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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​

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​

# 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​

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

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Watch Me​

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

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  • 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.

· 4 min read

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! image-20221127123140432

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 image-20221127122346133

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. image-20221127122600203

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.

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

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CSS​

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

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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.  

Video​

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

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

image-20221127122813536 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! image-20221127123704832

· 4 min read

Good reads​

Retro​

Games​

Projects​

Go​

Tools​

CSS​

Kiosk​

$ sysctl -w kernel.panic=60

FFmpeg​

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

X-Files​

· 7 min read

Good reads​

Fun​

{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​

Projects​

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.

C​

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​


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

CMAKE​

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​

Man, you will be remembered

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!​

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

· 9 min read

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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. image-20221105175233408

  • 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:

  • 2022-10-21 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?

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  • 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;

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

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

    imgSource: Justica

Retro​

Stable Diffusion​

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

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WASM​

Projects​

CSS​

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​

Markdown​

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

Something I watched​

Just for fun​

· 4 min read

AI Generated Aww of the moth​

Good Reads / Videos​

Fun​

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​

Web / JavaScript​

JavaScript Libraries​

CSS​

C# / .NET​

Projects and Tools​

C++ Interactive tutorials​

These two are very good beginner resources:

Emacs​

Emacs config​

Security​

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​

Azure​

Cheat Sheets​

  • 2022-10-05 x64 Cheat Sheet

    Assembly language cheat sheet for x64 architecture

· 11 min read

Good Reads / Videos​

Retro​

Web / JavaScript​

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​

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.

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​

GO​

Emacs​

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)

Media - Images​

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​

Visual Studio DTE in Powershell​

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

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

SSH​

A better solution is to use ssh-keygen -o.
PS c:> type $env:USERPROFILE\.ssh\id_rsa.pub | ssh peter@192.0.2.16 "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"

JWT​

Screen capture API​

Record screen video with Screen Capture API

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​

Watch​

· 5 min read

Fun​

Good Reads​

  • 2022-06-19 Code rant: The Configuration Complexity Clock

    When I was a young coder, just starting out in the big scary world of enterprise software, an older, far more experienced chap gave me a stern warning about hard coding values in my software. “They will have to change at some point, and you don’t want to

Productivity... yeah​

Projects​

The Clippy Project​

Clippy for Visual Studio:

Retro​

WinApi​

C++​

C#​

C# Blogs​

On-Call​

Books​

How the things work​

  • 2022-08-03 The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained

    Every byte explained and reproduced In this demonstration a client connects to a server, negotiates a TLS 1.3 session, sends "ping", receives "pong", and then terminates the session. Click below to begin exploring.

Boring stuff​

  • 2022-08-07 GDPR For Developers By Example Blether

    GDPR has been in place for years now, and we’re starting to learn more and more about how it’s going to be enforced and what it really means. The many questions people had that could only be answered by court decisions have now been answered. Over the past years, I’ve seen systems try and fail to correct implement GDPR. Here are the things I’ve learnt from court decisions and from mistakes made.

Watch Me!​

The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions​

From Wikipedia:

Fritz Haber was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. It is estimated that two thirds of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this supports nearly half the world population. Oh shit...

1979: Will WORD PROCESSORS start a HOME WORKING revolution? | Past Predictions | BBC Archive​

Wiki updated​

  • docs\psy\2022-07-28-BoundariesMeeting.md

· 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 ;)​

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Games​

The X-Files​

danger

Disclaimer: unverified controversy.

TTY Linux​

Algorithms​

  • 2022-06-15 That XOR Trick

    There are a whole bunch of popular interview questions that can be solved in one of two ways: Either using common data structures and algorithms in a sensible manner, or by using some properties of XOR in a seemingly hard to understand way.

Security/Cryptography​

Job hunt/interviews​

Projects​

Markdown Chrome Extensions​

Fitness​

Typescript/JavaScript​

Identity Management​

Security / Cryptography​

Retro​

PowerShell​

Watch me ;)​

  • 2022-06-02 Priest 2011 film - Wikipedia

    Priest is a 2011 American action horror film directed by Scott Stewart A centuries-long war between humans and vampires has devastated the planet's surface and led to a theocracy under an organization called The Church. Despite the vampires' vulnerability to sunlight, and all of mankind's technological advances, the vampires' greater strength and speed made them impossible to defeat until humanity sheltered them in giant walled cities and trained a group of elite warriors, the Priests, which turned the tide.