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Mar 28, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Learning the Haystack

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Mar 27, 2024 from Hammy Havoc

Tony Warriner – Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness Book Review

I wrote a book review on Tony Warriner’s Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness. The post Tony Warriner – Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness Book Review appeared fir...

Mar 27, 2024 from Heitor's log

Prettify and uglify JSONs in Vim

How to turn ugly JSONs into pretty JSONs inside Vim. And vice versa.

Mar 24, 2024 from Outside the Asylum

Tournament Simulator

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

Mar 20, 2024 from Londogard Blog

TIL: Pixi by prefix.dev

This is a very short one. Keeping it for myself! For my recent minor projects I’ve been utilizing Pixi to run my virtual environments and it actually works great! It’s simple to start and keep goin...

Mar 19, 2024 from Michael Lynch

Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?

.chart-container { max-width: 800px; max-height: 300px; display: flex; justify-content: center; } For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and...

Mar 15, 2024 from Hammy Havoc

Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide

I wrote an article for Previous Magazine called Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide. The post Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide appeared first on Hammy Havoc.

Mar 13, 2024 from Gonçalo Valério

Security.txt in the wild

A few years ago, I covered here in the blog the “security.txt spec”. A standard place with the security related contacts, designed to help researchers, and other people, find the right contacts to ...

Mar 13, 2024 from Ryan Schachte's Blog

Wireguard tunneling in user space with Netstack's virtualized TCP/IP stack

Fun with HTTP proxies and user space tunnels with Wireguard

Mar 13, 2024 from Volution Notes

Pre-hashing large password files used with PBKDFs

A subtle, but surprising, realization about password-based key-derivation functions when using long byte sequences as passwords.

Mar 12, 2024 from Outside the Asylum

Don't Go to TCG-Con

I explain why you shouldn't go to TCG-Con.

Mar 12, 2024 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

You might not need Redis

Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. My impression is that not even PostgreSQL has the same kind of positive aura around it. And of all tech available Redis is at the top of things...

Mar 07, 2024 from shankhs

Use CMake to build and run cross-platform (WIN32 and LINUX) code. (Part 1)

CMake is a build configuration tool. In other words, CMake generates Makefiles. This post gives an example on how to configure CMake (the actual content of CMakeLists.txt) to build and run C++ code...

Mar 06, 2024 from Ishan Das Sharma

When Using `bc`, `scale` Doesn't Round!

Ever stumbled upon a weird problem and couldn’t quite figure out where things went wrong? I’ve been there, and so has a friend of mine while tackling a HackerRank challenge. The task seemed simple:...

Mar 04, 2024 from Ryan Schachte's Blog

Observability and experimentation with ephemeral network clusters

Setting up Prometheus & Grafana w/ an ephemeral Kubernetes cluster

Mar 04, 2024 from Max Brenner

My first steps in indie hacking

Photo by Jake Hills / image source Hey, thanks for stopping by. After over two years of silence on this blog I finally felt the urge to write about something that is worth sharing again. A lot has ...

Mar 03, 2024 from Ishan Das Sharma

Read This Next: Using AI For Recommending Posts On My Blog

Featured Photo by Javier Allegue Barros. Imagine landing on a blog where every “Read This Next” suggestion feels like it was handpicked just for you. That’s the kind of reading journey I want for y...

Feb 29, 2024 from Outside the Asylum

The Duality of Machine

In which I am grumpy about bad philosophy of mind.

Feb 27, 2024 from Bartosz Ciechanowski

Airfoil

The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for...

Feb 25, 2024 from Outside the Asylum

An Actually Intuitive Explanation of P-Values

Academic science revolves largely around one number, the "p-value". This number has been the cause of a huge amount of confusion, so I spent a week trying to figure out what it actually means. I th...