Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleges “invasion” of land on US/Mexico border
I didn’t have CAH suing SpaceX on my 2024 bingo card. In retrospect it makes perfect sense. Also… absolutely on brand for SpaceX.
gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website - eva's site
So I’m glad I never got comfortable with Arc, having briefly tried it and not really liked it.
Emacs Docs
The main GNU Emacs documentation, but in a very attractive online form.
VelocityOne Flight - Features And Controls
Details about the features and controls of the VelocityOne Flight Control yoke.
VelocityOne Flight - List Of Programmable Controls
List of all of the programmable controls on the Turtle Beach VelocityOne Flight control.
Why To Not Write A Book
I can think of at least one person who needs to heed this warning. I also know that they won’t.
Dune Shell
Dune is a shell designed for powerful scripting. Think of it as an unholy combination of bash and Lisp.
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram scaled from 0 to 14 million users in just over a year, from October 2010 to December 2011. They did this with only 3 engineers.
They did this by following 3 key principles and having a reliable tech stack.
The comedy and tragedy of detailed feedback
Good opinion piece about code reviews in different environments, contrasting FOSS and corporate styles and impact. I think there’s some good, if obvious, advice in here.
giscus
A widget for blogs and similar that uses GitHub discussions as a comments section. Might be a good idea for my own blog.
(PDF) How to Build Pride in the Workplace?
The question of "pride" in relation to the employee/employer relationship comes up a lot in internal surveys, in my experience. This paper seems to seek to take a fairly technical approach to understanding the importance and impact.
It does raise the more general question though: what does it really mean to be proud of your employer?
We Shall Fight Them in The Strips: Dudley Watkins and the Battle of Britain - The Gutter Review
Someone has suggested to me, without any sources cited, that DC Thomson was a supporter of the Nazi regime back in the 1930s (similar to the history of the Daily Mail, it seems).
I've gone looking for evidence of this claim and found nothing; I did find this though, which was kind of interesting.
A Complete Guide To Behavior-Driven Testing With Pytest BDD
A comprehensive guide to getting started with BDD testing with pytest.
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A pretty wholesome story of some "hacking"; hacking in the correct and best sense of the word.
LaunchFlow - Docs
Another IfC solution; native to Python.
Departure Mono
Not sure I'd ever really have a need for this, but just in case... a fun-looking pixel-based monospace font.
Programming, Motherfucker - Do you speak it?
An anti-agile manifesto, pretty much.
My sticks are moving in a weird way, is it fixable?
Reddit thread covering the problem of stick drift on the Meta Quest 2 controllers.
How to win at CORS
A comprehensive introduction to CORS.
Remove the "Authority" from Packaging - Packaging - Discussions on Python.org
Turns out the A in PyPA, meaning "authority", was originally intended as a joke. TIL.
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).
» Oh Look, Misplaced Transphobia From a Man in Tech
Blog post talking about the bad take of the author of Pinboard. Pretty much the thing that pushed me over the edge on migrating off Pinboard.
S3 Bucket Namesquatting - Abusing predictable S3 bucket names – One Cloud Please
Given I’m fairly new to AWS, I was surprised to find that S3 has a global namespace. And so of course squatting is a thing.
Nitric Cloud-Native Framework | Get Infrastructure from Code
While getting frustrated that all of the IaC offerings I've seen have seemingly had little to do with actual code, I've come across the concept of IfC. This is one example of that approach.
libyear
A simple measure of software dependency freshness. It is a single number telling you how up-to-date your dependencies are.
Exploring the Lisp Family of languages
An exploration of the Lisp family of languages.
Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results
Results of the 2024 Common Lisp community survey.
Bernie Spofforth - RationalWiki
So the individual who has been named in some places as the source of the misinformation that resulted in the UK 2024 summer riots, has a RationalWiki page and some other online history.
Pie Menu - the radial menu for Mac
Love pie menus, so this looks like it could be interesting.
Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?
A not-uncommon theme on the orange site; but this is a useful thread in that there's some options for alterantives given.