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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.
Magic css library to make your stuff look as good as Tufte
Linked article is promising. Somehow Tufte’s book and opinions have become dogma among the technirati. Nothing against him but is the “Napoleon chart” the only example to admire? I’ve seen wall hangings, T-shirts, stickers and whole web sites admiring that one chart!
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Linked article makes a pretty depressing claim. Some bias in my brain immediately went to look for evidence that the paper was. It credible… who wrote it, are they scientists, how big was the sample size, etc. Funny how I didn’t like the claim, and instead of believing it I looked for ways to…
A visual introduction to big O notation.
Linked is a BEAUTIFUL and instructive explanation of the basics of so-called Big-O notation
I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are…
Linked is an outstanding summary of system design. It could be a book or a course! Of course good because I agree with just about every view and recommendation.
Like the pdp-10 had
Linked is an interesting hypothetical article that has both technical and historical contrxt.
Just with a pencil and paper
Linked article covers something that’s always been a matter of some amusing fascination for me. Which is how QR codes work, and how there are apparently variations in the basic look which continue working with the same algorithms.
How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories
Linked is a madman’s tour of git’s persistent data structures. Yes, crazy, but pretty amazing. They use not-simple shall commands to create all the bits by hand. If you follow along you will know more than any of your friends how git work#!
An image for the Raspberry Pi 4 with ROS 2 and Linux RT preinstalled - ros-realtime/ros-realtime-rpi4-image
Linked is an important announcement of a Real Time emailed Ubuntu Image for Ros Jazzy. I haven't tried it myself but will, soon!
Midnight Commander Development Center
I always loved Norton Commander back in the old days before guis! I have to try this on my Ubuntu system, or other character based environments.
Learn professional robotics basics hands-on by building a little Arduino and ROS2 -compatible robot. Maker's Pet Mini robot consists of a 120mm round base, two N20 motors (differential drive), a 360° scanning 2D LiDAR distance sensor, a motor driver board and an ESP32 development board. The Mini robot comes with step-by-step "from-scratch" assembly, setup, bring-up, operation instruction videos
Linked is a very nice beginner ROS2 robot. Amazingly inexpensive. 1/4 the price of a turtlebot. I am ordering one to see how it is!
How to think about the work
Linked is a touching and insightful letter from the great Richard Feynman to a student and colleague.
Best stuff as recommended by cool tools mailing lists
Linked is just a handy list of fun unique doodads.
Application for creating 3D printable terrain models
Linked is a handy (specialized) tool for making 3d models from Map terrain. If you don't need it you don't need it!
I have met a lot of developers in my life.
Late…
Linked is a fun article, mostly because I agree with just about all the points made!
Just a small tool to help me (and you but without any guaranty) to create command alias and sub-aliases (multi word alias) - adoy/cmdalias
Linked is not a recommendation - as I have not tried it. But I've been typing lots of repetitive commands the last few days and I got to thinking that having a way to have aliases which were more than a single word would make them easier to remember and more flexible. This is one that I found
Run local LLMs inside your browser. Contribute to sauravpanda/BrowserAI development by creating an account on GitHub.
This could be important. Linked is a tool that allows you to run an LLM locally in your browser. Why is that interesting? After all you can already run it locally, just on your laptop. I think, if this thing works, one can provide LLM features as part of a SaS app, while guaranteeing your users…
Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin
Linked is a linux-friendly command history editor. I needed one and I grabbed the first one I saw. But I am feeling like it's too heavy weight.
Welcome to PyViz! The PyViz.org website is an open platform for helping users decide on the best open-source (OSS) Python data visualization tools for their purposes, with links, overviews, comparisons, and examples.
Linked is a big ole catalog of all the different visualization tools, packages and frameworks in python. Handy resource if you are experiencing analysis paralysis!
Music programming in the browser
Linked is a tool for writing electronic sounding music 5hrough a cryptic language, right in the browser. It reminds me of SonicPi except with a far worse syntax. But it runs in the browser which is pretty cool!