Some great links for 06/16/2019
I thought I wanted to learn golang, now I am not so sure…
tags: golang critique complaints
A deceptively chatty but still very dense and technical tour through the history of internet protocols. I got through 3/4 of it before getting lost. Very good.
tags: internet networking tcpip technical
We never get enough of cli “best of” lists!
Some great links for 06/14/2019
Really nice summary of using ruby for scripting.
Some great links for 05/27/2019
Excellent article outlining the case for and against using ROS.
Some great links for 05/22/2019
An amazing graphing and plotting web site
tags: plotting charting visuals visualization
Some great links for 05/20/2019
Flex box is a newish css feature that is subtle but very useful. Of course, all of css is subtle!
tags: nav tricks flexbox howto css tips
Title says it all. Some surprising Tricks with CSS.
Some great links for 05/17/2019
Interesting account of all the ways that SQL sucks and of course a proposed fix!
A really fun project! I wonder if this could be for an independent study?
tags: gazebo ROS balance model robotics
A very useful list of depth cameras.
tags: camera depthcamera robotics
Some suggested best practices when designing URLs for REST apis
tags: rest api design best practices
Some obscure fun facts about Unix time
tags: programmers unix esoterica time
Some great links for 05/16/2019
A great analysis of this terrible example of the impact of bugs
tags: software 737 bugs testing airplane warstories quality
This article answers a question that I get frequently from my students.
Some great links for 05/10/2019
Good introduction to Cloud Computing and Machine Learning
tags: elasticity scalability machinelearning
Another crazy useful tool for programmers.
tags: utilities search tips cli file
If you’re getting a web api to work, this seems like a great alternative,
tags: cli utilities http web tools Rest
Some good pointers in here!
tags: tips utilities tools productivity cli
Some great links for 05/07/2019
Pretty cool way to instrument rails code. Not sure how performant it is though.
tags: rails instrumentation monitoring
Some great links for 05/06/2019
Useful gem to have in your toolbox.
Another nice trip through upgrades to Rails for 6.0