Things I wished more developers knew about databases https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78
Medium
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated…
Career advice for people with bad luck https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/career-advice-for-people-with-bad
chiefofstuff
Career advice for people with bad luck
Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone who’s had a mediocre career? But there’s massive sampling bias. All this advice will try to draw grand, sweeping narratives and also typically…
A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app` https://github.com/then/is-promise/issues/13
GitHub
ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_TARGET · Issue #13 · then/is-promise
The module fails to import with node v13.12.0. The version 2.1.0 still works fine. sorunome@sorunome-desktop repos/mx-puppet-skype $ node ./build/index.js 1 internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:616 if (e...
Debugging Distributed Systems https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2927299.2940294
Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/microservices-back-again/
InfoQ
To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith. At QCon London, Alexandra Noonan told…
Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html
beza1e1.tuxen.de
Software Folklore
a blog post by @azwinkau
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir
ICANN
ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)
After completing extensive due diligence, the ICANN Board found that withholding consent of the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Ethos Capital was reasonable, and the right thing to do.
What would you do if you lost your Google account? https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/losing-google-account/
Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help https://gist.github.com/mGBUfLn9/7cadffcf7c3c23b7376350165a67735f
Gist
history.txt
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/
TechCrunch
No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
You can’t make access to your website’s content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’. Not if you need to be compliant with European data protection law. That’s the unambiguous message from the European…
We Chat, They Watch https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
The Citizen Lab
We Chat, They Watch
WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.
The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019) https://baekdal.com/thoughts/the-original-cookie-specification-from-1997-was-gdpr-compliant/
Baekdal
The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant
Cookies today are doing all kinds of bad things, but did you know that the original creators wanted to stop that?
Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone https://twitchroulette.net/
4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020 https://marctenbosch.com/news/2020/05/siggraph-2020-technical-paper-n-dimensional-rigid-body-dynamics/
Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models https://github.com/yemount/pose-animator/
GitHub
GitHub - yemount/pose-animator
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Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers https://vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers
Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans/
VOLE.wtf
Scunthorpe Sans 🗯🚫 profanity-blocking font
A s*** font that f***ing censors swearing automatically