat named Whiskers who was a brilliant software developer. For many years, Whiskers worked tirelessly on a variety of projects, using his sharp mind and quick paws to create beautiful and functional code.

2022-12-14 The Essential Skills of a Successful Software Developer

The most valuable qualities of a software developer include their ability to problem-solve, communicate effectively, be organized and detail-oriented, and be adaptable and willing to learn. These skills enable them to excel in their work and make significant contributions to the success of their organization.

2022-12-14 How Software Developers Can Overcome Procrastination and Boost Productivity

Procrastination is a common challenge for many people, and software developers are no exception. With the complex and demanding nature of their work, it can be easy for developers to fall into the trap of putting off important tasks and letting deadlines slip. However, left unchecked, procrastination can have serious negative consequences on both personal and professional levels. So, how can software developers fight back against this insidious habit and stay focused and productive?

2022-12-14 5 Harmless Ways Software Developers Can Have Fun at Work

1. Play "code golf" - try to solve a programming problem in the fewest number of characters possible
2. Have a "code jam" - get together with a group of coworkers and try to solve a programming challenge together
3. Share interesting programming articles or videos with your team
4. Organize a "hack day" where team members can work on personal projects or experiment with new technologies
5. Join an online coding competition or hackathon for a fun and engaging way to challenge yourself and improve your skills.

Good reads​

2022-12-13 The best things and stuff of 2022

• Predicting the tide with an analog computer made from Lego – The idea of minimalist computing devices is taken to the next level by Pepijn de Vos wherein he discusses a device made from Lego that implements Sir William Thomson’s tide predicting approach.

2022-12-10 DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, … How I put it all together – @hgraca

This post is part of The Software Architecture Chronicles**, a series of posts about Software Architecture**. In them, I write about what I’ve learned about Software Architecture, how I think of it, and how I use that knowledge. The contents of this post might make more sense if you read the previous posts in this series.

Fun​

2022-12-05 Asteroid Launcher

2022-12-05 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet

ChatGTP​

2022-12-11 The GPT-3 Architecture, on a Napkin

There are so many brilliant posts on GPT-3, demonstrating what it can do, pondering its consequences, vizualizing how it works. With all these out there, it still took a crawl through several papers and blogs before I was confident that I had grasped the architecture.

So the goal for this page is humble, but simple: help others build an as detailed as possible understanding of the GPT-3 architecture.

2022-12-10 Disputing A Parking Fine with ChatGPT - Notes by Lex

2022-12-10 f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts: This repo includes ChatGPT promt curation to use ChatGPT better.

2022-12-09 The best ChatGPT examples from around the web

Hacker news for prompts

Projects​

2022-12-13 odnoletkov/advent-of-code-jq: Solving Advent of Code with jq

Solving Advent of Code 2022 with jq

2022-12-11 Giant VR Robots Are Building Railways In Japan - Virtual Uncle

2022-12-10 This to That Glue Advice

2022-12-10 albfan/miraclecast: Connect external monitors to your system via Wifi-Display specification also known as Miracast

2022-12-07 awesome-macos-command-line

2022-12-05 Installing FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi

Video Editing​

2022-12-13 LosslessCut

The Swiss Army Knife of Lossless Video/Audio Editing

Videos​

2022-12-06 Keynote: Abstraction Patterns - Kate Gregory - NDC TechTown 2022 - YouTube

A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, (... and then keeps the watch)

To Conor Hoekstra, for the truth about speaking To Guy Davidson, for Beautiful C++ To Tony Van Eerd, for a SOLID talk at C++ Now 2021

2022-12-04 mis Using FFmpeg’s Motion Interpolation Options Antonio Roberts It's morphing time!

ffmpeg -i faces.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=40*PTS,minterpolate='fps=25:scd=none:me_mode=bidir:vsbmc=1:search_param=2000'" -y search_param_2000.mp4

Good reads​

• 2022-12-03 Don't End The Week With Nothing

  Prefer Working On Things You Can Show

  One of the reasons developers have embraced OSS so much is because it gives you portable capital between companies: if your work is sitting on Github, even if you leave one job, you can take it with you to your next job. Previously this happened pretty widely but generally under the table. (Is there any programmer who does not have a snippets folder or their own private library for scratching that one particular itch?) One of the great wrinkles that OSS throws into this is that OSS is public by default, and that's game changing.

• 2022-11-29 Post 43: Intentionally Making Close Friends — Neel Nanda

  One of the greatest sources of joy in my life are my close friends. People who bring excitement and novelty into my life. Who expose me to new experiences, and ways of seeing the world. Who help me learn, point out my blind spots, and correct me when I am wrong. Who I can lean on when I need support, and who lean on me in turn. Friends who help me grow more into the kind of person I want to be.

• 2022-11-28 Engineers' billing nightmares · getlago/lago Wiki

  Our team at Lago still has some painful memories of Qonto's internal billing system, that we had to build and maintain. Why was it so painful? In this article, I will provide a high-level view of the technical challenges we faced while implementing hybrid pricing (based on subscription and usage) and what we learned during this journey.

• 2022-11-28 FFmpeg - Ultimate Guide IMG.LY Blog

  In this guide, we'll go through the hot topics of FFmpeg. But before that, we'll cover some base ground to help you understand basic media concepts and FFmpeg. Feel free to skip the parts that are already trivial for you!

• 2022-11-27 40 Useful Concepts You Should Know - by Gurwinder

  Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon:

  When we notice something new, like an unusual word, we start seeing it more often. It feels like it's become more common but really we're just more alert to it, and we confuse our attention with reality itself. Hence conspiracy theories.

  Ostrich Effect:

  We often try to avoid info that we fear will cause us stress. Thus bills and work emails remain unopened, bank balances remain unchecked. This is counterproductive because ignoring a problem doesn't eliminate the problem or your anxiety; it only prolongs them.

  Nobel Disease:

  We idolize those who excel in a particular field, inflating their egos and afflicting them with the hubris to opine on matters they know little about. By celebrating people for their intelligence, we make them stupid.

Games​

• 2022-11-28 drwhut/tabletop-club: An open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine.

  

  Tabletop Club is an open-source multiplayer game that allows you to play your favourite tabletop games in a physics-driven 3D environment with the use of easy-to-make asset packs!

  The game is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and is being developed with the Godot Engine.

Retro​

• 2022-11-29 Obsolete Sounds

  Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening.

Tools​

• 2022-12-02 Drag and drop from terminal

  So far, whenever I wanted to share a file from the terminal I would open up a GUI file browser, navigate to that directory, find the file and then drag and drop it. Not anymore. I recently was able to cobble together a pretty good(IMO) for dragging and dropping files to GUI applications and thought I would share. Now let us see how to get this workflow. The main tool that is helping with this is dragon. Here is how you use it

• 2022-11-29 FFMPEG.WASM

  ffmpeg.wasm is a pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg. It enables video & audio record, convert and stream right inside browsers.

• 2022-11-29 What working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years looks like — Mosaad

  For more than two years, I've been using Tailwind CSS almost every working day for company projects and a lot of weekends for my side projects.

  During this time, I've worked with it on projects using WordPress, Laravel, Vue.js, Next.js, Remix.run, and many other technologies.

Security​

• 2022-11-28 Downloading the official binaries — Tabletop Club master documentation

# Windows
certutil -hashfile TabletopClub_vX.X.X_Windows_64.zip SHA512

# macOS
shasum -a 512 TabletopClub_vX.X.X_OSX_Universal.zip

# Linux / *BSD
sha512sum TabletopClub_vX.X.X_Linux_64.zip

C​

• 2022-11-28 Everything I wish I knew when learning C - Tom M

Learning C was quite difficult for me. The basics of the language itself weren’t so bad, but “programming in C” requires a lot of other kinds of knowledge which aren’t as easy to pick up on:

• C has no environment which smooths out platform or OS differences; you need to know about your platform too
• there are many C compiler options and build tools, making even running a simple program involve lots of decisions
• there are important concepts related to CPUs, OSes, compiled code in general
• it’s used in such varied ways that there’s far less a centralised “community” or style than other languages

Seattle​

• 2022-12-03 Seattle Metro Bus Hiking

  Walks, Hikes, and Outdoor Adventures in the Seattle area that you can reach by Public Transit

  

Watch Me​

- 2022-12-01 "The Early Days of id Software: Programming Principles" by John Romero Strange Loop 2022 - YouTube

• id Software programming principles by John Romero

  No prototypes. Just make the game. Polish as you go. Don't depend on polish happening later. Always maintain constantly shippable code.

  It's incredibly important that your game can always be run by your team. Bulletproof your engine by providing defaults upon load failure.

  Keep your code absolutely simple. Keep looking at your functions and figure out how you can simplify further.

  Great tools help make great games. Spend as much time on tools as possible.

  We are our own best testing team and should never allow anyone else to experience bugs or see the game crash. Don't waste others' time. Test thoroughly before checking in your code.

  As soon as you see a bug, you fix it. Do not continue on. If you don't fix your bugs your new code will be built on a buggy codebase and ensure an unstable foundation.

  Write your code for this game only - not for a future game. You're going to be writing new code later because you'll be smarter.

  Encapsulate functionality to ensure design consistency. This minimizes mistakes and saves design time.

  Try to code transparently. Tell your lead and peers exactly how you are going to solve your current task and get feedback and advice. Do not treat game programming like each coder is a black box. The project could go off the rails and cause delays.

  Programming is a creative art form based in logic. Every programmer is different and will code differently. It's the output that matters.

Good reads​

2022-11-22 Debugging tips and tools - Meziantou's blog

Here are some tips and tools to help you debug your .NET applications. The goal is not to be exhaustive, but to give you some ideas on how to debug your applications.

2022-11-21 How it works - Briar

P2P Encrypted messages Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server - messages are synchronized directly between the users’ devices. If the internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance.

Fun​

2022-11-24 Ethernet RJ45 clip to secure/repair/fix broken tab by guss67 - Thingiverse

And this is awesome!

Retro​

2022-11-24 ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX: An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator

Job Interviews​

2022-11-22 Job Interview question samples https://bit.ly/InterviewDevsResource

from this talk Keynote: Lies Developers Tell Themselves - Billy Hollis - NDC Minnesota - YouTube

Projects​

2022-11-25 Script Kit: Shortcut to Everything

Shortcut to Everything An open-source kit to optimize your developer workflow

2022-11-25 Soundux/Soundux: 🔊 A cross-platform soundboard

Soundux is a cross-platform soundboard that features a simple user interface. With Soundux you can play audio to a specific application on Linux and to your VB-CABLE sink on Windows.

But what was interesting, this program is created with with webview/webview: Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++/Golang. Uses WebKit Gtk/Cocoa and Edge Windows

2022-11-24 brycedrennan/imaginAIry: AI imagined images. Pythonic generation of stable diffusion images.

2022-11-22 terrastruct/d2: D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

CSS​

2022-11-27 An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS

X-Files​

2022-11-24 Smart Move, Google maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

Back home I opened Google Maps again, and noticed that maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps. This implies that the permissions I give to Google Maps now apply to all of Googles services hosted under this domain.

2022-11-24 Discovery: ‘Special’ muscle can promote gluco EurekAlert!

From the same mind whose research propelled the notion that “sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little,” comes a groundbreaking discovery set to turn a sedentary lifestyle on its ear: The soleus muscle in the calf, though only 1% of your body weight, can do big things to improve the metabolic health in the rest of your body if activated correctly.  

• 2022-11-24 Discovery Unlocks Potential of 'Special' Muscle - YouTube

Video​

2022-11-26 Keynote: The Next Decade of Software Development - Richard Campbell - NDC Minnesota - YouTube

2022-11-24 Taking Notes is a WASTE OF TIME When You're Learning To Code! DO THIS INSTEAD! - YouTube

Vicky S

1. Don't Bother taking notes for the first 2 months rather focus on the course or tutorial.
2. After learning the basics, start building projects and comment on every single line.
3. Write documentation, basically explaining the purpose of your project (watch other tutorials on how to write documentation in VScode).
4. Only take notes of those concepts which you use very often and find it difficult to remember them. Thank you, Dorian it really helped a lot :)

2022-11-23 Contemporary C++ in action - Daniela Engert - NDC TechTown2022 - YouTube

Really hardcore talk!

• DanielaE/CppOnSea2022: Demo Application from the talk
• Libs
  • https://think-async.com
  • https://ffmpeg.org
  • https://www.libsdl.org

Good reads​

• 2022-11-18 How does Windows decide whether your computer has limited or full Internet access? - The Old New Thing

  Windows attempts to download a file from a dedicated Web server. Depending on which version of Windows, it’s http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt or http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt. If the download is successful and contains the correct contents, then Windows concludes that you have full Internet access.

Retro​

• 2022-11-14 'Be' is nice. End of story. - by Bradford Morgan White

  That's a story about BeOS!

Games​

• 2022-11-19 ByteOverlord/Watch_Quake: Quake 1 port for Apple Watch

  

Projects​

• 2022-11-17 Home - Apple Rankings by The Appleist Brian Frange - Comedian Brian Frange

  These are real apples!

• 2022-11-17 wbkd/awesome-node-based-uis: A curated list with resources about node-based UIs

  

• 2022-11-20 What makes Git so hard to use? HighFlux

  Several tools are already out there:

  • Gitless 2
  • Sturdy
  • legit
  • jj
  • Sapling: just opensourced yesterday by Meta
  • HighFlux: our product, currently in beta

• 2022-11-19 Bannalia: trivial notes on themes diverse: Inside boost::unordered_flat_map

  Starting in Boost 1.81 (December 2022), Boost.Unordered provides, in addition to its previous implementations of C++ unordered associative containers, the new containers boost::unordered_flat_map and boost::unordered_flat_set (for the sake of brevity, we will only refer to the former in the remaining of this article). If boost::unordered_map strictly adheres to the C++ specification for std::unordered_map, boost::unordered_flat_map deviates in a number of ways from the standard to offer dramatic performance improvements in exchange; in fact, boost::unordered_flat_map ranks amongst the fastest hash containers currently available to C++ users.

• 2022-11-17 foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM: Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

  So... it is here in C++... because how else would you test your opensource C++ with no apple device?

• 2022-11-13 AnalogJ/scrutiny: Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds

  If you run a server with more than a couple of hard drives, you're probably already familiar with S.M.A.R.T and the smartd daemon. If not, it's an incredible open source project described as the following: smartd is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.

Go​

• 2022-11-18 Go Style styleguide

Tools​

• 2022-11-19 nathants/mighty-snitch: noticing and preventing network requests should be easy

  

CSS​

• 2022-11-19 Tree views in css

  A tree view (collapsible list) can be created using only html and css, without the need for JavaScript. Accessibility software will see the tree view as lists nested inside disclosure widgets, and the standard keyboard interaction is supported automatically.

• 2022-11-19 Marek Gibney on Twitter: "With a single css rule, one can create interactive trees in pure html. https://t.co/0GEIsRtqMC" / Twitter

  

• 2022-11-18 candle

• 2022-11-18 Candle Made with CSS Hacker News

  

Kiosk​

• 2022-11-19 How to use a Raspberry Pi in kiosk mode - Raspberry Pi

  

• 2022-11-18 Use This Kernel Parameter in Your Kiosk - Connor's Blog

  r/PBSOD is a fun subreddit all about posting pictures of broken kiosks and information/entertainment systems in public. It stands for Public Blue Screen of Death which is a Windowsism but Linux systems are posted there too.

$ sysctl -w kernel.panic=60

FFmpeg​

• 2022-11-19 Paolo Melchiorre - Resize a video with FFmpeg for Mastodon

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1920:-1 -vcodec libx265 -crf 24 output.mp4

X-Files​

• 2022-11-19 I got laid off at Microsoft. What I regret - YouTube

  Reassuring video from someone who was laid off from MS

  

Good reads​

• 2022-11-06 Reducing BigQuery Costs: How We Fixed A $1 Million Query — Data Science & Engineering 2022

  During the infrastructural exploration of a pipeline my team was building, we discovered a query that could have cost us nearly $1 million USD a month in BigQuery. Below, we’ll detail how we reduced this and share our tips for lowering costs in BigQuery.

Fun​

• 2022-11-12 [Bubbles][https://oimo.io/works/bubbles/] and Bubbles Hacker News people call it a "toy"

  

• 2022-11-12 secureworks/chaosbernie: Azure as an external process source for psDoom-ng - Kill ur klaud!

  Chaos Bernie implements Azure as an external process source for psDoom-ng. Warning Azure resources will be permanently and irrevocably destroyed: use at your own risk!

• 2022-11-07 notepad-plus-plus/Notepad_plus.cpp at master · notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

  What else can we find inside Notepad++

{TEXT("Notepad++"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("The creation of Notepad++ is due to my need for a decent editor to edit the source code of Notepad++")},
{TEXT("Notepad++ #1"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("I hate reading other people's code.\nSo I wrote mine, made it as open source project, and watch others suffer.")},
{TEXT("Notepad++ #2"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("Good programmers use Notepad++ to code.\nExtreme programmers use MS Word to code, in Comic Sans, center aligned.")},
{TEXT("Notepad++ #3"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("The best things in life are free.\nNotepad++ is free.\nSo Notepad++ is the best.\n")},
{TEXT("Richard Stallman"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("If I'm the Father of Open Source, it was conceived through artificial insemination using stolen sperm without my knowledge or consent.")},
{TEXT("Martin Golding"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.")},
{TEXT("L. Peter Deutsch"), QuoteParams::slow, false, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("To iterate is human, to recurse divine.")},
{TEXT("Seymour Cray"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.")},
{TEXT("Brian Kernighan"), QuoteParams::rapid, true, SC_CP_UTF8, L_TEXT, TEXT("Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.")},

Games​

• 2022-11-05 ZType – Typing Game - Type to Shoot

  

• 2022-11-06 The Bézier Game

  Learn how to use Bezier curves

Projects​

• 2022-11-09 Idiot proof git

I’m an idiot. And git is hard. A lot of places use a rebase-based Git workflow, and I’ve made git less hard with a set of handy aliases. Put these in your ~/.gitconfig and turn git into an actually less painful command line tool to use.

• 2022-11-08 Recreating sci-fi terminals using VHS – Lost Boy

  I heard about VHS recently. It’s a tool for creating recordings of command-line tools, so you can create little demos and tutorials about how to use them. You can write a script to run commands, manipulate and theme the ter Github: charmbracelet/vhs: Your CLI home video recorder 📼

• 2022-11-06 gchq/CyberChef: The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

  

• 2022-11-06 yeemachine/kalidoface-3d: Face and Body Tracking for VRM 3D models on the web.

  Kalidoface 3D - Face and Full-Body tracking for Vtubing on the web! A sequal to Kalidoface which supports Live2D avatars, Kalidoface 3D is a web app that brings support for 3D Vtuber avatars. It now features more dynamic camera angles, and even full-body tracking options using the latest Mediapipe human pose detection models. Add the web app to your homescreen to use it in standalone full screen or even use it in OBS as a browser object directly.

  • Kalidoface 3D - Face & Full Body Tracking
  • yeemachine/kalidokit: Blendshape and kinematics calculator for Mediapipe/Tensorflow.js Face, Eyes, Pose, and Finger tracking models.
  • yeemachine/kalidoface: Become a virtual character with just your webcam!

C​

• 2022-11-13 Building a simple shell in C

  A basic shell that prints a prompt, waits for user to enter command and prints what they entered on the next line

  • Building a simple shell in C - Part 1
  • Building a simple shell in C - Part 2
  • Building a simple shell in C - Part 3

• 2022-11-13 Build Your Own Text Editor

  Welcome! This is an instruction booklet that shows you how to build a text editor in C.

  The text editor is antirez’s kilo, with some changes. It’s about 1000 lines of C in a single file with no dependencies, and it implements all the basic features you expect in a minimal editor, as well as syntax highlighting and a search feature.

Java​

• 2022-11-13 Java Programming for Kids

  This book is not only for kids! This is just a good-written, illustrated guide on writing your first Java application.

Powershell​

• 2022-11-06 PowerShell: Getting Started - Utilizing the Web: Part 4 Controlling Internet Explorer via IE COM Object — The Ginger Ninja

  In case you are missing Internet Explorer 11... it is still there!

$ieObject = New-Object -ComObject 'InternetExplorer.Application'
$ieObject | Get-Member
$ieObject.Visible = $true

CMAKE​

• 2022-11-06 cmake_templates/normal/library at master · acdemiralp/cmake_templates

  random CMake templates

Tools​

• 2022-11-11 HTTrack Website Copier - Free Software Offline Browser GNU GPL Offline web!

  HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

  It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

X-Files​

• 2022-11-12 Man who lived in Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years dies in airport France The Guardian

Man, you will be remembered

• 2022-11-12 Changing times or, why is every layoff 10-15%?

A discussion on Hacker News

2022-11-09 GitHub stars won't pay your rent

How to be a successful open-source developer and how not to make any money!

For later​

• 2022-11-13 Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era Nature Human Behaviour

  Intense sociality has been a catalyst for human culture and civilization, and our social relationships at a personal level play a pivotal role in our health and well-being. These relationships are, however, sensitive to the time we invest in them. To understand how and why this should be, we first outline the evolutionary background in primate sociality from which our human social world has emerged. We then review defining features of that human sociality, putting forward a framework within which one can understand the consequences of mass social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, including mental health deterioration, stress, sleep disturbance and substance misuse. We outline recent research on the neural basis of prolonged social isolation, highlighting especially higher-order neural circuits such as the default mode network. Our survey of studies covers the negative effects of prolonged social deprivation and the multifaceted drivers of day-to-day pandemic experiences.

Free Ads!​

How do I explain Barista that I want a dark bitter coffee, without getting "brown" sour one at the end?

Good reads​

• 2022-11-05 Folklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code

  -2000 Lines Of Code Author: Andy Hertzfeld Date: February 1982 Characters: Bill Atkinson Topics: Software Design, Management, Lisa Summary: It's hard to measure progress by lines of code

• 2022-11-04 Use RSS for privacy and efficiency :: rsapkf/www

  Social media sites are riddled with ads, trackers, and dark patterns. As much as I'd love to avoid using them for privacy reasons or time concerns, it's just not possible to keep up to date with current events without them.RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") gives you the best of both worlds. For the uninitiated, it is a way to "subscribe" to websites without having to browse them individually or signing up for newsletters. With a collection of RSS feeds, you can keep up with the latest updates from multiple sources (that offer an RSS feed) from within your feed reader.

• 2022-10-30 Things your manager might not know

  Here are the facts your manager might not know about you and your team that we’ll cover in this post: What’s slowing the team down Exactly what individual people on the team are working on Where the technical debt is How to help you get better at your job What your goals are What issues they should be escalating What extra work you’re doing How compensation/promotions work at the company

• 2022-10-30 My Top 10 Tips for Doing Time In ‘the Hole’ The Marshall Project

  In prison, going to “the hole” can mean spending 23 hours a day alone in a tiny cell. Here, incarcerated author Michael J. Nichols shares his top 10 tips for enduring long stretches of “administrative segregation.”

• 2022-10-29 How to communicate effectively as a developer

  Writing effectively is a superpower, there is no denying it. As a software engineer, you write a lot. Most of the writing you do is for computers. Businesses, however, consist of people.

• 2022-10-25 "Workflows, a new abstraction for distributed systems" by Dominik Tornow Strange Loop 2022 - YouTube

  Distributed "functions" that can resume execution from the previous state Recommendation from the talk:

  • 2022-10-25 Data and Reality by William Kent
  • 2022-10-25 Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition: An essential property for reliable systems
  • 2022-10-25 Durable Functions Overview - Azure Microsoft Learn
  • 2022-10-25 Homepage Temporal Temporal is a developer-first, open source platform that ensures the successful execution of services and applications (using workflows).

• 2022-10-21 When life gives you lemons, write better error messages by Jenni Nadler Sep, 2022 Wix UX

  Error messages are part of our daily lives online. Every time a server is down or we don’t have internet, or we forget to add some info in a form, we get an error message. “Something went wrong” is the classic. But what went wrong? What happened? And, most importantly, how can I fix it?

  

• 2022-10-17 YAGNI exceptions - lukeplant.me.uk

  • Applications of Zero One Many. If the requirements go from saying “we need to be able to store an address for each user”, to “we need to be able to store two addresses for each user”, 9 times out of 10 you should go straight to “we can store many addresses for each user”

  • Versioning. This can apply to protocols, APIs, file formats etc.

  • Logging. Especially for after-the-fact debugging, and in non-deterministic or hard to reproduce situations, where it is often too late to add it after you become aware of a problem.

  • Timestamps

• 2022-10-16 If you want to terminate on an unexpected exception, then don't sniff at every exception; just let the process terminate - The Old New Thing

  The idea is that the Do­Something function uses an error code to report problems, but it is built with the help of functions that use exceptions to report problems. The Do­Something function sets up a try/catch that catches any exceptions that may emerge from the helper functions and uses a helper function to convert the exception to an HRESULT. If the exception cannot be converted to an HRESULT, then we terminate the process, because the helper functions threw a disallowed exception.

X-Files​

• 2022-11-04 Pex4Fun - Microsoft Research

  And it is gone now. Why?

• 2022-11-04 GOTO: .NET Source Browser

  Tell me more about goto! .NET Source Browser is very helpful tool

      // Skip past any whitespace at the beginning.
      if ((styles & NumberStyles.AllowLeadingWhite) != 0 && IsWhite(num))
      {
          do
          {
              index++;
              if ((uint)index >= (uint)value.Length)
                  goto FalseExit;
              num = value[index];
          }
          while (IsWhite(num));
      }
      // ....
  Exit:
      return status;
  
  FalseExit: // parsing failed
      result = 0;
      status = ParsingStatus.Failed;
      goto Exit;
  OverflowExit:
      result = 0;
      status = ParsingStatus.Overflow;
      goto Exit;
  

  Copy

• 2022-10-27 Why has Microsoft finally trademarked Clippy? - Office Watch

  In June 2021, Microsoft applied for a Clippy image trademark.

  Source: Justica

Retro​

• 2022-11-01 Ep.6: We got a Soviet PDP-11 DVK-3, never used in 30 years! Computers of Chernobyl - YouTube

  Just a fun research about old hardware

• 2022-10-27 Make WordArt - Online word art generator

  Bring back the 90's with online WordArt

  

• 2022-10-28 Programming Portals

  Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes

• 2022-10-25 runvnc/dadsresume: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

  

Stable Diffusion​

2022-10-28 Stable Diffusion Prompt Book - OpenArt OpenArt

WASM​

• 2022-10-28 sqlite3 wasm docs: About the sqlite3 WASM/JS Subproject

  SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS

Projects​

• 2022-11-04 Educational Channels

  Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category

• 2022-10-31 FiloSottile/mkcert: A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.

  mkcert is a simple tool for making locally-trusted development certificates. It requires no configuration.

• 2022-10-30 sickcodes/Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

• 2022-10-29 FFmpeg.guide - One stop solution to all things FFmpeg

  A simple GUI tool to create complex FFmpeg filtergraphs quickly and correctly, without having to mess with the cumbersome filter syntax

• 2022-10-26 Starter Tab

  

• 2022-10-21 Screenplays for Movies and TV Shows

  I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

• 2022-10-17 madler/pigz: A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines.

CSS​

• 2022-10-30 📊 Charts.css

  CSS data visualization framework

• 2022-10-28 An exploration of what's possible with CSS and Pokémon Cards

  Card animation repo: pokemon-cards-css/src at main · simeydotme/pokemon-cards-css

• 2022-10-24 Bolt.css

  Basic styles for HTML Elements. Providing a mostly-reasonable set of styles without classes. Use it for simple static sites or as a starting point and add your own classes. This is not a complete solution with layout grids, components, utility classes, and the like.

Linux​

• 2022-10-26 systemd Shutdown Units - Poseidon Labs

  Designing a system to shutdown gracefully can be tricky. In an ideal world, every service would be managed by a systemd unit. ExecStart would start a process that handles SIGTERM by stopping itself and an ExecStop would inform the process and block to gracefully stop the process and its resources.

  But not all software stops gracefully or does a full teardown of what it set up. In this post, we’ll look at systemd’s shutdown behavior and strategies for writing systemd units that perform custom cleanup tasks before shutdown.

Self-hosted​

• 2022-11-01 FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregator

  FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.

• 2022-10-24 mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide: Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting on premises & private web servers and managing software applications by yourself or your organization.

  Self-Hosting is the practice of locally hosting(on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by a person or organization instead of monthly subscriptions from Software as a service Software as a service (SaaS) providers.

Markdown​

• 2022-10-16 marktext/marktext: 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

MarkText is an MIT licensed open source project, and the latest version will always be downloadable for free from the GitHub release page.

Something I watched​

• 2022-11-04 Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022 - YouTube

  Amazing talk about ASCII, code pages and all weird stuff

• 2022-11-04 Keynote: Why web tech is like this - Steve Sanderson - YouTube

  From when the Web was invented to the current days

• 2022-11-03 Typical C++, But Why? - Björn Fahller - NDC TechTown 2022 - YouTube

  Better stronger type coding suggestions

• 2022-11-03 C++ Weekly - Ep 213 - CTRE: Compile Time Regular Expressions - YouTube

  C++ Weekly about hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressions: Compile Time Regular Expression in C++

• 2022-10-21 "Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher Strange Loop 2022 - YouTube

  A little bit controversial, but fun talk about why we write that boilerplate code, that does not solve our problem? very useful screenshot:

Just for fun​

• 2022-10-27 Interview with Senior JS Developer in 2022 - YouTube

• 2022-10-27 Interview with a GNU/Linux user in 2022 - Partition 1 - YouTube

AI Generated Aww of the moth​

Good Reads / Videos​

• 2022-09-29 Here’s how one of Atlassian's critical services consistently gets above 99.9999% of availability - Atlassian Engineering
• 2022-10-08 How Ray Tracing Modern CGI Works And How To Do It 600x Faster - YouTube

  Informative video about ray tracing in 3D graphics.

• 2022-10-04 The Illustrated Stable Diffusion – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.

  AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people’s minds (mine included). The ability to create striking visuals from text descriptions has a magical quality to it and points clearly to a shift in how humans create art. The release of Stable Diffusion is a clear milestone in this development because it made a high-performance model available to the masses (performance in terms of image quality, as well as speed and relatively low resource/memory requirements).

Fun​

• 2022-10-08 js13kGames 2022 winners 🏆 The GitHub Blog

  🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮 Amazing Games, I've played Dante, Soul Surf, DEAD AGAIN.

• 2022-10-03 webrcade/webrcade: Feed-driven gaming

• 2022-10-08 joschuck/matrix-webcam: Take your video conference from within the matrix.

The X-Files​

• 2022-10-08 Jewish Calendar

  About how the Jewish Calendar works.

• 2022-10-05 Kubernetes Hardening Guide

  National Security Agency Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Cybersecurity Technical Report Not exactly an X-File...

Retro​

• 2022-10-08 Microsoft Typing Tutor
• 2022-09-23 1994: Are YOU Ready for the INTERNET? Tomorrow's World Retro Tech BBC Archive - YouTube

Web / JavaScript​

JavaScript Libraries​

• 2022-10-09 Day.js · 2kB JavaScript date utility library

  Day.js is a minimalist JavaScript library that parses, validates, manipulates, and displays dates and times for modern browsers with a largely Moment.js-compatible API.

CSS​

C# / .NET​

Projects and Tools​

• 2022-10-08 AykutSarac/jsoncrack.com: 🔮 Seamlessly visualize your JSON data instantly into graphs; paste, import or fetch!
• 2022-10-08 parvardegr/sharing: Sharing is a command-line tool to share directories and files from the CLI to iOS and Android devices without the need of an extra client app

  very simple http based desktop/phone sharing tool

• 2022-10-05 42wim/matterbridge

  bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble (go lang)

C++ Interactive tutorials​

• 2022-10-03 Input/output with files

  interactive tutorial

• 2022-10-03 Ask HN: Where can I find C++ by Example? Hacker News

  my HN question

• https://cppbyexample.com/
• https://hackingcpp.com/
• https://www.learncpp.com/
• https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features
• https://cppinsights.io/ it's a must so you can investigate what gets generated by templates behind the scenes.
• http://eel.is/c++draft/ bookmark this, you will need it!

These two are very good beginner resources:

• https://pythontutor.com/cpp.html

• https://www.learn-cpp.org

• https://godbolt.org

• https://root.cern/cling

• 2022-10-03 Interactive C++ with Cling - The LLVM Project Blog

Emacs​

• 2022-10-08 Get Things Done with Emacs

  How to organize your life with Emacs

Emacs config​

• 2022-10-02 Configuring Emacs as a C/C++ IDE - LSP Mode - LSP support for Emacs
• 2022-10-02 emacs-config/init.el at master · oantolin/emacs-config
• 2022-10-02 Modernizing my Emacs Configuration Andrew Johnson
• 2022-10-02 Sacha Chua's Emacs configuration
• 2022-10-02 The Basics of Emacs Configuration - System Crafters
• 2022-10-02 C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs
• 2022-10-02 Emacs as a C++ IDE

Security​

• 2022-10-08 Penetration testing wireless keyboards: Are your devices vulnerable?
• PDF Penetration testing wireless keyboards
• 2022-10-08 Penetration testing wireless keyboards Hacker News

Summary of the results (page 137):
  Protocol   Sniffing   Injection
  Plexgear   Yes        Yes
  Rapoo      Yes        Yes
  Logitech   No         Yes
  Corsair    Yes        Yes
  iiglo      Yes        Yes
  Exibel     Yes        Yes
  Razer      No         No

JWT​

• 2022-09-29 Why you should not use JWT

  about challenging it is to log-out a user or validate that the user token has been disabled.

Azure​

• 2022-10-07 Managed Identities with Azure AD Active Directory Tutorial - YouTube

Cheat Sheets​

• 2022-10-05 x64 Cheat Sheet

  Assembly language cheat sheet for x64 architecture

Good Reads / Videos​

• 2022-08-11 The Missing Semester of Your CS Education · the missing semester of your cs education
• 2022-08-12 Seven Things I Learnt Doing Stand-Up Comedy Michael Gomes Vieira

  From March to April 2022 I took part in a 6 week stand-up comedy course for beginners at The Comedy Store in Central London. At the end of the course, myself and the other comedians performed a 5 minute set in front of an audience of over 150 people. Here are some of the things that I learnt from taking part in the course.

• 2022-08-21 Shifting Our API's Pagination Method: From Offset to Cursor-Based

  Cursor based pagination works a bit differently. A cursor is a value that references an entry, and can be thought of like a divider in a filing cabinet—it separates the content that comes before it from the content that comes after it. The cursor given by the server will reference the next entry that comes after the last entry you received from the server response. To use our earlier alphabet example, after you receive the first set of results for A, B, and C, the cursor is set at D—the next entry that comes after the last entry you received.

• 2022-08-27 André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative
  • argosopentech/argos-translate: Open-source offline translation library written in Python

    Open-source offline translation library written in Python

  • 2022-08-27 Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager Bitwarden

    Password Manager Move fast and securely with the password manager trusted by millions. Drive collaboration, boost productivity, and experience the power of open source with Bitwarden, the easiest way to secure all your passwords and sensitive information.

• 2022-08-30 Cost of a integer cast in Go Ben E. C. Boyter

  Recently have been doing interviews at work for Go developers.

  The filter for this is a simple review exercise. We present a small chunk of code and ask them to review it over 15 minutes pointing out any issues they see. The idea is to respect their and our time. It works pretty well and we can determine how much experience someone has by their ability to pick up the obvious vs subtle bugs.

• 2022-09-06 Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused - American Express Technology

  Yak shaving is a term used to describe the process of working on a task that requires a series of other tasks to be completed first. The term originated in the 1970s when a programmer would have to shave a yak to make a rug before he could use the rug to sit on while he programmed.

Retro​

• 2022-08-12 Windows 3.1
• 2022-08-12 XP.css - A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
• 2022-08-12 98.css - A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
• 2022-08-12 system.css A design system for building retro Apple-inspired interfaces
• 2022-08-12 casualwriter/casual-markdown-page: Markdown as Web Page/Site
• 2022-08-30 Oregon Trail Game 1990
• 2022-08-30 90's Cursor Effects

  A collection of cursor effects, inspired by the 90's.

• 2022-09-18 The Twisted Life of Clippy Seattle Met

  In the ’90s, Microsoft created an annoying paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon. “What a lot of people don’t understand is, in the ’90s, the majority of people had not touched a computer,” says Fries. “They didn’t know how a menu worked.” Fries, who’d ascended to program manager at the company, and her colleague Barry Linnett decided they would need to think outside all those dialog boxes to reach beginners.

Web / JavaScript​

• 2022-06-24 Copy HTML with native Clipboard API - SteGriff

My experimental snippet:

(async () => {
    function sleep(ms) {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            setTimeout(resolve, ms)
        })
    }

    function setClipboard(html) {
    const type = "text/html";
    const blob = new Blob([html], { type });
    const data = [ new ClipboardItem({ [type]: blob })];

    navigator.clipboard.write(data).then(
        function () {
            console.log("Done");
        },
        function (err) {
            console.error(err);
        }
    );
    }
    console.log("Wait");
    await sleep(3000);
    console.log("Go!");
    setClipboard(String.raw`
<table>
<tr>
<td><b>Hello</b></td><td>World</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Done</b></td><td>AAA</td>
</tr>
</table>
`);

})()

• 2022-09-03 Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript Charlie Gerard

  I’ve been interested in building a radar system for a while now. I’ve been following the development of the RTL-SDR for a while, and I’ve been wanting to build a system that uses it. I’ve also been wanting to build a web app that uses WebUSB to communicate with a USB device. So I decided to combine the two and build a web app that uses a RTL-SDR to display aircraft on a map.

CSS​

• 2022-07-12 Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders - Robb Owen

I might be understating it a bit, but WebGL is a big deal. You only need to spend five minutes on one of the many design awards sites to see site-after-site fully leaning into the power of canvas. Tools like threejs bring the power of 3D and GLSL shaders to the browser and, with that, a whole new level of visual effects.

• 2022-08-26 Create a 3D CSS Printer that Actually Prints! - SitePoint
• 2022-08-26 3D CSS Plane 😎 Tap to Toggle + Mouse Move Parallax
• 2022-08-26 CSS 3D Print Shop 😁
• 2022-09-17 MVP.css - Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements

  A minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements No class names, no frameworks, just semantic HTML and you're done.

C# / .NET​

• 2022-08-26 🤩 SharpLab

  SharpLab is an interactive playground for .NET code. It allows you to run and debug your C# code directly in the browser. It also allows you to share your code with others and see their changes in real-time.

• 2022-08-26 ashmind/SharpLab: .NET language playground

• 2022-08-30 badamczewski/PowerUp: ⚡ Decompilation Tools and High Productivity Utilities ⚡

  PowerUp is a collection of productivity utilities, disassembly and decompilation tools for multiple languages and platforms. The project features the following utilities and tools:

  • Live IDE Watcher (For C#, F#, GO, Rust and C++ (clang)).
  • .NET JIT Dissasembler.
  • .NET IL Compiler.
  • .NET Console with rich formatting.

• 2022-09-02 C# does Shell, Part 3 - CodeProject

  This article is about Application Desktop Toolbars, which are applications that can align to the screen much like the taskbar. The article will develop a base class for developing such apps.

Projects​

• 2022-08-30 1 week of Stable Diffusion multimodal.art
• 2022-07-29 tabler/tabler: Tabler is free and open-source HTML Dashboard UI Kit built on Bootstrap
• 2022-08-14 diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards: A collection of ergonomic split keyboards ⌨
• 2022-08-16 No-Signup Tools

  No-Signup Tools is a collection of tools that don't require you to create an account to use them. It's a great resource for developers and designers who want to quickly test something without having to create an account.

• 2022-08-22 7 Colour E-Ink Display For Raspberry Pi Inky Impression 5.7" 7 Colour ePaper/eInk HAT - Tutorial Australia
• 2022-08-22 Inky Impression 5.7" 7 colour ePaper/eInk HAT - PiShop.us

  The Inky Impression is a 5.7" 7 colour ePaper/eInk HAT for the Raspberry Pi. It's a great way to add a high quality display to your Raspberry Pi project. The Inky Impression is a 5.7" 7 colour ePaper/eInk HAT for the Raspberry Pi. It's a great way to add a high quality display to your Raspberry Pi project.

• 2022-08-25 Programming Idioms

  Programming Idioms is a collection of common programming idioms, each with a simple example in a variety of languages. It's a great resource for developers who want to learn a new language or just want to see how a common task is done in a different language.

• 2022-08-26 📌 Emojicode

  Emojicode is a programming language that uses emojis as its syntax. It is designed to be easy to learn and fun to use. Emojicode is open source and available under the MIT license.

GO​

• 2022-09-16 golang-design/clipboard: 📋 cross-platform clipboard package that supports accessing text and image in Go macOS/Linux/Windows/Android/iOS

Emacs​

• 2022-07-18 ⭐ emacs-tw/awesome-emacs: A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items.
• 2022-07-23 fourier/borland-blue-theme: Emacs Theme based on Borland Turbo C for DOS

  Installation Easiest way to install using MELPA. If you have MELPA installed, run

M-x package-install RET borland-blue-theme RET

Alternatively put the this directory to the custom-theme-load and add the following to your init file:

(push (substitute-in-file-name "~/.emacs.d/borland-blue-theme/") custom-theme-load-path)
(load-theme 'borland-blue t)

Copy

• 2022-07-18 Markdown Mode for Emacs markdown-mode is a major mode for editing Markdown-formatted text.
• 2022-07-29 M-x emacs-reddit
• 2022-07-29 rougier/nano-theme: GNU Emacs / N Λ N O Theme
• 2022-07-29 EmacsConf and Emacs hangouts - YouTube

Media - Images​

• 2022-07-29 Buttery Smooth "10fps" – Wunk

When I am making animations, with the intent of ultimately becoming a GIF file on the internet, I pretty much always target 50 fps.

Media FFmpeg​

• 2022-07-05 FFmpeg cheat sheet for 360 video

Visual Studio DTE in Powershell​

Control Visual Studio from Powershell using the DTE (Development Tools Environment) COM Object.

• 2022-08-06 .net - How to use DTE in PowerShell? - Stack Overflow

I found a simple answer by playing with the idea in ISE for a little while.

Basically, the call to GetActiveObject returns a COM object, which can be used directly in PowerShell. After executing LoadDTELibs, you can get an instance of DTE by calling GetActiveObject and then refer to the result directly.

So...

PS> $dte = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.11.0")

PS> $dte = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE")

PS> $dte.solution.Create("D:\Testing", "Acme.sln")
PS> $dte.solution.SaveAs("D:\Testing\Acme.sln")

• 2022-08-06 #PSTip Get a list of all Com objects available

Get-ChildItem HKLM:\Software\Classes -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Where-Object {
    $_.PSChildName -match '^\w+\.\w+$' -and (Test-Path -Path "$($_.PSPath)\CLSID")
} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty PSChildName

• 2022-08-06 DTE Interface EnvDTE Microsoft Docs

Sub DTEExample()
    Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument
    Dim objEP As EditPoint

    ' Create a new text document.
    DTE.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")
    ' Get a handle to the new document.
    Set objTextDoc = DTE.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument")
    Set objEP = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint
    ' Create an EditPoint and add some text.
    objEP.Insert "A test sentence."
End Sub

$dte.ActiveDocument | Get-Member -MemberType All

Cheatsheets​

• 2022-08-18 C# Cheatsheet
• 2022-08-18 Kotlin Programming Language Cheat Sheet Part 1
• 2022-08-21 Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Cheat Sheet - Blog

  Just an idea to organize all the links

• 2022-08-21 SSH - Cheat Sheet
• 2022-08-21 SSH Cheatsheet – CheatSheet

SSH​

• 2022-08-21 Improving the security of your SSH private key files — Martin Kleppmann’s blog

A better solution is to use ssh-keygen -o.

• 2022-08-21 Use ssh-keygen to create SSH key pairs and more

PS c:> type $env:USERPROFILE\.ssh\id_rsa.pub | ssh peter@192.0.2.16 "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"

JWT​

• 2022-08-13 Decode JWT in JS
• 2022-08-13 Decode JWT access and id tokens via PowerShell Blog

Screen capture API​

Record screen video with Screen Capture API

• 2022-08-28 Using the Screen Capture API - Web APIs MDN
• 2022-08-28 Screen Capture on your browser with ffmpeg.wasm by dannadori Medium

Until a while ago, I was a Linux user and I used ffmpeg to make gif animations for my Blog. I recently moved to Windows and was wondering how I could make a gif animation. I found out that I could make them with ffmpeg for Windows.

Games - Factorio​

• 2022-09-17 📌 Factorio Cheat Sheet
• 2022-09-17 deniszholob/factorio-cheat-sheet: Cheat Sheet for Factorio
• 2022-09-17 Factorio Calculator

Watch​

• 2022-09-18 Excel Esports: ALL-STAR BATTLE - YouTube

  Competitive Excel is a thing.

• 2022-08-26 Programming’s Greatest Mistakes - Mark Rendle - NDC Copenhagen 2022 - YouTube

  The biggest mistake in programming is not learning from your mistakes.

• 2022-09-05 Beverly Crusher - Full Performance Live on KEXP - YouTube

  Local Seattle band