Link Blog
April 2021
strong_password v0.0.7 rubygem hijacked
Interesting description of how a public library or gem can be taken over, and modified to create an all powerful backdoor.
Best Selling Watches on Sale: Top Men's & Women's Watches Online
Looks like a great site for buying cheap watches!
styd/apexcharts.rb
This is an AMAZING collection of graphs. Great to have a ruby binding. Haven’t tried it yet but looks very worth while.
Scripting and automating git processes
This one is pretty eclectic but if you find yourself writing a script in ruby or python or bash and you need to respond in the logic to what's going on in git, then you will find some very useful tips here.
Introducing nushell
Yes, but, do we need another shell? Do we all have to learn Rust? What about a shell framework that will embed any language?
The GVL and C Extensions - a cooperative partnership
very interesting way to embed C in ruby, if you’re into that kind of thing!
CUE
Another very useful text processing tool for text based data files.
WTF :: WTF - the terminal dashboard
A kind of crazy cool dashboard for all kinds of info all in text suitable for display in. Terminal window.
eBay/tsv-utils
This looks super useful if you have very large data sets. The Unix shell is surprisingly fast and able to create parallel flows.
Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine
Really useful tool to find podcasts and episodes. A nice looking podcast search engine.
Drive Selection - Wheels, tracks and more - Robots For Roboticists
A good review of a set of different ways of steering a robot. Different configurations of wheels, tracks, casters, etc
TKJ Electronics » A practical approach to Kalman filter and how to implement it
More about the famous Kalman Filter
Serverless: 15% slower and 8x more expensive
Serverless architecture is the new hotness. It sounds good for the right situations but this article argues that it might not be all that.
How to Calculate a Robot's Forward Kinematics in 5 Easy Steps
A useful bit of mathematics. Claims that calculating this is a vital first step in robotics research