Parametric gridfinity generator. Generate custom gridfinity bins and baseplates, openGrid components, multiboard, and honeycomb storage wall then download the STL or place an order to purchase.
Linked is Gridfinity Generator. It's one of several tools to generate a large variety of compatible and interoperating containers. Very slick.
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Linked is an excellent rundown of detailed specs of Lenovo T480 laptops. Refurbed versions of these are a very popular inexpensive linux platform. But you really need to know how to read the specs and this guide helps with that.
Richard Feynman
I think Richard Feynman coined the term “cargo cult” in the 70’s! More important is his description of the scientific process, and his high standard and description of integrity in doing science. Computer Scientists, does your research achieve Feynman’s standard?
A new way to publish a book to the web
Attached is an elegant new product (at least its prerelease documentation) to “publish a book” to the web. I believe it will be a single license software product that you get to deploy to a server, including a cloud server. There are of course numerous ways of doing this but 37signals.com’s stuff…
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…
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Quick glance at this site gives me the impression that this is a plausible alternative Wikipedia for less exhaustive explanations for how stuff works.
Analyze how a Git repo grows over time.
Look at this interesting graph showing code “survival” over time. It reflects an almost too “textbook” pattern, with older code getting refactored out of existence. The chart comes from the tool linked here.
Udev is the device manager for the Linux kernel. Udev dynamically creates or removes device node files at boot time in the /dev directory for all types...
Udev Rules are a nightmare. Usually you don't have to deal with them but if you do, prepare to go deep into bit snd byte land. I have various guides here to help.
This article reviews the core principles underpinning the global navigation satellite system (GNSS). It references some of the key terminology, outlines the main potential sources of error, and describes how the application of RTK DGPS techniques can mitigate these errors to a large extent.
A super comprehensive introduction to GPS, with more detail than I have seen elsewhere. Also based on the second paragraph it seems to be quite up to date (2023)
Usually when people say that a topic is confusing when I think it’s not, the reason is that there’s actually some hidden complexity that I wasn’t considering. And after some follow up conversations, it turned out that HEAD actually was a bit more complicated than I’d appreciated!
Julia Evans continues with her tour the force in depth explainers about how git actually works.
There are never too many explanations of this. I am still not 100% clear.
Really good instructions for packaging Python packages.
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Web site for finding and being a tutor
For those of you learning C or C++, this article is a great and detailed tutorial. Also useful if you are studying operating systems.
Non technical, but i love sketching and drawing to pass the time. Author says: “Practice drawing little houses and towers. Then level them up with dimensional views and clusters that create different styles of towns and cities…”
Last week I published a story for The Washington Post that required an interactive slippy map. Lookup maps like this are a common pattern to show a geographic trend and let readers explore the data …
Another guide to help you figure out how to use IFTTT to post on Mastodon. I am still tweaking this.
A very interesting concept and scenario that affects scale in surprising ways. In the category of everything old is nee again, this was identified and named back in the 1970’s!
I hope you know GraphViz. It's a wonderful simple tool for creating diagrams. An interface as well as documentation to the GraphViz program and DSL
A very popular way to create free documentation web sites. I haven't looked at it much. I use gitbook. I was wondering what the difference is, and I don't see much