Chukwuemeka Nelson Nwauche
“tl;dr two portable SSDs, synced with rsync; and a Backblaze bucket synced with restic”
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In this article, the author talks about his setup for backing up his laptop data. It's a quick read but the info is valuable. Everyone should have some sort of backup off their data because...
Read more...“Is this the right way to approach the uncertainty of a new system? It's enormously difficult to elicit the right logical boundaries in the beginning. The key is to make decisions as late as you can responsibly wait, because that is when you have the most information on which to base the...
Read more...“At the right, the ticket appears to have golden smart-card contacts, like a credit card with an EMV chip. However, those contacts are completely fake, just printed onto the card with ink, and there is no chip there. Presumably, the makers thought that making the card look like a smart card would...
Read more...“Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPSes) are used by modern mobile devices to learn their position using nearby Wi-Fi access points as landmarks. In this work, we show that Apple's WPS can be abused to create a privacy threat on a global scale. We present an attack that allows an unprivileged...
Read more...From the title, your first question is probably why?
Well, let me tell you why...
I'm building an app called mulVid. It's a Collaborative Video Production and Asset Managment Suite but more importantly it's completely web-based. Anyone who knows anything about video internals will tell you that...
Read more...Article - https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
I came for the information on Lisp and stayed for the discussion on language design. Language design has always fascinated me because at one point or the other over the last few years I’ve used every major language either...
Article - https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period
As a card carrying member of "Team Open Source", I'll readily admit that modern email is by far the best (and maybe the only) example of "walled gardens" being a net benefit to the internet.
This blog post is another...
Article - https://github.com/ohbarye/pbt
Having written thousands of unit tests, I can confidently say this has a lot of alpha.
With traditional unit tests, there will always be edge-cases that are not immediately (or vaguely) obvious and so won't be considered but with PBT that isn't a...
“A glance at Thorpe’s activities as an editor and translator (a full overview is provided below) shows an admirable range: from poems to law texts, psalms, chronicles and homilies. Thorpe also strikes as a humble man. His humility, as well as his intended purpose for most of his books, are made...
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You need to have working knowledge of the language(s) the software is written in and it's dev/deployment ecosystem. E.g. if you're dealing with a Python project,you should know what a requirements.txt file is.
You have no business dissecting a project if you can't even program in the...
Read more...“This post will be about some source-level techniques for speeding up C++ compilation, and their (dis)advantages. It will not talk about things external to C++, such as buying better hardware, using a better build system, or using smarter...
Read more...“Now, in a world where AI is replacing programmers by the minute, taking their jobs and revolutionizing the way we think about code, maybe we should be more open to the thoughts of the fresh new blood of the industry? In fact, the above code is a perfect example of a time-memory tradeoff. You’re...
Read more...“Major system issues that affect the reliability of our services are detected and mitigated quickly. However, there are several minor issues that take a longer time to detect and mitigate. Such minor issues can collectively result in poor user experiences and revenue loss over time. This is where...
Read more...“As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.”
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Read more...“Knuth used a technique of Ralph Gomory published the same year, which he somehow became aware of despite the absence of email, the web, Arxiv, or large language models.”
Article 1 - https://nathanbrixius.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/don-knuths-mip-64-years-later/
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“So, you are probably that kind of developer. You know, the kind that just has to have “localhost” served up with SSL. Even though you know that you’re the CA, and you signed this SSL certificate yourself, and you tweaked your browser and API client settings to accept the certificate. But still,...
Read more...“A lot of new CSS features have shipped in the last years, but actual usage is still low. While there are many different reasons for the slow adoption, I think one of the biggest barriers are our own brains.”
“My preferred way of learning new techniques like that is by tinkering with stuff in...
Read more...“MBPC (Margin, Border, Padding, Content)”
Article - https://www.saturdayfrontend.com/p/css-makes-sense-understanding-this
A short article about HTML elements from the view of CSS. The author discusses the essential components (MPBC) to keep in mind when styling HTML elements which...
“The absence of a centralized, up-to-date repository for the specification complicates matters. While some clarifications and consensus have been reached within the generic-abi group, accessing the latest, definitive text remains a challenge.”
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Read more...“Looking at fundamentals, you build your mental model on the truth rather than on hypotheses constructed from evidence gathered while experimenting with the API. This truer model gives you a better understanding of what Git has done, what it is doing, and what it will do.”
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