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Jun 27, 2023 from nutcroft

Fight Club has the answers

It’s a few hours after watching the Fight Club for the second time in my life that I write these words. It's been more than decade since I watched it for the first time and even though I had liked ...

Jun 27, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The Optics

The significance of questioning widely-held beliefs and how this can lead to new insights.

Jun 23, 2023 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta

Google Apps Script APIs performance

During the last few months, as I was implementing a few scripts on Google’s Apps Script, I needed to answer the question of what is the right place to store data.

Jun 22, 2023 from Changelog

WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030

This is a fancified excerpt of Jonathan Norris’ unpopular opinion on Go Time #275. Jonathan is Co-Founder & CTO @ DevCycle where they’re using WebAssembly in very interesting ways. To get the full ...

Jun 22, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog

Introducing The Spatial Cypher Cheat Sheet

A resource for working with geospatial data in Neo4j.

Jun 16, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Forums

My experience of using forums in my teens, what changed after I started using reddit and my hopes for internet communities in the future.

Jun 04, 2023 from Joybuke

Lefties Always Come to Meetings Armed

Imagine that two kingdoms are at war, let’s call one the Kingdom of Letoid (The Letoids), and the other kingdom is the Kingdom of Righcuk (The Righcuks). These two kingdoms have been at war for 30 ...

May 31, 2023 from nutcroft

The misery of applications

Our world is now one full of applications. Not the computerised ones, although it’s full of those too. The form-that-you-need-to-fill ones. Applications for jobs, for universities, for conferences,...

May 26, 2023 from PRBS23

Combining Dist Constarints in SystemVerilog

Basic Distribution Constraints In SystemVerilog, almost all constraints are some form of boolean expression. The constraint solver’s job is to satisfy all these boolean expression when choosing ran...

May 24, 2023 from Changelog

There's still no silver bullet

The late, great Fred Brooks wrote many words about software engineering. You may have heard of Brooks’s Law or read his seminal book, The Mythical Man-Month. Even if you haven’t, you’ve probably he...

May 24, 2023 from Boris Tane

Observability with ClickHouse

A "behind the scenes" view into building an observability solution with ClickHouse.

May 19, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Reduce your stress: Use a Kanban Board

Here's a trick I've been using for several years to organize my work, and reduce my stress.

May 18, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Sanitize ArXiv RSS feeds

If you like to dip your toes into the latest stats research on ArXiv, one of the best way to track what’s going on is by following the RSS feed. So, naturally, I do this in Emacs/Gnus, and it actua...

May 18, 2023 from nutcroft

Negations and characteristics of democracy

Let’s attempt to paint what democracy is through its various characteristics and facets. Let’s also talk about the negative space. Understanding what democracy isn’t will help us see the limits of ...

May 15, 2023 from Volution Notes

Learning before dabbling in applied cryptography

A live document providing learning resources and pointers for those that want to experiment with applied cryptography.

May 13, 2023 from Volution Notes

Misusing random oracles for practical purposes

Experimenting with various real-world instantiations of cryptographic random oracles, with applicability from multi-factor encryption, to database record encryption.

May 12, 2023 from Volution Notes

Experimenting with multi-factor encryption

Prototyping an encryption tool that allows combining multiple encryption factors, from PIN's, passwords, to X25519 pairs, and beyond.

May 04, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The Mashup

Life has a way of introducing us to new things, related or not to our professional life.

May 03, 2023 from Joybuke

The Anatomy of the Rot

Concisely, precisely, this article will explain the anatomy of the rot that afflicts society as a whole. The source of this rot, how the rot manifests itself, and the conclusions of what the rot wi...

May 03, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Sampling from the Wilson score confidence distribution

library(binom) library(HDInterval) If you’ve worked with Binomial data for a project, you might know that there’s about 10 different ways to calculate a confidence interval for the Binomial proport...