Saturday, 22. March 12025
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Hacker Laws – Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.

Relevant: The Jargon File.

Betelgeuse.

I sit here at my computer trying to think of words to describe how impressive this image is to me. The best I can do falls so far short of acceptable that I will not even try... The wonder and awe of an image like this is why I love astronomy so very much. Thank you allowing me the pleasure of seeing it.

Relevant: The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – The cosmic roadtrip.

Sync Engines are the Future.

They collapse the database and the server. If your database is smart enough and capable enough, why would you even need a server? Hosted database saves you from the horrors of hosting and lets your data flow freely to the frontend.

I never thought this was possible in practice, but then Roam Research proved me wrong. For the first few years after public release, they didn’t have a single server. Everything was synced to and served from Firebase. Living the dream.

The work is mysterious and important.

Lars Tunbjörk: Kontor.

I contributed a draft about Melody London to the English Wikipedia.

She began her career in 1984 with Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise”, which won awards at Cannes and Sundance. London continued working with Jarmusch on “Down by Law”, “Mystery Train”, and segments of “Coffee and Cigarettes”, employing long cuts to emphasize visual storytelling.

Update: Declined, unsurprisingly.

GNOME Circle.

Applications and libraries extending the GNOME ecosystem.

A Society That Lost Focus.

White-collar work can now be summarised as trying to reply as fast as possible to every single email until calling it a day and starting again in the morning, a process which essentially prevents any deep thinking (…)

Dear Beautiful Beloved

Donald Vader’s USA is not rooting for the underdog, anymore. They embrace being The Empire they have been all along.

Relevant: The other Steve is not having it #bullying

Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing.

(…) real psychological safety isn’t about avoiding conflict. It’s about creating an environment where challenging ideas makes the team stronger, not weaker.

Thursday, 13. March 12025
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OffSec’s Exploit Database Archive.

Google Dorks.