On Basecamp (AKA Cringe-camp)
A rather well-done critical review of DHH's explanation of the anti-staff policy changes at Basecamp.
What really happened at Basecamp
Good background to the management meltdown at Basecamp.
Markdown to Slideshow : MarkShow
Handy-looking Markdown-based online presentation tool.
Hyperdeck Markdown Presentations for iPad and macOS
Markdown-based presentation tool for macOS and iPadOS.
Green Vs. Brown Programming Languages
Article exploring some of the most-loved and most-despised programming languages, and exploring the culture around them. With a bit of a laugh thrown in.
Lunar Flight - Basic Flight Tutorial - YouTube
Really useful basic tutorial for flying Lunar Flight in VR.
Problems | Project Lovelace
A pretty neat list of programming problems, that are intented to be solved in a number of languages and the solutions tested. Good for people getting to grips with a new language, or with programming in general.
How to make the text size of the OBS settings menu bigger
This has been driving me buts for a week. My my TV as my main screen for a Windows machine, and so needing font scaling to be 300%, OBS' UI was impossible to use as the fonts were not scaling.
This sorts it perfectly.
VTOL VR voice commands
VTOL VR does voice recognition! This little sim keeps on impressing me.
Web WinAmp
Webamp, it really whips the llama's ass!
How to create beautiful PDFs from HTML
Tutorial on how to get really good-looking PDFs from HTML.
Why the Emacs virgins joke is so problematic
This is a great description of why the Emacs virgins "joke" is so problematic, and why it helpfully demonstrates so many of the problems with RMS' influence over Emacs and Free Software culture.
The Insensitive Ruins It All: Compositional and Compilational Influences of Social Sensitivity on Collective Intelligence in Groups
A group's collective intelligence reflects its capacity to perform well across a variety of cognitive tasks and it transcends the individual intelligence of its members. Previous research shows that group members' social sensitivity is a potential antecedent of collective intelligence, yet it is still unclear whether individual or group-level indices are responsible for the positive association between social sensitivity and collective intelligence. In a comprehensive manner, we test the extent to which both compositional (lowest and highest individual score) and compilational aspects (emergent group level) of social sensitivity are associated with collective intelligence. This study has implications for research that explores groups as information processors, and for group design as it indicates how a group should be composed with respect to social sensitivity if the group is to reach high levels of collective intelligence. Our empirical results indicate that collectively intelligent groups are those in which the least socially sensitive group member has a rather high score on social sensitivity. Differently stated, (socially sensitive) group members cannot compensate for the lack of social sensitivity of the other group members.
Deleting Git Branches with Magit
As this article says, I've always tended to drop down to the CLI to delete a branch, and ensure it's cleaned from the remote, etc. Somehow I'd never picked up on the fact that Magit just handles this. And of course, it does, Magit does so much!
Men’s skirts become pandemic fashion trend
Kilts are awesome. Skirts are awesome. Isn’t it about time we removed gender-associations from pretty much all clothing and just have… clothes?
An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions
As per the title: an open letting calling for the removal of RMS from all Free Software leadership positions; especially now that he's been let back into one within the FSF.
Echo Arena - VR Master League - Team - Esports
My son's EchoVR team.
RESURRECTING FORTRAN
Fortran wasn't dead, but it did smell a bit funny. Some work to make it a bit more "modern".
How to make VR with the web, a new video series - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Interesting-looking tutorial on making VR apps with the Web.
Reactive abuse
Interesting explanation of the idea of "reactive abuse", where an abuser keeps abusing someone until they get to the point that they react and then the reaction is called abuse.
Advice to Regretful pwBPD
Quote: "The number-one complaint among loved ones isn’t manipulation, splitting, mood swings, rage, jealousy, devaluation, triangulation, the victim Olympics, or really any of the well-known drama/trauma/abuse. It’s the pervasive lack of accountability."
OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes - The Verge
Rather funny hacking of an AI/machine-learning vision recognition system.
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
That thing where you obviously release something that works, just doesn't work well enough, and you never go back and improve it 'cos it works and, well... it's working yeah?
That.
The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
One of the classics of the Internet. I like this alot.
r/BPDlovedones support wiki
Very useful support resource I wish I'd found when I needed it most. The second best time to have discovered it is now, of course.
Get to Know Benchling Validated Cloud
Webinar covering information about Benchling's "Validated Cloud" offering.
lisp-journey.gitlab.io
Handy view of the state of the Common Lisp ecosystem as of 2020.
A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
This document explores methods for squeezing excess bytes out of simple programs. (Of course, the more practical purpose of this document is to describe a few of the inner workings of the ELF file format and the Linux operating system. But hopefully you can also learn something about how to make really teensy ELF executables in the process.)
Benchling Product Release Announcements
Product release notes (ChangeLog, kinda) for Benchling.
Computer Graphics from Scratch
This broad introductory book gives you an overview of the computer graphics field with a focus on two core areas of modern graphics: raytracing and rasterization. Links to interactive demos throughout bring the algorithms alive. Every algorithm is built up without the use of external libraries or APIs and is presented with language agnostic pseudocode, allowing anyone with a basic understanding of programming and high school math to follow along.