Reading List
- The Internet Needs a New Name
Christopher Butler
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11 Jun 2021
The Internet is a bad name. We could have done much better. The same is true for The Web.
- Containers are tents
Nina Schiff
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27 May 2021
We don’t expect tents to serve the same purpose as brick-and-mortar houses—so why do we expect containers to function like VMs?
- On the Word “Nonce” in Cryptography and the UK
Earlier today, I made a Twitter shitpost that confused a lot of folks from the UK. In the style of the “cats can have little a salami, as a treat” meme. Now, anyone can be forgiven for …
- Does Safari 15 finally fix viewport height?
TL;DR: No, but if you subtract env(safe-area-inset-bottom) from 100vh you'll get what you want.
- Emotional Debt
Today, I came up with a concept which I then discovered already exists: emotional debt. I’ll still write my thoughts on it. Debt, in essence, is an obligation to do something, generally to perform some type of work. In the mainstream, it has come to stand for “money that you have to pay”. But money…
- The most useful math formulas
pkh.me
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9 Jun 2021
These last years, in the context of working on a graphic rendering engine, I've been confronted to many engineering problems involving mathematics: basic geometry, colorimetry, curves, animations, video, etc. In all these situations, I needed at some point to formalize a "space conversion" of some sort.