Sep 26, 2023 from Luke Salamone's Blog What is a blunder in chess? What is a blunder in chess? The tension between the qualitative and quantitative answers to this question is at the heart of different approaches towards chess, and more broadly, how quantitative m...
Sep 26, 2023 from Luke Salamone's Blog What is a blunder in chess? What is a blunder in chess? The tension between the qualitative and quantitative answers to this question is at the heart of different approaches towards chess, and more broadly, how quantitative m...
Sep 25, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog Importing Overture Maps Data Into Neo4j A look at loading points of interest from the Overture Maps public dataset into the Neo4j graph database, plus writing Spatial SQL queries with AWS Athena.
Sep 23, 2023 from PREPEND Quantified Kilimanjaro (or Procrastination) I climbed Kilimanjaro via the Rongai route in October of 2012, capturing runkeeper, and other metrics all along the way. I’ve also been meaning to write this post since then and it’s taken over 10 ...
Sep 20, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog Getting the Absolute Path of a Remote Directory in Ansible There is no builtin way to convert a relative path to an absolute path in ansible. However we can use the readlink command for this.
Sep 20, 2023 from Changelog XML is better than YAML. Hear me out... This is a fancified excerpt of Carl M. Johnson’s unpopular opinion on the Go Time podcast. Click here to listen along while you read or watch the video on YouTube. Jump to the end for the poll resu...
Sep 20, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen
Sep 19, 2023 from Heitor's log Multiplexing the output of a process to multiple processes How to feed the output of one process to multiple other processes simultaneously, using tee and Bash's process substitution.
Sep 18, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog Automated Planning using Property-Directed Reachability with Seed Heuristics Masters Thesis. The goal of this thesis is to implement a pre-processing step to the Property Directed Reachability algorithm, to potentially improve the run-time performance. We use the pattern da...
Sep 18, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog Modelling Git Operations as Planning Problems Bachelor Thesis. The goal of this thesis is to formally define a model of a subset of Git commands which mutate the revision graph, and to model those mutations as a planning task in the Planning D...
Sep 18, 2023 from Home on Random effect Air Quality Indicator There is a new utility on my GitHub page, air-quality.el. It’s a status indicator for the Emacs modeline. I wanted a way to glance at how the air quality in my area changes through out the day with...
Sep 17, 2023 from Karl Bartel's Website Consistent Handling of Git Repositories With Different Default Branches Consistent Handling of Git Repositories With Different Default Branches Why Do I Care About Default Branches? Typically, I develop on a feature branch, and when the feature is ready, there is an ob...
Sep 17, 2023 from Karl Bartel's Website Consistent Handling of Git Repositories With Different Default Branches Consistent Handling of Git Repositories With Different Default Branches Why Do I Care About Default Branches? Typically, I develop on a feature branch, and when the feature is ready, there is an ob...
Sep 15, 2023 from Changelog Strange Loop's greatest hits The LAST Strange Loop conference is right around the corner! The conference has accumulated 673 videos on its YouTube channel, which means there’s gold in them hills, but finding the gold might con...
Sep 12, 2023 from Volution Notes Lightweight container building blocks Documenting various open-source tools and projects that I've found while experimenting with the Linux container technology.
Sep 12, 2023 from unixdigest.com Bethesda's Starfield is a disgrace to game development and a slap in the face to gamers Nowadays PC gamers are used as guinea pigs when big gaming titles are released with major bugs, major performance issues, and other similar problems. Even though PC gamers are used as guinea pigs, ...
Sep 11, 2023 from Volution Notes Please don't write application launchers in `sh`! `sh` is not a programming language! Write application launchers in proper languages!
Sep 11, 2023 from Volution Notes We need deterministic installs, not just immutable OSs Immutable OSs are just a minor step towards reliable OS installations. However, for a complete solution we also need reproducible and thus deterministic installations, which implies cleaning-up and...
Sep 08, 2023 from Michael Lynch Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer internship program. The film is called Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks, and it follows four college inte...
