I really like this aesthetic. Now I want to build a little console system based on a display like this.
"It does help if you can absolutely convince yourself that you're destined for greatness," says Barone. "It's not even an ego thing--it's just a way to prevent doubt and insecurity from hindering you."
One-off repairs of parts that can't be easily made with hand-tools and a drill press is one of the best use-cases for 3D printers that I've seen.
An early HTML5 game by Dominic Szablewski.
In this talk Rich Hickey makes a distinction between "simple" and "easy" to justify some oft advanced (if rather anti-OOP) software engineering practices: prefer composition, avoid state, try not to mess up your data by wrapping it in objects.
David Kushner's Masters of Doom is on my reading list, though I'm more interested in the making of Commander Keen than of Wolfenstein and Doom (which I never found very fun).
On the pitfalls of trying to keep secrets out of Python's memory. [Spoiler: there's no good way.]
I feel like I end up reading this once a year, usually when I'm trying to write a [python] script that needs to run from a cron script without clobbering its own files if one instance is started before the previous one is finished.
See also my shelfcache Python3 package which provides a thread- and multiprocess-safe key-value caching store on top of the standard library's shelve module: https://github.com/cristoper/shelfcache
A tip for tightening up knit ribbing: on the transition from knit to purl, purl the first stitch through the back loop and wrap the yarn clockwise.
(Nona gives the same tip in 2004: http://nonaknits.typepad.com/nonaknits/2004/12/a_bit_of_braggi.html)
Tips for using fzf, ripgrep, and bfs for quickly finding files based on their names/contents.
A weblog about simple, useful software.
Hasn't been updated since 27 July 2016. I hope Jack returns at some point.
Some good ansible tips, especially #4-6.
A python script/package I wrote for converting audio wave files to vector graphics.
Someone wrote this tutorial (Japanese) on using my wav2vec python script [1] to create graphics from audio waveforms.
Google's English translation:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-b.uec.tmu.ac.jp%2Fshakuhachi%2FSonicPi%2F%23SoundWaveArt
Ange Albertini with some file polyglot wizardry.
I've spent several weeks diving into the devops world for a project I'm working on. I had originally thought I'd deploy everything -- infrastructure like smtp and nginx reverse proxy as well as custom or replicated apps -- in docker containers, but have found a combination of configuring sever infrastructure with Ansible and using docker only for the apps proper to be a much better approach. This article by Matt Jaynes rings true to my experience so far.
A nicely done tutorial on creating a snake game with a Reactive/Observable style library in JavaScript.
Charles Frye's answers to some of the oral qualifying exam questions at Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute.
Good introduction to testing Ansible roles with Molecule.
Very handy stats to help in choosing which blacklists/whitelists to use in combatting spam.