Reading List
- We can do better than Signal
icyphox
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17 Jan 2021
Centralized silos are never the solution
- Are We Really Engineers?
Hillel Wayne
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18 Jan 2021
I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.
- That XOR Trick
Florian Hartmann
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15 Mar 2020
There are a whole bunch of popular interview questions that can be solved in one of two ways: Either using common data structures and algorithms in a sensible manner, or by using some properties of XOR in a seemingly hard to understand way.
- The Embedded YouTube Player Told Me What You Were Watching (and more)
2019, October 11, 00:16: I finish the cold frozen pizza that I made hours before but forgot to eat, finally write the report, press submit on the Google security bug submission form, and see the classic, Thanks! We received your report. message. That feeling is hard to beat.
- Github Stale Bots: A False Economy
Ben Winding
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18 Jan 2021
Stale Bot’s are a type of automated bot on Github, which locks issues which are “stale” (as in have no recent activity). This seems like a helpful tool at first, but in reality it’s terrible for all parties.
- Build a Simple FLIP Animation in React
Travis Arnold
The FLIP technique allows for declarative and performant animations. In this article, we will look at a simple way to implement this method using React.
- Tidy TypeScript: Name your generics
TypeScript’s generics are arguably one of the most powerful features of the language. They open a door to TypeScript’s own meta-programming language, which allows for a very flexible and dynamic generation of types.
- Consistency beats quality
Do anything consistently for a long time (meaning multiple years), and you’ll be good at it.
- That’s not how 2FA works
Another day, another high-profile website cloned to phish credentials. In the replies, you’ll see lots of techbros saying “this is why you should switch on 2FA people!!!” Except, and I hate to bring accuracy to a technical discussion, that’s not how 2FA works!