10 years ago… A pity this did not gain momentum.
NetAffair: European Networking Paradigms.
(Still, ed.) few people realise that the original voices from these early days of inter-networking are still around.
Safer, Not Later: How “Move Fast and Break Things” ruined the world by escaping the context that it was intended for.
In the decade since it has been retired as Facebook’s official motto, it has been used to defend some truly horrific abuses within the tech industry. You only need to visit the orange website to see it still being used this way.
I once built and maintained a CA with Helma and OpenSSL.
Filling in the Gaps: HTTPS/TLS Certificates.
The goal here is to show how certs work at the most basic conceptual level, without straying too far into RFCs and X.509 and what have you.
Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down.
Stacking transforms how large features get built by having developers split their work into multiple small, interconnected pull requests. Instead of one massive PR, they create a stack of focused changes that build on each other.
The weird world of shark eggs.
It’s likely that you’ve stumbled across a shark egg before, but you may not realise how diverse the colours and shapes really are.
Barliman: Prototype smart text editor.
Given a set of tests for some function foo, Barliman tries to "guess" how to fill in an partially-specified definition of foo to make all of the tests pass.
SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite (via sqlsync.dev).
The best way to get a feel for how SQLSync behaves is to play with the Todo list demo. Clicking this link will create a unique to-do list and redirect you to its unique URL. You can then share that URL with friends or open it on multiple devices (or browsers) to see the power of offline-first collaborative SQLite.
Glicol – Next-generation computer music language (via github.com).
make music with code. connect different nodes like a synth, sequencer or sampler.
Garden Dog Barbecue! One Percent!!
Relevant: Café Malipop where I went last week and heard my first GoGo Penguin song (“Strid”).