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Interesting alternative to oh-my-zsh
Beautiful color scheme
A great article by the author of the PubGrub algorithm, discovered when reading more about the gel gem, an alternative to bundler
Some conventions on naming your gem.
Very well written article explaining everything that comes into a gem specification file. Doesn't take you for a fool, explain things one by one so you can get a better understanding of what you are doing.
Also, use a generator once you understand it!
A new type of function in JS that I had no idea existed! Seems pretty nifty and borrow from Ruby blocks it fells. Well, at least the yield keyword is really nice!
A good introduction to the Rust language, an alternative to the Rust book
We are back to 1915, and we need the new gatekeepers [algorithms] to embed a stronger sense of ethic
To leave us the choice, to be accountable, to be understandable.
The most basic modern day hardware is so complicated trying to understand the basics feels like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, there are people out there like Daniel Thornburgh who through sheer laziness take such complicated structures and break them down into the simplest form. In this informative article, Daniel designs and builds as basic of a CPU, giving us a good understanding of how it works and showering him in nostalgia.
I did not read that but it was shared at Zendesk. Seems like a good read.
Really really really good article about the best use of your time at work. Sometimes, it's about getting the job done, even if it means asking the same question, over and over again.
A key engineering skill is noticing what’s blocked, and figuring out why, following a thread of hints from person to person until you can see what's not moving. You might end up asking the same question again and again. You might get handwavy responses that seem like answers but don't actually give you extra information. That’s how these games go.
Big-O notation, beyond the coding interview
A voir
Learning lxc
Retailers are Getting Better at Branding
Private Label Is Catching Up With Trends
I learnt that the Parkinson’s law of triviality is the other name of the bike shed effect
Un guide (French only) pour développeurs écrit par la CNIL
via https://sebsauvage.net/links/?PUu3cg
A French guy in the US (reminds me of someone) who enjoys bikepacking (noooope, not me, yet)
Interesting paper arguing against the current cloud-design in favor of stored procedures, for some use cases
Another static site engine, but this time in rust. A single binary file to generate the site. Interesting.