~/logs/December 2020
Updated Feb 11, 2023
🧭 December 2020 Tuesday, Dec 1, 2020
https://blogs.webmd.com/mental-health/20190829/how-to-stop-overthinking-8-tips-from-a-therapist
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/56/ Jordan (Harbinger)
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/79/ Dark Basin
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/43/ PPP
https://datagubbe.se/noconf/ work environment tools
https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3004875/low-latency-java-trading-systems
https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 performance tests framework
https://jon.bo/posts/digital-tools/ organizing brain food
https://raindrop.io/ bookmarks manager
https://callmenish.com/how-to-run-a-tech-ponzi-scheme/
http://spacehey.com MySpace clone
http://insightbrowser.com private (?) browser https://insightbrowser.com/blog/open-web-dying-why-care
https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet self-referential tweet
https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs fast high compression read-only file system
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/jenny-radcliffe-cat-burglar-for-hire/
https://johnste.github.io/finicky/ browser picker
https://browserosaurus.com/ browser picker
https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg tools and frameworks directory
https://windingtree.com/faq decentralized travel platform
https://safing.io/spn/ privacy services
https://enspiral.com/ collaboration tools and community
https://kottke.org/20/10/how-to-protect-yourself-from-the-aerosol-spread-of-covid-19
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/issues/tech-internet-and-cybersecurity
https://www.kaiostech.com/explore/ smartphone OS
http://github.com/monicahq Personal Relationship Manager
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/disclosure3.html
https://www.willpatrick.co.uk/articles/how-to-buy-gifts-that-people-actually-want
https://i.ibb.co/DtxrRH3/eventual-consistency.png
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266288
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201123-the-psychology-behind-revenge-bedtime-procrastination
https://mule.substack.com/p/the-tech-monopolies-go-vertical
https://ourworldindata.org/ Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems
http://nandgame.com/ programming game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25253598 Apple Create ML image classifier
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-01011-0 DMT and neurogenesis
https://stripe.com/treasury banking API
https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/
A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
https://fabiensanglard.net/silicone/
https://coinsutra.com/best-cryptocurrency-index-funds/
https://radicle.xyz/#/beta Ethereum / Git source code collaboration platform
https://teddit.net/ private Reddit frontent
https://divinations.substack.com/p/linkedins-alternate-universe
https://mtlynch.io/collect-debt/
https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/12/this-is-real-thats-not.html
https://www.pixeltrue.com/frontliner-heroes free COVID illustrations
http://jacobzelko.com/workflow/
https://github.com/benwilber/boltstream self-hosted video streaming
https://github.com/mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-grenfell-tower-inquiry-is-uncovering-a-major-corporate-scandal regulations
https://pop.system76.com/ operating system for STEM and creative
http://www.paulgraham.com/ace.html Billionaires Build
https://github.com/oskarsve/ms-teams-rce Microsoft Teams RCE disclosure
https://mtlynch.io/code-review-love/ code reviews
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/ social networks analysis, privacy, surveillance
https://orgmode.org/features.html Emacs markup
https://tray.io/ automation platform
https://adventofcode.com/2020/about coding and logic puzzles
https://github.com/synacor/dtk CLI data analysis and visualization
https://materialize.com/kafka-is-not-a-database/
https://github.com/linkedin/school-of-sre
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
https://joemorrison.medium.com/death-of-an-open-source-business-model-62bc227a7e9b
https://hystoria.100millionbooks.org/ 5-year delayed news
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/users-lightbulb.html
https://commoncog.com/blog/cash-flow-games/ startup finance
https://www.moversandshakas.org/ Hawaii relocation program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome
https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-airbnbs/ startup
https://github.com/facontidavide/PlotJuggler data explorer
https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-first-web-analytics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25365397 cooking recipes search
https://ourworldindata.org/time-with-others-lifetime analysis of time spent with others
https://www.societylibrary.org/ ideas library
https://us-sankey.rcc.uchicago.edu/mobile/ energy production and consumption over time
https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API
https://computer.rip/2020-11-28%20the%20verboten%20band.html radio spectrum
https://alaa.blog/2020/12/how-i-hacked-facebook-part-one/ Facebook security bounties
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415017 Lambda School
https://johnnydecimal.com/ document organization
https://abooklikefoo.com/escape/ book recommendations (to break your bubble)
https://justprivacy.org/google-alternatives/
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-youtube-ban-is-un-american-wrong
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 (WHO/CDC/MIT) https://kottke.org/20/10/how-to-protect-yourself-from-the-aerosol-spread-of-covid-19
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeymoon/
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/8d-how-to-build-a-great-series-a-pitch-and-deck
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/8d-how-to-build-a-great-series-a-pitch-and-deck
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/49-a-guide-to-yc-demo-day-presentations
https://danuker.go.ro/the-grand-unified-theory-of-software-architecture.html Functional Core / Imperative Shell vs. Clean Architecture
https://vlfig.me/posts/microservices
https://www.thegovlab.org/about.html Government & governance
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
https://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
https://github.com/antontarasenko/smq social media datasets, queries, reports
https://pandoc.org/ document converter
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CIqfCIPhtMO/
https://contrastrebellion.com/
Our Universe Has Always Been Decentralized
https://netflixtechblog.com/life-of-a-netflix-partner-engineer-the-case-of-extra-40-ms-b4c2dd27851
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419487 SolarWind hack
https://github.com/ericfischer/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md
https://dangoldin.com/2020/12/11/amazon-owns-more-than-2b-worth-of-ipv4-addresses/
https://www.getfractals.com/ prism lenses
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/apples-anti-tracking-plans-iphone/
https://blog.pixielabs.ai/pixie-new-relic/ observability
https://www.efforce.io/ Steve Wozniak’s renewable energy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25434753 “After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue”
https://sirupsen.com/shitlists/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25422756 “This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life”
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-cleverest-floppy-disc-protection.html
https://betterdev.blog/minimal-safe-bash-script-template/
https://restofworld.org/2020/the-point-hackers/
http://paulgraham.com/earnest.html
https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer sync address book and calendar
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/
https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/AAHWrq360NcGbw Blob opera
https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
https://cognitect.com/blog/2020/12/15/sponsoring-open-source-developers
https://www.shironekolabs.com/posts/superrt/ SNES raytracing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440322 “Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday”
https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky
https://eigenfoo.xyz/tensor-computation-libraries/
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/12/02/bgp-with-andree-toonk
https://your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com/episodes/the-opposite-of-addiction-8StcooN_
https://dailyblockchain.github.io/ bitcoin transaction visualization
https://dyno-might.github.io/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box-fan-air-purifier/
https://dwheeler.com/chess-openings/
https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-enough.html
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/unfck/
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/69/
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/it-took-two-days-to-develop-modernas-vaccine/
https://web.dev/centering-in-css/
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/i-have-resigned-from-the-google-amp-advisory-committee/
https://erik-engheim.medium.com/apple-m1-foreshadows-risc-v-dd63a62b2562
http://evrl.com/devops/cloud/2020/12/18/serverless.html
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/19/change-your-life-sit-down-and-think
https://tedium.co/2020/12/15/altavista-history-digital-dot-com-domain-name
https://instagram-engineering.com/python-at-scale-strict-modules-c0bb9245c834
https://eblong.com/zarf/if.html
https://reason.com/2020/12/17/justin-amash-introduces-bill-to-end-civil-asset-forfeiture-nationwide/
https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/2019/02/06/the-strange-case-of-dr-ho-man-kwok/
https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/morechallengingprojects.html
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
https://www.filfre.net/2020/12/lode-runner/
https://www.brandonsmith.ninja/blog/write-code-not-too-much-mostly-functions
https://dornob.com/mile-long-wooden-xylophone-plays-bach-in-japanese-forest/
CLI / Terminal calendars https://calcurse.org/ http://palcal.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/pimutils/khal https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/ life advice, research
https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-get-their-wish-and-the-hubble-crisis-gets-worse-20201217/ astronomy, physics
https://kaizoku.dev/double-blind-passwords-aka-horcruxing passwords, security
https://vsevolod.net/good-webcams/ DIY, webcam
https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/ computer science, education, online-learning
https://youtube.com/watch?v=smhi6jts97I&feature=share Navalny, social-engineering, conspiracy, politics, Russia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-fT3ICsC-VE/china-wants-hefty-fines-for-viral-video-creators-who-binge-food-and-drinks policy, taxes, nutrition
https://snapdrop.net/ local network web-based file transfer
https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/06/14/youtube-recommendations-toxic-algorithm-google-ai/ youtube recommendations, attention economy
https://restofworld.org/2020/all-the-data-fit-to-sell/ India, dark data economy, privacy
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/jason-silva-origins-of-a-performance-philosopher/ conscience, philosophy, life advice
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-review .ORG registry sale
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-favicon-in-2021-six-files-that-fit-most-needs favicon
https://xkcd.com/2403/ Wrapping Paper, Christmas
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IvY-Abd2FfM&feature=share Deepfake Queen: 2020 Alternative Christmas Message
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A surveillance, privacy
https://www.freepianomethod.com/ education
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a25833/1937-film-perfectly-explains-how-a-car-differential-works/ mechanics, car differential
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/ mRNA vaccine for programmers
https://berthub.eu/amazing-dna/ DNA for programmers
https://www.pushing-pixels.org/fui/ GUIs from movies and TV
https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-interviewing-advice-no-one-shares/ interviewing
https://www.propublica.org/article/she-noticed-200-million-missing-then-she-was-fired California government
https://blog.dave.tf/post/ip-addr-parsing/ IP addres parsing
https://pyrofex.io/ CDelta, Numifex, Casanova blockchain
https://shipchain.io/ blockchain shipping
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/62/
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/81/
https://francescodilorenzo.com/saas-we-pay-for SaaS tools
https://how.complexsystems.fail/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25535403 working at Apple
Matrix 1.0: Decentralized Communication at Scale (Matthew Hodgson, Web3 Summit 2019)