Thea's work is immaculate, and always an interesting read. Her synthesizer modules use FR4 PCBs as the front panels as well, a technique that's pretty popular but executed so well it's beautiful. [1] Even her documentation is made with care; when I have more disposable to spend I'm definitely buying a module.
It's a very cute box, and I particularly enjoy that this small blog reflects a microcosm of development, fixing bugs for a product, and making it usable for a "customer". That said, games for the author's child remind me of the MIDI Fighter 64 as used by Shawn Wasabi [0], which while a MIDI controller, has reactive patterns to button-presses while being used to play music.
In the same area, both my hometown and the district I attended had 1:1 Chromebook policies. They also had Orwelian programs to allow teachers to see what was on student's screens (!) and later a list of recently closed tabs (!!).
If you're thinking about FIRST Robotics Competition, then yep that's nail-on-head about what they do. I briefly talked to one of the folks responsible for that system and they mentioned looking into using a CDN, but couldn't match the relatively low cost of serving a static file over HTTP elsewhere. That being said, the traffic is still enough to tank that entire Azure region last time I checked during the release window (other assets on the same host / their other hosts in the same region were incredibly slow to load.)
I thought Linus Torvalds was almost wholly responsible for the initial development of git? Even so, everything, especially software, is easier in hindsight....
Several years ago during the MTGox collapse, /r/bitcoin over on reddit had a suicide hotline pinned to the top as multiple evangelicals had sunken their life savings into BTC. It's going to be a very difficult situation if / when BTC crashes again, and it won't end well for just about anyone.
I very much find myself agreeing with the items on this list. However, I think it can be expanded to anything that's the "opposite" of programming.
Hands-on projects that are as far away physically and mentally from programming are amongst the most relaxing in my experience. I enjoy writing personally, especially on pen and paper. The total cognitive disconnect for me between writing on a computer and on paper makes it a wholly more enjoyable experience. Along the same vein is working on bicycles, anything with hand-tools.
Though I find the sentiment appreciable, how the author persevered, goes to show that good backups always are always needed. Backups are only backups if you test them...
Just reading the story now, but I can confirm that college radio stations (and in general radio stations) are build to run and then be forgotten. My campus still uses a rather old copy of Simian which relies not only on IPv4, but filepaths shorter than 255 characters.
Though the site is visually appealing, I fail to understand why nearly 550kB of JS is needed (548kB to be specific). A site like this could get away rather well with just using on-hover and some elegant links.
Overall a decent idea, but it's not one that needs to be this complicated. I feel as if designing a better "classics" landing for the Project Gutenberg might be a better idea. [0]
My biggest point of contention with this is... what should replace it? PGP is the current and retroactive psuedo-standard for verification for everything from email to code to builds.
Any replacement would have to be at least semi-compatible, so as not to break the (likely) hundreds of solutions relying on and expecting PGP.
A cursory Google search suggests you could use a package like poppler to convert the pdf to raw text, and then in theory use regex to create data your server could use and serve.
If the pdfs are published as scans like so many municipalities do, then OCR is the only way to go.
Precisely. Though I've never been to one personally (as a man), the women I know who have attended their events seem to benefit from it, as have the few men I know who have. The name may be "Girls Who Code", but the Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts aren't just boys and girls respectively.
[1] - https://twitter.com/micktwomey/status/1383527521744867338/ph...