git-switch Documentation
“NAME git-switch – Switch branches”
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Reading “Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising” by the late Rob Burbea. Something to take in little bites as time allows you to know and not just read it. 😉 https://t.co/h8EacYlWMp
— Kevin Clark (@gonnatryanyways)
Jan 10, 2022
Reading Today
Web3 is Bullshit
“If you read tech journalism you’ll probably hear the fuzzy term web3 bandied about in the press. Sprinkled around all these articles are all manner of idealistic and utopian ideas about how we can rebuild the internet to reflect our aspirations of a more humane and egalitarian society.”
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“WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH ET AL. v. JACKSON, JUDGE, DISTRICT COURT OF TEXAS, 114TH DISTRICT, ET AL. …”
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Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time
“The “gravitational memory effect” predicts that a passing gravitational wave should forever alter the structure of space-time. Physicists have linked the phenomenon to fundamental cosmic symmetries and a potential solution to the black hole information paradox.”
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HIST 119
“Professor David Blight: In a speech before the Virginia Secession Convention, in 1861, in late April, in the wake of the firing on Fort Sumter, the newly elected–sort of appointed–Vice-President of the Confederacy, Alexander H.”
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AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From Amazon CloudFront Per Month
“The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum.”
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Svelte’s lifecycle methods can be used anywhere
“I don’t think it’s widely known that you can call the Svelte lifecycle methods (onMount, onDestroy, beforeUpdate, afterUpdate) outside of a component. It is mentioned in the Svelte docs and tutorial, though it’s easy to gloss over.”
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Choose Boring Technology
“Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this.”
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Western Boom Cities See Spike in Harmful Ozone
“The reduction of harmful ground-level ozone across most of the U.S. over the past several decades has been an air pollution success story.”
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Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> We Should All Have Something To Hide
“Suddenly, it feels like 2000 again. Back then, surveillance programs like Carnivore, Echelon, and Total Information Awareness helped spark a surge in electronic privacy awareness.”
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Visitor Pattern
“The Visitor Pattern isn’t used often. This is because there are few situations in which it is applicable or even makes sense. However, it’s a nice pattern to know and to have in your tool belt when the time comes. Let’s look at how this pattern can be applied in a PHP environment.”
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Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests
“Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source or frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy. As part of my day to day job at Mollie, guarding against data inconsistencies is always top of mind.”
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Trie in Javascript: the Data Structure behind Autocomplete
“We’ve already covered the basics of tree data structure in three posts. If you haven’t gone through those yet, I would strongly going through the introductory post at the very least. Trie is a variation of tree data structure. It’s also referred to as prefix tree or a variation of search tree.”
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Modern Php Cheatsheet
“This document is a cheatsheet for Php you will frequently encounter in modern projects and most contemporary sample code.”
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Installing xdebug for use on remote server
I used instructions found in the PHPStorm docs with the xdebug3 set of code. I’m just going to mention some specifics that aren’t listed in the PHPStorm docs or that I found particularly key. Setting up an SSH tunnel https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/remote-debugging-via-ssh-tunnel.html#set-up-an-ssh-tunnel-to-the-remote-machine This sets up a way for your remote server to talk to your local computer. … Continued
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Our entire solar system may exist inside a giant magnetic tunnel, says astrophysicist
“You and everyone you know live inside a massive magnetic tunnel, according to new research from the University of Toronto.”
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The Law of Leaky Abstractions
“There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP is a way to transmit data that is reliable.”
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Jira Release UI Filters and Table Sorting with Tampermonkey
Tampermonkey is s superscript manager that allows you to write and run javascript code on specific domains/pages/paths. It’s pretty handy to alter a site you use with your niche wants. Here’s the GitHub repo which may get updates sooner than this blog post: https://github.com/thisbailiwick/jira-release-table-filtering-and-sorting Needed https://www.tampermonkey.net/ Installation Add Tampermonkey to whichever browser you use. Here’s … Continued
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A Beginner’s Guide to SvelteKit
“SvelteKit is an officially supported framework, built around Svelte. It adds key features to a Svelte app — such as routing, layouts and server-side rendering — and makes front-end development outrageously simple.”
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