Jan 10, 2025 from unixdigest.com What if one of your online friends dies unexpectedly? A lot of people experience online friends "vanishing" without notice. A new nonprofit project tries to help prevent this issue and it's worth joining and supporting the project!
Jan 09, 2025 from Londogard Blog Image to Lego (Xmas Project) Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Good New Year! š„³ Disclaimer: Iām not affiliated with LEGO and this is a personal project. Ever wished you could turn a photo into a LEGO masterpiece? This holi...
Jan 08, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog Blog Questions Challenge I saw a couple of posts about a āblog questions challengeā pop up in my feed reader this week (written by Leilukin, Hedy, or Luke, for example) and decided to participate. Itās a collection of inte...
Jan 08, 2025 from Michael Lynch if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests Thereās an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds. Instead of writing Go tests like this: // The common, unrefined way. username := GetUser() if ...
Jan 07, 2025 from Coding Horror Stay Gold, America We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
Jan 07, 2025 from Paul's Weblog Mils Well, thanks to Ben & Ben at Gears & Gasoline Iām now painfully and acutely aware that when someone says āmilā or āmilsā, particularly in North America, theyāre possibly referring to thousands of a...
Jan 06, 2025 from ~hedy Blog questions challenge Kev Quirk started a personal blog challenge where you answer a few questions and ātagā a few people of your choosing to do the same. The questions are all meta in nature and I already have a dedica...
Jan 05, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage Observations From India In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see thin...
Jan 05, 2025 from Remote Synthesis Grading my 2024 Predictions for Developers I wasn't bold and nonetheless I didn't do great. Sheesh.
Jan 03, 2025 from Darek Kay Grab browser links and titles in one click A bookmarklet to copy browser tab URLs with titles as rich text and Markdown.
Jan 03, 2025 from ~hedy š The Night Circus The Night Circus is a book I had wanted to read for a long time, as an enjoyer of other āmagical circusā stories inspired by it. It ended up giving me mixed feelings, and so it was difficult to wri...
Jan 03, 2025 from Anirudh Oppiliappan Push-based productivity Getting told when to get things done Way back in 2021, I wrote about my productivity endeavours, which wereāin summaryāme writing a list of todos in a notebook. I still carry these around to quickl...
Jan 03, 2025 from Sophia Willows' Blog You just canāt be Googling āSelectā Iāve been extremely fortunate over the course of my career, and Iāve been able to learn from some truly incredible people working in software. It truly does ātake a village,ā and some of the best g...
Jan 02, 2025 from The Linkfest Linkfest #29: "Methanotropes", Sign-Language Poetry, and Why Saturn's About To Lose Its Rings Why hey there, fellow prisoners of the Internet. Itās time for "the opposite of doomscrollingā ā or, my latest āLinkfestā, in which I pan relentlessly for nuggets in the fractal, murky creeks of cy...
Jan 02, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog āShould PLDI return to in-person Program Committee meetings?ā ā Survey results [Note: Since PLDI joined the PACM-PL journal, what was previously called Program Committee is now called Review Committee. In the following, we use the term Program Committee (PC) because it is a b...
Jan 02, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk My 2024 reflections Hey yāallā¦ I know I havenāt written any new post in a while. My grandma was hospitalised in late October (around one week after my birthday) and passed away in December, so Iāve been very preoccupi...
Jan 02, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog About the Past Year - 2024 Wow, itās been a quarter of a century since Y2K. We all know that time flies, but it still feels surreal sometimes. Saying that 2024 was a rather uneventful year would probably be too much, but at ...
Jan 02, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Adding new entries to a Supabase postgres table via REST API I read this blog post from Jordan on how he created a simple feature request form on his iOS app using Supabaseās Swift library. I wanted to try this out on Python to see how easy would be to imple...
Jan 01, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage Science Proceeds One Question at a Time MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by Alfred Wallace. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently developed a theory...
Jan 01, 2025 from Remote Synthesis 2024 Year In Review 2024 was filled with challenges, but also some exciting moments.
