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teaxyz/cli: the unified package manager (brew2) –This is pretty crazy/amazing (to geeks, i guess). I heard a podcast with the author and he convinced me. Looking at the readme, I am confused/impressed. Author: “the unified package manager (brew2). Contribute to teaxyz/cli development by creating an account on GitHub.”
Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale –The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”
palette.fm –A new AI colorizer. Colorize anything from old black and white photos 📸, style your artworks 🎨, or give modern images a fresh look 🌶. It’s as simple as instagram, free, and no sign-up required!
A non-computer-person’s guide to how Mastodon instances work –What to know about how it works before you sign up for it. A lot of good detail for the masto newbie, like me.
Object-Oriented Discrete Event Simulation — with SimPy –Discrete Simulation is a grest alternative for scenarios that are hard or impossibke to solve analytically. Improving a busy emergency department with stochastic discrete event simulation
From speech to insights: The value of the human voice –Live voice contacts are essential for customer experience. In this McKinsey article, we explore how new speech analytics technology is driving lasting results.
Introduction · Linux Inside –An impressive tour the force of linux internals
Tree views in CSS –This is really useful! Its amazing what you csn create and do with CSS – “How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS.”
How Fig improved my ZSH experience (Fig Autocomplete Tutorial Pt. 1) –I am a zsh and oh-my-zsh user. Now I discovered fig. Pretty interesting. But who controls – fig or zsh or oh-my? Here’s a useful article: “Load times are the Achilles’ heel of a well-configured ZSH terminal. We’re going to look at how Fig…”
A Big List of Mastodon Resources –I took a pop at Mastodon several years ago, but it didn’t work. I couldn’t figure out how to make it social, and I didn’t have a good grasp of how the “federated” part…
What does ActivityPub do, no bullshit please. · Issue #1 · scripting/reallySimpleActivityPub –The scenario I have a server that receives twitter-like posts, and twitter-like posts emanate from it. I have users who use my server, so there must be some way to do identity. So it's — i…
Fig –[Pito: They make some very bold promises about this app. Take a look] The next-generation command line.
Thoughts on Python Poetry. Pip is hard enough, how much does… | by Daryan Hanshew | Sep, 2022 | Medium –Indeed how much does it help? For a ruby guy, pip == gem and poetry == bundler
The Walt List.xlsx – Google Sheets –Excellent list of all sorts of people and their Mastodon link
Find A Good Movie To Watch –A different movie recommender, which seems to help me find movies I like which I never heard of.
58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere –A little bit of CSS joy for your web site
The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers Running On The Right Time Zone. (Well, Sort Of) | by Daniel Rosehill | OneZero –Always a great story. People like this should be compensated!
Mastodon – Decentralized social media –Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
Gallery –This is a gallery of all sorts of interesting visualizations you can do with the GraphViz package.