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.
linkhut
A bookmarking service that is OpenSource and also apparently API-compatible with Pinboard.
From Pinboard to Raindrop
One person's exsperience of migrating from Pinboard to Raindrop.
Pinboard vs. Raindrop
A comparison of Pinboard vs Raindrop.
Three month suspension for a Core Developer
It's good to see that the Python community cares about its CoC.
GeoFS - Free Online Flight Simulator
A web-based flight simulator. What's not to like?
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.
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.