Month: April 2020 | Damian Mąsior

Most popular stories from last week [2020-04-19 – 2020-04-26].

Ask HN: I’m a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980

Shirt Without Stripes

https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015

Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements on Its Customers’ Websites

https://mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-its-customers/

Career advice for people with bad luck

https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/career-advice-for-people-with-bad

Things I wished more developers knew about databases

https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78

Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-domain-surge/

If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/363933/182292

Seinfeld Adventure

https://www.seinfeldgame.com/

98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52388586

When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/when-in-doubt-hang-up-look-up-call-back/

Valve’s Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

https://boilingsteam.com/proton-brought-about-6000-games-to-linux-so-far/

Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Soviet-mathematics-physics-textbooks-so-insanely-hardcore-in-comparison-to-US-textbooks/answer/Scott-Miller-307?share=1

A Third Solution

https://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-third-solution.html

In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prisons-testing-in/in-four-u-s-state-prisons-nearly-3300-inmates-test-positive-for-coronavirus-96-without-symptoms-idUSKCN2270RX

Oil plunges below $5 with traders fleeing expiring contract

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/oil-drops-to-18-year-low-on-global-demand-crunch-storage-woes

Agile’s early evangelists wouldn’t mind watching Agile die

https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/lean-agile-methodology-software-engineering

Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-20-04/

Time is the only real currency we have

https://blog.theboringtech.io/2020/04/16/time_is_the_real_currency.html

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming/

Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/magic-leap-announces-layoffs-amid-covid-19-slowdown/

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes

A possible new back end for Rust

https://jason-williams.co.uk/a-possible-new-backend-for-rust

Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5

https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/build-a-real-time-twitter-clone-in-15-minutes-with-live-view-and-phoenix-1-5

Ask HN: I’m a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

Shirt Without Stripes

Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements on Its Customers’ Websites

Career advice for people with bad luck

Things I wished more developers knew about databases

Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

Seinfeld Adventure

98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back

Valve’s Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

A Third Solution

In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

Oil plunges below $5 with traders fleeing expiring contract

Agile’s early evangelists wouldn’t mind watching Agile die

Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

Time is the only real currency we have

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

A possible new back end for Rust

Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5

Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in

The Decline of Usability

Learning to See in the Dark (2018)

TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

Is BGP Safe Yet?

I’ve been writing TILs for 5 years

Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

U.S. judge blocks Twitter’s bid to reveal government surveillance requests

X410 – X Server for Windows 10

Scuttlebot: Peer-to-peer database, identity provider, and messaging system

Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)

A Taste of GPU Compute

iPhone 7 boots postmarketOS

A Guide to Pricing Plans

Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]

We’ve Built Cities We Can’t Afford

Show HN: Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness (TestFlight)

Covid-19’s impact on Tor

Toshiba, Seagate Shipping Slower SMR Drives Without Disclosure, Too