Brent's Bookmarks

Sunday, July 30, 2023

How to Do Great Work

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 http://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html Long-form, old-school piece, but still great advice. 

Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

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 https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software Amen! One of the previous engineers where I once worked had spent lo...

There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes

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 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crooks-are-stealing-cars-using-previously-unknown-keyless-can-injection-attacks/ Sca...

The Extraordinary Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives

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 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-extraordinary-ways-rhythm-shapes-our-lives/ Like I've said since college "everything resona...
Friday, July 14, 2023

The modern way of serving images

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 https://kurtextrem.de/posts/modern-way-of-img Making images truly responsive is hard. Here's the current thinking on the subject. 

Linear Algebra

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 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/pages/syllabus/ Apparently one of the standout open courses from MIT. Linear A...

Librarian is a static site generator inspired by Hugo and built in PHP

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 https://librarianphp.dev/ Yeah, I know. Why not just use Hugo? For all us PHP heads out there. 

Crafting Songs with ChatGPT and Sonic Pi: A Creative Collaboration

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 https://dev.to/philipjohnbasile/crafting-songs-with-chatgpt-and-sonic-pi-a-creative-collaboration-4p3d Let's face it, almost all the pu...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?

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 https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/superhuman-what-can-ai-do-in-30-minutes Tour-de-force of what AI can help with in a half hour in business ...

Top Small-Business Podcasts: 27 Picks

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 https://blog.hubspot.com/the-hustle/best-entrepreneur-podcasts Some of the usual suspects, (Duct Tape Marketing, etc) but some new faces as...

How to host your side-projects for free in 2023: from Auth to Database

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 https://dev.to/livecycle/how-to-host-your-side-projects-for-free-in-2023-from-auth-to-database-42im A couple of these I hadn't heard of...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

PyBroker Algorithmic Trading in Python with Machine Learning

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 https://www.pybroker.com/en/latest/index.html Don't see any bank statements as proof, but still interesting

Visualizing Home Heating Sources

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 https://datainnovation.org/2023/03/visualizing-home-heating-sources/ Who knew propane was so big in the upper plains?

16 little UI design rules that make a big impact

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https://www.adhamdannaway.com/blog/ui-design/16-ui-design-rules  Nice little case study on applying basic design principles. 

The labor shortage is pushing American colleges into crisis, with the plunge in enrollment the worst ever recorded

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 https://fortune.com/2023/03/09/american-skipping-college-huge-numbers-pandemic-turned-them-off-education/ But with the demographic cliff co...

A Dismal Guide to AWS Billing

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 https://carlos.bueno.org/2023/03/aws-dismal-guide.html The title says it all. There are some 3rd party tools, but the native tools suck. 
Friday, March 10, 2023

More than half of Republicans support Christian nationalism, according to a new survey

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 https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156642544/more-than-half-of-republicans-support-christian-nationalism-according-to-a-new-s Just a reminder:...

Documents Show Gas Industry Knew Gas Stoves Were a Problem Over 50 Years Ago

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 https://factkeepers.com/documents-show-gas-industry-knew-gas-stoves-were-a-problem-over-50-years-ago/ Another case of "they knew"
Thursday, March 9, 2023

Softr vs Glide: Which Is the Best Low-Code Platform?

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 https://blog.lowcode.agency/softr-vs-glide-which-is-the-best-low-code-platform/ A good comparison of two leading platforms. tl;dr: in most ...

Which web frontend architecture fits best?

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 https://www.workingsoftware.dev/frontend-rendering-techniques/ Good comparison of front-end web architectures, but leaves any conclusion to...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Drive growth with newsletter sponsorships at scale.

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 https://www.swapstack.co/ matching newsletter publishers and advertisers
Friday, March 3, 2023

Email Groups. Supercharged. The most advanced email groups service. A complete collaboration suite. Mobile ready. No ads, no tracking.

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https://groups.io/  yes, email groups are still a thing. 

Streamlit vs. Dash vs. Shiny vs. Voila vs. Flask vs. Jupyter

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 https://www.datarevenue.com/en-blog/data-dashboarding-streamlit-vs-dash-vs-shiny-vs-voila Good compare of various dashboarding data systems...
Monday, February 6, 2023

Tag Systems

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 https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/tag-systems A taxonomy of various tagging schemes from hashtag, to tag=value to hierarchies. 
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Welcome to Ctfreak! A centralized task scheduler

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 https://ctfreak.com/ Maybe a lighter alternative to Rundeck? 

A faster way to build and share data apps

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 https://streamlit.io/ Open source python library for data visualizations and dashboards. Look more flexible than Tableau or Power BI

Machine Learning Simplified: A gentle introduction to supervised learning

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 https://themlsbook.com/read Free (as in beer, for a while anyway) book about machine learning. 

A feature-rich Python framework for backtesting and trading

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 https://www.backtrader.com/ How is this dataset open? 
Thursday, January 26, 2023

A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt

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 https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/a-framework-for-prioritizing-tech-debt Applying the concept of interest to tech debt and seeing whe...

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened

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 https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day The many payoffs of paying down tech debt. 
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