Tried out “Demeo” tonight: a multiplayer adventure board game that you can play in #VR or #AR. It was well done, and fun to see the pieces animate and move! Also easier to learn the rules than for a regular board game as you weren’t able to make an invalid move, and aspects such as the cards were dealt automatically!
This interactive, in-browser representation of different retry approaches by @samwho is just exceptional: https://encore.dev/blog/retries. Brilliant stuff.
How to tell your OSS is ridiculously popular: people aren't 100% sure they didn't embed it, and tack on the software equivalent of "packaged in a facility where peanuts were also present" to the license list.
This watch contains software, so statistically probably contains at least traces of curl.
"Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return."
I have a hard time adopting new command line tools (I'm a little set in my ways!) but I've really been enjoying @atuin (https://atuin.sh) for finding things in my shell history
Fish's default history tools work for me 95% of the time, but Atuin is great for the last 5% when I need to hunt to find 1 complicated command that I ran 6 months ago. It's way nicer than repeatedly running history | grep ... | grep ... until I find what I'm looking for. And it can sync your history if you want!
Oh, it's because I stayed up late trying to figure out why a group of Portuguese real-estate agents are keyword-stuffing company names, and why a guy called Neville has spent 22 years creating hundreds of companies that make him look like a judge.
They should just run the electric grid at 100 Hz for an hour on the last weekend of March and at 25 Hz for two hours on the last weekend of October to save owners of overly complicated kitchen appliances a lot of work twice a year.
What happened with #xz is precisely why I ceased support of serde versions that had pre-compiled binaries included. It doesn't matter how trustworthy someone seems or how long they've been maintaining a project.
I caught flak from a number of people, including one person (in person, and respectfully!) saying that I was "policing the ecosystem". Which...yes, that's the point. Unknown, unverified binaries being executed is unacceptable and dangerous until proven safe, not the other way around.
I knew about bloom filters but at a very high level, this blog post goes into details with interactive graphs and demos, I love it.
Amazing work from @samwho: https://samwho.dev/bloom-filters/
Here's a peek into the sentencing hearing that ended with Sam Bankman-Fried receiving 25 years in prison. I also discuss some of the shock at what is being perceived as a light sentence, and the amount of time SBF is likely to actually serve.
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If for whatever reason you still own a Stadia controller, you have until December this year to unlock it permanently so that it can pair with Bluetooth for any device since Stadia is dead.
Great article from @samwho
about retries, I wish I leaned about how retries can be dangerous with a nice article like this instead of DDoSing the company’s servers of my first job https://encore.dev/blog/retries
It would be harsh to say that requests is a pile of poorly-written attractive nuisances on top of urllib3. But, unfortunately, it wouldn’t be wrong.
Many diligent devs have spent countless work hours trying to unfuck the project over the years, but there’s only so much you can do when:
“After receiving our first security disclosure, I was told that Requests wasn't a serious project but instead one person's art project and thus we shouldn't fix the vulnerability.” https://hachyderm.io/@sigmavirus24/111986425127558764
As a web developer, you can link to USDZ files of virtual objects. Add rel="ar" so that Safari opens the model without navigating away from the page. (Also works on iOS and iPadOS.)
This beauty finally arrived, Ploopy Adept #trackball.
Last year I tested the water with a Ploopy Nano, a fantastic little trackball that easily sat between my split keyboard. The only issue for me was not so much the lack of buttons, but the inability to map keyboard keys together with trackball movement. With a trackpad you can hold ⌘ and swipe to zoom in Figma.
