Web Review, Week 2023-02
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.
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.
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.
Bye for now!