Wednesday, April 29, 2020

ZFS Best Practices and Caveats

https://bigstep.com/blog/zfs-best-practices-and-caveats
From someone who's been in the trenches with ZFS

ZFS Tutorials : Creating ZFS pools and file systems

https://www.thegeekdiary.com/zfs-tutorials-creating-zfs-pools-and-file-systems/
One of the better ZFS intro tutorials

BlockSCAD

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/
a scratch-like front-end UI for OpenSCAD

The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://www.openscad.org/index.html
Indeed, it's for programmers, but that's ok

Amazon Accidentally Sent Out Their Email Template

https://medium.com/better-marketing/amazon-accidentally-sent-out-their-email-template-33e6ecbc0875
Kinda basic but oft-forgotten lessons. 

Startup failure in Europe – Indepth Analysis

https://stryber.com/truth-about-startup-failure/
At least in Europe an incubator buys almost exactly nothing. 

Conway's lesser-known results

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/357197/conways-lesser-known-results
Some wonderful work by the late great Conway

3 Insane Secret Weapons for Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-3-secret-weapons-that-changed-my-python-editor-forever-c99f7b2e0084
Some real power tools here. 

Open Source Growth Marketing Platform

https://erxes.io/
Looks like they're trying to compete with Marketo or Pardot.  Looks like a lot of nickle and dime add-ons.

Why I use open source technology for web development

https://opensource.com/article/20/4/open-source-web-development
Tools & Techinques from the open stack foundation. 

The Good Guy/Bad Guy Myth

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-good-guy-bad-guy-myth
Old stories had neither

Monday, April 13, 2020

how to batch video files

https://superuser.com/questions/983785/batch-merge-sets-of-video-files

lunibox howtos

https://www.google.com/search?q=lunibox%20how%20to
commercial lumiboxes, short on howtos. 

Cloud & Desktop IDE Platform

https://theia-ide.org/
A browser-based IDE kinda like Eclipse that runs VSCode plugins

Google Dataset Search

https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/

The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/04/how-increase-happiness-according-research/609619/
be connected with modest expectations

Data-driven Astronomy

https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy
would love to take this class. 

Friday, April 3, 2020

Create your own website without writing code using only Google Sheets

https://sheet2site.com/
I'm amazed that this is a thing. For people who only like spreadsheets, I guess. 

Inside the Secretly Lucrative World of Solo Piano Music

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/inside-the-secretly-lucrative-world-of-solo-piano-music
 They're not mega-millionaires, but they're doing well.

Embracing modern image formats

https://joshwcomeau.com/performance/embracing-modern-image-formats/
Better image formats, but not all browsers support all, how to make it work. 

5 Uncommon Habits That Will Make You Happier This Year

https://medium.com/personal-growth/5-uncommon-habits-that-will-make-you-happier-this-year-bb083f4e9bc0
Not the usual suspects

Email digests on things you love

https://mailbrew.com/
We'll see how smart it is. 

Links to all AWS cheat sheets

https://tutorialsdojo.com/links-to-all-aws-cheat-sheets/
links to fairly succinct AWS cheatsheets.