Episodes.fm
Link: Episodes.fm: "Help listeners follow your show wherever they get their podcasts."
Attached is a really useful tool. Episodes.fm simply searches “all” podcasts, like a google for podcasts. It is really fast!
Ruby: a great language for shell scripts!
Link: Ruby: a great language for shell scripts!: "It’s more than rails!"
I agree. But you know what I really want? A bash code generator. I want to have a tool that lets me create vanilla bash scripts from a higher level language. I’ve come to the conclusion that vanilla bash is in the end the cross platform lingua franca for all kinds of sysadmin type chores and that there’s an art to writing complicated shell scripts. They work great with prompting, defaults, error handling and recovery. But they are a real pain to write, and that they turn out long and complicated and obscure. To paraphrase Philippe Kahn (there’s a really old callout) bash is a write-only language!
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My thoughts on Python in Excel
Link: My thoughts on Python in Excel: "An in-depth review of Microsoft's new Python in Excel functionality"
The attached article severely dings the “python in excel” feature that was announced to great fanfare about a year ago. For me the headline is that Python in Excel is NOT a replacement for VBA. Rather it’s better to think of it as a replacement for the excel formula language.
Ruff: A Modern Python Linter for Error-Free and Maintainable Code – Real Python
Link: Ruff: A Modern Python Linter for Error-Free and Maintainable Code – Real Python: "Ruff is an extremely fast, modern linter with a simple interface, making it straightforward to use. It also aims to be a drop-in replacement for other linting and formatting tools, like Pylint, isort, and Black. It's no surprise it's quickly becoming one of the most popular Python linters."
The linked article goes in depth about ruff. Everyone loves ruff. Ruff is written in rust. Everyone loves rust. I think that last part is weird. Rust is a cool and interesting language but it is also pretty low level. Sure, for the user, rust programs tend to be very fast. But for the programmer, it’s more work and harder than… pick your language - python, ruby, java, swift… I mean why aren’t we all asking for programs written in c or assembly even? Anyway, I digress.
✂Templatemaker
Link: ✂Templatemaker: ""
Attached is a handy site for creating templates for boxes and other containers. There are numerous of these. But this one is pretty nicely done.
Better Know A Ruby Thing: On The Use of Private Methods – Noel Rappin Writes Here
Link: Better Know A Ruby Thing: On The Use of Private Methods – Noel Rappin Writes Here: "Ruby: Make all methods public"
The attached article takes a fairly contrarian view, basically advocating that all ruby methods should be public unless they have side effects. I can't say I agree with this, but his analysis is a good read and has some good insights.
GitHub - akshetP/robotics-resources: A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists.
Link: GitHub - akshetP/robotics-resources: A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists.: "A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists. - akshetP/robotics-resources"
Attached another huge collection of resources relating to robotics. There are some other libraries like this. This makes it difficult when you are searching for one thing or another. Still I thought I would include this here because this is a goldmine!
Department of Justice versus The Future
Link: Department of Justice versus The Future: "If our government is concerned about protecting and enhancing competitive behavior, why has it chosen to sue Apple for choosing to do everything for its customers?"
Attached is an insightful article showing the craziness of the government using apple messenger as the basis for going after apple for anticompetitive behavior. Put in historical context, it makes no sense!
Explain that stuff! Science and technology made simple
Link: Explain that stuff! Science and technology made simple: "We make science and technology easy to understand."
Quick glance at this site gives me the impression that this is a plausible alternative Wikipedia for less exhaustive explanations for how stuff works.
How to Do Great Work
Link: How to Do Great Work: ""
The attached essay by Paul Graham gives his views on how someone can think about finding the right project to work on. Not a job but work that is their own. I love this quote: “What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for”. I’m personally familiar with “a degree that would bore most other people”.