~/logs/October, November 2024
Updated Dec 1, 2024
🧭 October, November 2024 Saturday, Nov 30, 2024
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law ❤️
The Simple Guide to Building and Breaking Habits
Drasi: Microsoft’s change data processing system
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
Comments on Canonical JSON in Matrix
Recommending for Long-Term Member Satisfaction at Netflix
Java 21 Virtual Threads - Dude, Where’s My Lock?
tigerbeetle/docs/TIGER_STYLE.md
Show HN: A website for comparing protein powder prices
Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code
Stengo/DeskPad: A virtual monitor for screen sharing
End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem
Cards Against Humanity Pays You to Give a Shit
Announcing the winners of our semiconductor policy contest!
A Dictionary of Single-Letter Variable Names
Categorizing How Distributed Databases Utilize Consensus Algorithms
Winamp contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL
Why birds do not fall while sleeping
Deal With It GIF emoji generator
Google Testing Blog: SMURF: Beyond the Test Pyramid
SimpleX blog: Wired’s Attack on Privacy
California Coolers, How Cool is this!
EteSync & Etebase Contacts calendars
Hammerspoon macOS system scripting
Peeking into VALORANT’s Netcode
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
ATProto for distributed systems engineers
apache/incubator-resilientdb: Global-Scale Sustainable Blockchain Fabric
essentialkaos/aligo: Utility for checking and viewing Golang struct alignment info
The Case Against California Proposition 36
Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
Model checking safety of Ben-Or’s Byzantine consensus with Apalache
AI Ready Vector Database and Data Analytics Platform
JSON Crack | Transform your data into interactive graphs
hear - macOS speech recognition via the command line
Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent • Robb Knight
DataBreach | Check if your data was compromised
Stengo/DeskPad: A virtual monitor for screen sharing
AI for Real-time Fusion Plasma Behavior Prediction and Manipulation
elikaski/ECC_Attacks: Known attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
pipe - Unix-like pipelines for Go
SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story
Welcome to Crokinole, the greatest game you’ve never heard of.
Physical memory on illumos systems
Why you’re bad at giving feedback
Visualizing 13 million BlueSky users
Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’
Rob the Whole World; Give It Back
NVIDIA/garak: the LLM vulnerability scanner
rudyrucker/chaos: James Gleick’s Chaos: The Software
Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
WORK LOUDER™ keyboards
Random numbers from /dev/urandom in Bash
Elon Musk’s Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process
charmbracelet/sequin: Human-readable ANSI sequences
NuPhy Keyboard
How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?
zkalc cryptography
Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question
Verify the Safety of the Rust Standard Library
A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks
How I configure my Git identities
Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal
pipe: authenticated pubsub over ssh
All Here founder’s arrest shows it’s easy for startups to scam investors
githublog/2024/11/26/getting-an-ip-address.md
Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call
Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Podcast
From Burnout to Breakthrough An Academic’s Quest to Rethink Coding Education - CoRecursive Podcast
The history of Rob ‘CmdrTaco’ Malda - Hacker History Podcast
John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride - Freakonomics
Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Update) - Freakonomics
Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000? - Freakonomics
Why Don’t We Have Better Candidates for President? - Freakonomics
Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What? - Freakonomics
Mini-Stories: Vol 3 – Darknet Diaries
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide / Oxide
Movies & TV
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Books
Misc.
Hanno Ucciso l’Uomo Ragno (Trailer)
Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot (GER) | Pairs Free Skating | PyeongChang 2018
Papadakis Cizeron (FRA) | Pairs Free Skating | PyeongChang 2018
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (CAN) | Pairs Free Skating | PyeongChang 2018