Rich

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich

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#ascii #python #misc

How to criticize code

Criticizing code is an important skill. It helps transmit norms, increase team knowledge, and improve solutions. But it isn’t something that comes naturally; I had to learn how to do it. Similar to learning how to edit other’s essays, you must learn how to critique team member’s programming.

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2021/01/25/how-to-criticize-code/

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#misc #learn

How to win at CORS

CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is hard. It's hard because it's part of how browsers fetch data, and that's a set of behaviours that started over 30 years ago that require adding features, improving defaults, and papering over past mistakes all without breaking too much of the web.

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/cors/

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#web #misc #learn

Android Dialer Secret Codes

Secret Codes is an Open Source application that allows you to browse through hidden codes of your Android phone.

https://github.com/SimonMarquis/Android-SecretCodes

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#misc #android #extra

The Lost Art of Structure Packing

This page is about a technique for reducing the memory footprint of programs in compiled languages with C-like structures - manually repacking these declarations for reduced size.

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

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#c #struct #learn #misc

Pursue High-Quality Leisure

If I stop mindlessly surfing the internet, what am I going to do all day?

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/pursue-high-quality-leisure

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#offtopic #health

Obsidian.‎md

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

https://obsidian.md/

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#editor #markdown #extra

sync: ExampleWaitGroup includes a porn website url · Issue #48886

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48886

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#golang #meme #github

Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/14/leave-no-trace-how-a-teenage-hacker-lost-himself-online

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#security #extra

Scribe

An alternative and lightweight frontend to Medium. No cookie warnings, no paywalls, supports Reader Mode.

https://scribe.rip/

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#extra #misc

The Norway Problem

YAML, is Norway a lie?

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/

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#learn #misc #yaml

Goodbye Transistor? New Optical Switches Offer up to 1,000x Better Performance

'Optical Accelerators' ditch electricity, favoring light as an exchange medium.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/goodbye-transistor-new-optical-switches-offer-up-to-1000x-better-performance

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#research #hardware

You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly

The setup.py interface is an old convention from distutils, one that has bugs that cannot be fixed to bring it into line with modern Python packaging approaches.

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html

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#python #pip #extra

Pipe Operator for JavaScript

A proposal for adding a useful pipe operator to JavaScript.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

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#javanoscript #web #misc

Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money

Deleting an S3 bucket is harder than you think, and may even cost you money.

https://cloudcasts.io/article/deleting-an-s3-bucket-costs-money

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#aws #learn #misc

Redis Anti-Patterns Every Developer Should Avoid

https://developer.redis.com/howtos/antipatterns/

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#learn #redis #misc

Wiby

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet. About Wiby

https://wiby.me/

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#web #extra

Leaving Google

Last Friday was my last day at Google.

https://jayconrod.com/posts/122/leaving-google

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#google #work

Devtools-Detect

Useful for when you want something special to happen when DevTools is open. Like pausing canvas, adding style debug info, etc.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/devtools-detect

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#dev #misc

Telegram can leave your mic on when you exit voice chat

This time I stumbled upon a bug that I think must be fixed as soon as possible, as it could lead to much more than just a microphone left open...

https://medium.com/@kapakapa197/telegram-can-leave-your-mic-on-when-you-exit-voice-chat

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#telegram #bug #security