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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
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blog.codinghorror.com
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4 years ago
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eng
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career . With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
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This year I’ve read twenty-one books or 5903 pages. That’s fewer books than last year (28 / 8064), the year before (25 / 8394), and the one before that (30 / 8447). Heck, I must look back at 2014 to score a win in my very own yearly reading challenge. What surprises me is not much the number of books but the pages I read, which constitutes a more relevant metric . Over the previous three years, that number stayed firmly over 8k while dropp..
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What excites me most coming into 2022. Solid.js, Astro, Next.js, Remix, Netlify, Cloudflare workers, trpc, magic.link, planetscale, my npm packages and more.
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What excites me most coming into 2022. Solid.js, Astro, Next.js, Remix, Netlify, Cloudflare workers, trpc, magic.link, planetscale, my npm packages and more.
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I’m continuing to dive deep on modern typescript/node development. I fixed a bug in a new tool I am using ( projen ) and learned a ton along the way. This post is to share some of that.
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I’m continuing to dive deep on modern typescript/node development. I fixed a bug in a new tool I am using ( projen ) and learned a ton along the way. This post is to share some of that.
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I’m continuing to dive deep on modern typescript/node development. I fixed a bug in a new tool I am using ( projen ) and learned a ton along the way. This post is to share some of that.
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Flea Markets = Source of Treasures # A few weeks ago, at the local flea market, I was very lucky to find a copy of The Rites of Passage by Arnold Van Gennep. It is an Italian edition from 1960s and it belonged to the library of a nearby village. It shows the signs of time, but for the price (about 1€) I couldn’t really complain! I immediately started studying it and I was glad to find, since the first pages, references to The Golden B....
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Flea Markets = Source of Treasures # A few weeks ago, at the local flea market, I was very lucky to find a copy of The Rites of Passage by Arnold Van Gennep. It is an Italian edition from 1960s and it belonged to the library of a nearby village. It shows the signs of time, but for the price (about 1€) I couldn’t really complain! I immediately started studying it and I was glad to find, since the first pages, references to The Golden B....
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Life’s a Party: Analyzing Party Compositions for Combat – Encounters in Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition through Monte Carlo Methods
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elegantcode.com
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4 years ago
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eng
My son, Mason Starr, is a grad student at Georgia Tech in astrophysics or something […] The post Life’s a Party: Analyzing Party Compositions for Combat – Encounters in Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition through Monte Carlo Methods appeared first on Elegant Code .
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Guidance for Scaling - Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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4 years ago
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eng
Was having a conversation with a founder earlier today and the topic of hiring functional leaders came up. I offered one of my common pieces of advice which was don’t hold the reins too tightly once you hire them. It’s something I see happen over and over to first time founders. You hire a new VP of Product and then still continue to oversee so much of the product process yourself. It is understandable, it’s your baby, you’ve spent years bu....
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Guidance for Scaling - Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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4 years ago
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eng
Was having a conversation with a founder earlier today and the topic of hiring functional leaders came up. I offered one of my common pieces of advice which was don’t hold the reins too tightly once you hire them. It’s something I see happen over and over to first time founders. You hire a new VP of Product and then still continue to oversee so much of the product process yourself. It is understandable, it’s your baby, you’ve spent years bu....
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My buddy and I bought some lands (20ha/50acres) in the Quebec province. Creating a new problem It all started because as a new “forest owner”, I wanted to do a tree survey. There are some good mobile apps to recognize flowers and trees but nothing professionally graded I knew (except paying for human expert). I also needed a solution that would work offline since the mobile network coverage is not good on the field.
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This year, despite generally taking precautions and having two shots of Moderna, Christmas found me in quarantine in my home office, hiding away from my family. As far as Christmas traditions go, “physical isolation” has to be one of the more unusual ways to celebrate a holiday whose traditions frequently involve getting together in larger groups. It was Christmas day and I was alone, but it didn't really feel that way: my wife, daughter, a..
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This is one of those books that changes your theory of being. I cannot recommend this enough, this book should be on everyone’s…
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At Vedic Astrology Centre , India’s Best Astrologer Pandit Neeraj Sharma with his penance of more than 13 Years in Astro-Vedic Science has a huge experience in resolving any life’s worries and providing the best and satisfactory measures with the help of Astro Science that leads to a peaceful life. Call us at: 9592227095
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I’ve already posted about gomobile on this blog: “Using gomobile for real”. For a lot of people it seems crazy to run Go on iOS and Android for some others it’s just routine, Zenly & Tailscale to name a few. Since I’m reviving the idea for a geo database on iPhone here are some details. I’ve started to port spatialite with the required dependencies to realize most of them were LGPL and incompatible with iOS distribution, so I went back to a..
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Checking Terraform IaC security in CI/CD with Regula and Bitbucket Pipelines [Tutorial]
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snyk.io
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4 years ago
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eng
Regula enables teams to evaluate Terraform for security and compliance violations in CI/CD prior to deployment.
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New Log4j 2.17.1 fixes CVE-2021-44832 remote code execution (but it’s not as bad as it sounds)
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snyk.io
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4 years ago
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eng
This new CVE-2021-44832 security vulnerability is affecting versions up to 2.17.0, which was previously thought to be fixed. This vulnerability is similar in nature to CVE-2021-4104 which affected the 1.x branch of Log4j.
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With the advent of the new technology of WebAssembly, it is possible to leverage other languages than JavaScript in the browser. Go is one popular language that you can call from your JavaScript web application. This article shows how to do that with TinyGo.
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An overview of many months of churning the entity activity system to use Rust's async/await support, for a much nicer design.
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An overview of many months of churning the entity activity system to use Rust's async/await support, for a much nicer design.
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I found a Consider the Lobster review on Goodreads that almost precisely matches my thoughts on DFW and the book. Hence, given the lazy Christmas-break mood I am in right now, I am conceding myself the right to copy-paste and edit David’s review right away. I know of nobody else who writes as thoughtfully and intelligently as DFW. That he manages to write so informatively, with humor and genuine wit, on almost any subject under the sun..
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There are multiple ways to compute the “average” value of an array of numbers. One of such ways is the geometric mean . For a sample $x = \{ x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n \}$, the geometric means is defined as follows: $$ \operatorname{GM}(x) = \sqrt[n]{x_1 x_2 \ldots x_n} $$ This approach is widely recommended for some specific tasks. Let’s say we want to compare the performance of two machines $M_x$ and $M_y$. In order to do this, we design a s....
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There are multiple ways to compute the “average” value of an array of numbers. One of such ways is the geometric mean . For a sample $x = \{ x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n \}$, the geometric means is defined as follows: $$ \operatorname{GM}(x) = \sqrt[n]{x_1 x_2 \ldots x_n} $$ This approach is widely recommended for some specific tasks. Let’s say we want to compare the performance of two machines $M_x$ and $M_y$. In order to do this, we design a s....
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Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
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notes.eatonphil.com
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4 years ago
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eng
By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from scratch. It will be able to run the following program (among others): function fib ( n ) if n < 2 then return n ; end local n1 = fib ( n - 1 ); local n2 = fib ( n - 2 ); return n1 + n2 ; end print ( fib ( 30 )); This is my second project in Rust and only the third ....
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When The Digital Antiquarian released his System Shock retrospective earlier this year, I was in awe. System Shock was one of my favorite games back in the day, and yes, in the quarrel between id Software’s DOOM and Looking Glass’s System Shock, I was siding with the latter. I was so much more for immersion and storyline than shoot ’em-ups. The Antiquarian article is excellent. If you’re into gaming history or, really, into computer’s his..
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Almost 20 years after the release of the 3rd Matrix (Revolutions). We get a new entry in the world known as Resurrections.
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I’m not a regular philosophy reader, much less of self-improvement guides. I’m wary of the latter and too ignorant for the former. Yet, theologian Vito Mancuso has intrigued me for some time. I followed his podcast on the “Four Masters of Life” 1 and found it excellent. In it, Mancuso discusses his four tutelary deities: “Socrates, the educator. Buddha, the physician. Confucius, the politician. Jesus, the prophet.” I also listened to som..
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