GeoFS - Free Online Flight Simulator
A web-based flight simulator. What's not to like?
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I fact-checked Ben Shapiro so you don’t have to
An entertaining takedown of some Ben Shapiro nonsense.
RISEN: 5 Steps to Build Context-Rich AI Prompts
A guide to an approach to writing good LLM prompts.
Senior Software Engineer - D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.
Hey! You! Yes, you! Looking for a senior hacker role? Want to work for the second biggest creator of comics called DC¹? Fancy working in a team and environment that, in my experience, is the nicest group of folk I’ve worked with in the 35 years I’ve been banging on keyboards for money? Think you could cope working with me? (Okay, fine, forget that last part).
Perhaps know someone who might like that?
1: I think. Honestly, I’ve not actually fact-checked that.
WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial
A tutorial on getting to grips with WebGPU.
After 15 years, the maintainer of Homebrew plans to make a living
Measuring Software Delivery With DORA Metrics - YouTube
Video introducing DORA metrics.
The Wrong Way to Use DORA Metrics - The New Stack
A source of concerns and counter-points to getting too excited about using DORA to measure things.
DORA | Get Better at Getting Better
"DORA is the largest and longest running research program of its kind, that seeks to understand the capabilities that drive software delivery and operations performance. DORA helps teams apply those capabilities, leading to better organizational performance."
UK Fossil Collecting
Good resource for background information on fossil-hunting in the UK.
Home - Lambda Forge
A tool for quickly building Lambda functions.
BSoD maker
Build your own Blue Screen of Death!
(glisp) - Online iteractive Lisp playground
A fun-looking online interactive Lisp playground; feels like the turtle graphics environments of old but with a Lisp.
Python Software Foundation Code of Conduct - Python Software Foundation Policies
Just like it says on the tin:the code of conduct of the Python Foundation.
wyuenho/emacs-pet: Tracks down the correct Python tooling executables from your virtualenvs so you can glue the binaries to Emacs and delete code in init.el
What looks to be a module for Emacs that helps find the right venv for a project; I think. Saving this to look at at some point in the future.
How boto3 impacts the cold start times of your Lambda functions | tecRacer Amazon AWS Blog
An analysis of how boto3 affects the code start times of AWS Lamdas.
Obsidian URI
Obsidian has a URI that can do a bunch of differen things. Very handy, especially if you want to kick off stuff from other code and apps.
Wrong license · Issue #16 · mdmintz/pynose
This looks like a really great example of not now to handle the licnece of a fork, and also how not to handle the feedback you get when you make such a change.
What we know about microdosing candy illnesses as death investigation underway
While I've read on and off about the possible benefits of microdosing, I hadn't realised that (in the US anyway) you could actually buy edible things that implement this. This also suggests it's not been done well or clearly.
Pseudo parameters reference - AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation pseudo parameter reference.
Intrinsic function reference - AWS CloudFormation
The guide to CloudFormation intrinsic functions.
Build Your Own Lisp
A book all about building your own Lisp.
Stop using Brave Browser
Some problematic history relating to the Brave browser.
eplot: Emacs library for creating charts
Library for doing pretty nice-looking plots in Emacs.
Evaluating & Debunking Dry Needling as an Injury Recovery Method
Article with references that talks about how efefctive, if at all, dry-needling is as a treatment.
The Effectiveness of Trigger Point Dry Needling for Musculoskeletal Conditions by Physical Therapists: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - PubMed
Review of evidence for how effective, if at all effective, so-called "dry-needling" is.
ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968)
The document that introduced the graphical representations of control characters.
PEP 2026 – Calendar versioning for Python | peps.python.org
A proposal to change the way that Python's version numbers work.
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
"The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself."
A rant that's pretty much about how money-grabbing idiots are slapping AI on any old shit. We all know who they are.
Boto3 1.34.129 documentation
"You use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to create, configure, and manage AWS services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The SDK provides an object-oriented API as well as low-level access to AWS services."