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Lessons Learned from the Book “Effective Remote Work”
Lessons Learned from the Book Effective Remote Work by James Stanier
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Functional Programming – How and Why
Let's start with an example. In Advent of Code 2022 day 1 we get groups of numbers as input like: 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 ...
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Interesting things about the Lua interpreter (2020)
The Lua programming language is unusual among its peers. It’s a dynamically typed, scripting language with a really small core (100-200kB), but runs efficiently, has far simpler semantics than other similar languages, and is just as old as the giants like JavaScript, Python, and Ruby – first made in a research lab…
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Why Not Mars
It's slow, expensive, the engineering is mostly port-a-potty chemistry, and the best-case outcome is that thirty years from now we’ll get to watch someone remotely operate a soil scoop from Mars instead of Pasadena
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C++ at the End of 2022
I must admit that some previous years for C++ might feel a bit “boring” and “stable”. New features, new standard every three years, meetings, conferences… life as usual (apart from some additional World/Economy/public Health events…). This year seems different as it looks like a “breakpoint” in the history of C++… and…
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Remaking old computer graphics with AI image generation
Can AI Image generation tools make re-imagined, higher-resolution versions of old video game graphics? Over the last few days, I used AI image generation to reproduce one of my childhood nightmares. I wrestled with Stable Diffusion, Dall-E and Midjourney to see how these commercial AI generation tools can help retell…
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Building a Frankenstein 64
👶 From when Mosaic took over Gopher. 🏢 VP of Engineering @ Cloudflare 🕹️ Slightly addicted to retrocomputing 🔍 Hit Ctrl-K to Search
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Adding design-by-contract conditions to C++ via a GCC plugin
Design-by-Contract's invariant attribute allows you to enforce important properties of systems and data structures, making it an incredibly useful tool for developers. In this blog post, we'll be exploring the development of a GCC plugin that adds support for [[invariant]] conditions in C++ classes and structs. We'll…
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Modeling my Grandpa with 3D Photogrammetry (2021)
Today I released a video about how—and why—I 3D Printed my Grandpa and put him on my bottle of ketchup. Watch it here. I sculpted a bust of my Grandpa in high school, gave it to my grandparents, got it back after he died and my Grandma moved out of her house (I wrote a tribute to my 'Grandpa Charlie'), and I kept on…
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Automating heating with Home Assistant
I’ve been on a mission to use Home Assistant to optimize my home heating, with the dual goals of reducing gas usage and increasing comfort. It’s worked out…
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SQLite 2022 Recap
There have been many improvements to SQLite during 2022. Listed below or just a few of the bigger changes. See the change logs or the trunk timeline for a more complete list of enhancements and improvements.
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Understanding the N + 1 queries problem
In this post, I am going to talk about the N + 1 queries problem. While trying to solve this problem myself recently, I noticed most of the blog posts only talk about the very simple version of the problem and the proposed solutions would break down when the use cases get complex. I will try to get into more depth and…
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“Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry
(First, Some Background)
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Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground
Via this comment on Hacker News I started exploring the ClickHouse Playground . It's really cool, and among other things it allows CORS-enabled API hits that can query a decade of history from the GitHub events archive in less than a second.
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Conversation skills essentials
A teacher friend of mine told me that this year students were different. If she asked to see a hall pass from a freshman, they'd give her the finger. They swore at her and were gen...
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Get Running with Couch to 5K
NHS Couch to 5K will help you get off the couch and gradually work you up to running 5km in just 9 weeks.
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Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop
A rant about "year of Linux on the desktop" from a tired old man. I've been part of the Linux community since before Linux was called Linux. Over the years there's been many people telling me directly that Linux is silly or wrong or imperfect, or that free and open source software is foolish or pointless. A lot more…
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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
An allegory against complacency about aging and death.
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The internet wants to be fragmented
Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work.
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Competitive programming in Haskell: better binary search
Binary search is a workhorse of competitive programming. There are occasional easy problems where binary search is the solution in and of itself; more often, it’s used as a primitive building block…
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USB-C done cheap: when 2 ports become 1 (2020)
How PC hardware is implementing USB-C in a way that may or may not violate standards.
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Report on an Unidentified Space Station (1982)
By good luck we have been able to make an emergency landing on this uninhabited space station. There have been no casualties. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found safe haven at a moment when the expedition was clearly set on disaster.
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To be productive, be prepared
Motivation by itself gives us the willingness to do something, but nothing more. Once we make a start, the game changes and it becomes about knowing how to make progress.
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Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th – December 30
If you installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, please uninstall it and torchtriton immediately, and use the latest nightly binaries (newer than...
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Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`
An alternate to traditional <code>deleted_at</code> soft deletion that stays out of the way and minimizes bugs.
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Worst interview questions for software developers
Forget these interview questions 🙅 and never ask them your potential employees in software development (or elsewhere).
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Xfinity Stream on Linux: A Tale of Widevine, ChromeOS, and a patched Glibc
If your household uses Xfinity for cable, you have almost definitely heard of Xfinity Stream at some point. If you haven’t, Xfinity Stream is a service that allows you to access Xfinity’s on-demand TV over the internet. This can be useful if you want to watch something on Xfinity’s on-demand TV but do not want to go…