|
Last week I shared how I'm building Postcard as a calmer alternative to social networks. I believe that personal newsletters will replace social networks like Twitter and Facebook as a dependable, per...
|
|
Last week I shared how I'm building Postcard as a calmer alternative to social networks. I believe that personal newsletters will replace social networks like Twitter and Facebook as a dependable, per...
|
|
Recently, after I watched the latest movie in the Avatar series - yes, the one with the blue people - it got me thinking about why I like…
|
|
yubiuser has released a new updated for PADD, to 3.10.0, and this update I think is quite important because it fixes the “flickering refresh” that was introduced with the v3.9.0. So I updated also my modified version with more info that fits 800x480px screens. You can download it the file from GitHub: padd.sh v3.10.0 for 800x480px display Be careful because now PADD auto-center itself in bigger screen/terminal, so you need to change ..
|
|
yubiuser has released a new updated for PADD, to 3.10.0, and this update I think is quite important because it fixes the “flickering refresh” that was introduced with the v3.9.0. So I updated also my modified version with more info that fits 800x480px screens. You can download it the file from GitHub: padd.sh v3.10.0 for 800x480px display Be careful because now PADD auto-center itself in bigger screen/terminal, so you need to change ..
|
|
About a month ago I decided to run a little experiment with tax loss harvesting: I was going to sell my shares of Microsoft at a loss and then rebuy them a month later, thus giving me the ability to claim the loss on my taxes next year.
|
The tl;dr is this: You can fix the problem by replacing number with ReturnType
|
|
The tl;dr is this: You can fix the problem by replacing number with ReturnType
|
|
Bash script: Sort a large directory into alphabetical subdirectories
-
datalars.com
-
3 years ago
-
eng
Every so often, I download something off the internet that is delivered as a multitude of files in a root folder, with no kind of sorting applied to it. Big sets of games for the PICO-8 engine, perhaps, or an assorted collection of music files. Often times these sets, especially if they are games, will go onto an embedded device like a modified games console, a flash cart, or onto an emulation handheld, which makes browsing 7349 files a nig....
|
|
In this article, we'll build a secure API gateway from scratch using only Node.js and a couple of open source packages. All you need is basic knowledge of your terminal, Node.js version 14 or later, and JavaScript.
|
|
New Service, AnonymousOverflow ~cobra Wed, 28 Dec 2022 I have set up AnonymousOverflow on ~vern. AnonymousOverflow is a front-end for StackOverflow. I have been waiting for quite a while for a project like this, and it has been released only a few hours ago. It doesn’t support user pages yet, but that’s to be expected with such a new project. Thanks for being part of ~vern!
|
|
New Service, Rural Dictionary ~cobra Wed, 28 Dec 2022 I have deployed Rural Dictionary on ~vern’s servers. Rural Dictionary is, as you may have guessed, a front-end for Urban Dictionary, which I helped develop along with a ~vern community member. Thanks for being part of our community!
|
|
Software at Scale 53 - Testing Culture with Mike Bland
-
www.softwareatscale.dev
-
3 years ago
-
eng
Mike Bland is a software instigator - he helped drive adoption of automated testing at Google, and the Quality Culture Initiative at Apple.
|
|
This article was written by my colleague, Cathie Yun. Cathie is an applied cryptographer and security engineer, currently working with me to make fully homomorphic encryption a reality at Google. She’s also done a lot of cool stuff with zero knowledge proofs. In previous articles, we’ve discussed techniques used in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes. The basis for many FHE schemes, as well as other privacy-preserving protocols, is t..
|
|
This article was written by my colleague, Cathie Yun. Cathie is an applied cryptographer and security engineer, currently working with me to make fully homomorphic encryption a reality at Google. She’s also done a lot of cool stuff with zero knowledge proofs. In previous articles, we’ve discussed techniques used in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes. The basis for many FHE schemes, as well as other privacy-preserving protocols, is t..
|
|
This article was written by my colleague, Cathie Yun. Cathie is an applied cryptographer and security engineer, currently working with me to make fully homomorphic encryption a reality at Google. She’s also done a lot of cool stuff with zero knowledge proofs. In previous articles, we’ve discussed techniques used in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes. The basis for many FHE schemes, as well as other privacy-preserving protocols, is t..
|
|
I tend to shy away from publishing cases, so Stoner has been resting on my yeah-maybe-one-day list for years. Over time I stumbled on notable mentions that kept the book on the fringe of my attention zone. Then one day, I read a brief and intriguing [review][2] in Giovanni Zagni’s excellent newsletter, Incertezze . Like me, Zagni suffers from the stay-away-from-editorial-cases idiosyncrasy, but he finally gave in, read the thing, reread ..
|
|
CCS proposal for koe's work on Seraphis, Research Lab and Community Workgroup meetings, new releases and more...
|
|
Explore the fediverse, but use block like it's a machine gun in a zombie apocalypse
-
boyter.org
-
3 years ago
-
eng
I didn’t really expect to have a post this late in the year but here we go. Lets go through some assumptions that were broken for me recently. Not just my own through perhaps some other peoples assumptions too. I have been working with ActivityPub for a bit. I want to run my own server, beyond installing some 3rd party. I want to build my own from scratch. However this rapidly exposed some problems with testing ActivityPub.
|
|
26 programming languages in 25 days, Part 1: Strategy, tactics and logistics
-
matt.might.net
-
3 years ago
-
eng
Since making a sudden leap from computer science to academic medicine about seven years ago, I haven’t programmed as much. I love what I do in medicine and biology, and I love helping patients. But, I have missed programming – and programming languages. Then I came across the Advent of Code on Mastodon – a series of daily two-part puzzles for programmers that runs for 25 days. On a whim, I solved the Day 1 puzzle using awk . ....
|
|
Learn about the developer security tooling from Snyk that will help you level up your skills to find and fix security vulnerabilities in the code you write and the dependencies you use so you can build secure applications.
|
|
Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons by Ben Riggs Author’s website Slaying the Dragon is a business history of TSR, focusing on the Lorraine Williams period (1985-1997). During this period, TSR recovered from the excesses of the Gygax/Blume Brothers period, launched the 2nd edition rules, novels line, and attempted pivots and expansions of their IP. However, the sales declined continued until they were purchase....
|
|
Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons by Ben Riggs Author’s website Slaying the Dragon is a business history of TSR, focusing on the Lorraine Williams period (1985-1997). During this period, TSR recovered from the excesses of the Gygax/Blume Brothers period, launched the 2nd edition rules, novels line, and attempted pivots and expansions of their IP. However, the sales declined continued until they were purchase....
|
This is a comic that got started back in May of 2015, but CosCrus Anon vanished during 2017 because ...
|
|
Median of the shifts vs. shift of the medians, Part 2: Gaussian efficiency
-
aakinshin.net
-
3 years ago
-
eng
This post evaluates the Gaussian efficiency of the Hodges–Lehmann location shift estimator against the difference of sample medians. In Pragmastat, Shift formalizes the more efficient approach. Confidence intervals are available via ShiftBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat In the previous post , we discussed the difference between shifts of the medians and the [[hodges-lehmann-estimator|Hodges-Lehman..
|
|
Median of the shifts vs. shift of the medians, Part 2: Gaussian efficiency
-
aakinshin.net
-
3 years ago
-
eng
This post evaluates the Gaussian efficiency of the Hodges–Lehmann location shift estimator against the difference of sample medians. In Pragmastat, Shift formalizes the more efficient approach. Confidence intervals are available via ShiftBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat In the previous post , we discussed the difference between shifts of the medians and the [[hodges-lehmann-estimator|Hodges-Lehman..
|
|
ChatGPT has been blowing up the internet lately, and I wanted to build something fun with it. Here’s my vision of a dystopian future where…
|
|
This December, my girlfriend and I took a brief holiday and went to southern Germany. We wanted to visit weihnachtsmärkte , the famous Christmas markets, and go snow hiking. While walking some trails around Oberreute , more than once, we noticed two intertwined trees, already quite tall and grown up. It is a shame we did not take a picture, but it was interesting to see these two thin trunks, born one next to the other, rising in a spiral....
|
|
I don’t like any of the funnel or cohort analysis tools available to me
-
vikramoberoi.com
-
3 years ago
-
eng
I do like these silly funnels, though. Ten years ago, while starting the Data Engineering team at Harry’s, I wrote a suite of cohort analysis queries that looked more-or-less like the queries in this post. The success of the razor and blades model hinges on high customer retention so we tracked it religiously from day one. Retention was so critical at Harry’s that I even wrote a haiku about it once.
|
|
Are you tired of having a particular buffer pop open in the wrong direction? Do you wish, for example, that the Racket REPL buffer showed up on the right in a vertical split, rather than below in a horizontal one? Look no further. I give you, display-buffer-alist: ( add-to-list ' display-buffer-alist '(" \\*Racket REPL \\* " ( display-buffer-in-direction ) ( direction . right ))) That little snippe....
|
|
Are you tired of having a particular buffer pop open in the wrong direction? Do you wish, for example, that the Racket REPL buffer showed up on the right in a vertical split, rather than below in a horizontal one? Look no further. I give you, display-buffer-alist: ( add-to-list ' display-buffer-alist '(" \\*Racket REPL \\* " ( display-buffer-in-direction ) ( direction . right ))) That little snippe....
|
|
This December, my girlfriend and I took a brief holiday and went to southern Germany. We wanted to visit weihnachtsmärkte , the famous Christmas markets, and go snow hiking. While walking some trails around Oberreute , more than once, we noticed two intertwined trees, already quite tall and grown up. It is a shame we did not take a picture, but it was interesting to see these two thin trunks, born one next to the other, rising in a spiral....
|
|
Five Reasons Your PHP Application is Hard to Containerize for Production
-
alanastorm.com
-
3 years ago
-
eng
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Containers, Containers, Containers. Earlier posts include What is a Container and why Docker Makes that a Difficult Question to Answer, and Running Go Programs in Docker Scratch Containers. Later posts include Accessing Docker Desktop's Virtual Machine. First — the container/docker/K8s approach presumes that your application can easily run as a stand-alone Linux process and PHP applications aren’t sta..
|
|
This is a write-up about an experiment from a few months ago, in how to find websites that are similar to each other. Website similarity is useful for many things, including discovering new websites to crawl, as well as suggesting similar websites in the Marginalia Search random exploration mode. A link to a slapdash interface for exploring the experimental data. The approach chosen was to use the link graph look for websites that are..
|
|
I’ve never quite been happy with the personal logos I’ve designed. I’ve spent an enormous amount of time working on various options, but I’ve never been completely satisfied.
|
|
I originally envisioned writing this post some time back - in early 2022, Twitter escalated its dark patterns, requiring accounts (or viewing on a phone) to see certain content. My draft sat long enough (though less than a year) for that to become quaint, but the point I intend to make is increasingly relevant - that we are witnessing a blurring of the public square and the megaphone, and that this blurring has a number of worrying side-e....
|