Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2023-02.

A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar.

Tags: tech, social-media, fediverse, culture

A very interesting metaphor. Indeed on social media we’re not dealing with gardens.

https://powazek.com/posts/3571

Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens

Tags: tech, automotive, ux

Not very scientific, but indeed thought provoking and taps into safety considerations.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-finds-that-buttons-in-cars-are-safer-and-quicker-to-use-than-touchscreens

I scanned every package on PyPi and found 57 live AWS keys

Tags: tech, security, secrets, python

This is apparently a somewhat common mistake. Something is apparently not easy enough to handle and error prone.

https://tomforb.es/i-scanned-every-package-on-pypi-and-found-57-live-aws-keys/

The yaml document from hell

Tags: tech, yaml

A few examples of why yaml is getting out of control. It is very very error prone at this point.

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

How to store your app’s entire state in the url

Tags: tech, web, browser

Interesting approach although you probably don’t want to do this systematically. For some applications it is a good idea.

https://www.scottantipa.com/store-app-state-in-urls

Introduction - Just Programmer’s Manual

Tags: tech, tools, command-line

Interesting little tool. I usually use make for this kind of things, but it seems to bring some benefits for non build tasks.

https://just.systems/man/en/

Makefiles for Web Work – Ross Zurowski

Tags: tech, command-line, tools, unix

A love letter to Makefiles. A couple of interesting tricks in there.

https://rosszurowski.com/log/2022/makefiles

What Happens When A CPU Starts

Tags: tech, cpu

Nice nugget reminding us the early steps and basic mechanisms of the CPU life at boot.

https://lateblt.tripod.com/bit68.txt

The Power of Prolog

Tags: tech, programming, logic, prolog

Nice resource to get started with Prolog.

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog

Architecture diagrams should be code - BAM Weblog

Tags: tech, architecture, diagrams

I’m more and more tempted by this kind of approach. Managing architecture models using code seems fairly neat. That said I wish we’d have better free software tooling for that, I find it still fairly limited. Maybe I should check out the Haskell library which is mentioned.

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/architecture_code

Shopify: Say no to meetings | UNLEASH

Tags: tech, management, meetings

Always a good idea to seek reduction in time spent in meetings. I’ve seen this being too often a drain. Can get quickly out of control.

https://www.unleash.ai/hr-technology/shopify-encourages-employees-to-say-no-to-meetings/

Epochalypse

Tags: tech, unix, date, funny

It’s comiiing! OK… not quite yet. But if that prevents your sleep here is an easy way to check.

https://www.epochalypse.today/

The science of why you have great ideas in the shower

Tags: science

Finally, we have an idea of why we get ideas in “strange” moments. Fascinating stuff.

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/08/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower

Bye for now!