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- Conspiracy theorists mistake guitar pedal diagram for “5G Chip”, alleging it’s in COVID-19 vaccine | MusicTech
The widely circulated image of the chip is a reworked schematic for the Boss Metal Zone pedal. FB: You can't kill the Metal 🤘
- Developing and Maintaining Gratitude
As I reflect back on 2020, a year that was tough on human civilisation as a whole, I am nevertheless grateful for the many positive experiences of this year.
- Stats are the new analytics
tl;dr: I set up self-hosted Plausible Analytics on this site. You can see it here [https://stats.mattfarrugia.com/share/Be4n5ONmXZa3C495vFOJ2]. This site runs on an instance of Ghost [https://ghost.org…
- Software Leviathans
nsledgianowski
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3 Jan 2021
- The mathematics of human thought
Keith Devlin
The story of George Boole, father of the Boolean logic.
- Fair-Code Automation with n8n.io
David Field
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4 Jan 2021
One of the features I really like is the integration with Rocket Chat and Zapier. While it works really well, its also very expensive (at time of writing) from the free tier to the next one up.
- Get a repo-scoped GitHub Access Token quickly
Today I need an access token for github so that I could commit show transcripts for Syntax via some automated scripts. Has three options…
- Parity Purchasing Power
For the last ~5 years I’ve been offering PPP discounts on my web development courses for developers in countries where their purchasing…
- Shiv - Let’s Build a Version Control System!
Shatterealm
Say you have some source code you'd like to track the changes of, but for some reason, you're banned from using any binary not already on the system, and the only binary available to you is busybox.
- Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers using Facebook Reset Password or WhatsApp
This tutorial is meant to help find clues as to who is calling you when you’re receiving calls from an unknown phone number. FB: side effects of mass data gathering from Facebook
- Code Age vs Time to Recall
Tim White
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1 Jan 2021
A colleague of mine has repeatedly called for some of the controllers in our project to be refactored. He says they’re messy, but what I think he means is that they’re hard to understand.
- Looks vs Results
Greg Kogan
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30 Dec 2020
Making things look nice can take a long time, either due to lack of resources or abundance of opinions. This could delay launches, frustrate people, and waste precious energy. Those are high costs for startups or companies hoping to move fast.