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“Design in Practice” by Rich Hickey
A Revolution in Thought? – Dr Iain McGilchrist
I enjoy hearing from Iain McGilchrist. I do believe he is truly wise.
AI unmasked
Pain killers
Full set!
Naming Schemes
A friend on IRC referred me to this today: https://namingschemes.com/. It’s various lists of nouns in a theme which you can use for naming computers and such.
New Book Teardown #1: The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition (2015) | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Silly Job Title: Charge Charmer
This video is part of the New Book feature of my video blog.
In this video I review the venerable The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition by Paul Horowitz by Winfield Hill published in 2015. This monstrous tome includes some 1,220 pages.
This is a long video, because this is a long book!
While I was writing up these notes for the video I found a wealth of fun stuff. Here are a few links:
- AoE lands in Australia
- Bad Circuits
- Lebowski [PDF]
- Adafruit Interview with Paul
- About the authors
- The Art Of Electronics 3rd Ed (at archive.org)
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ViewVC Security Issue History
Today I found myself reading the Security Issue History from the ViewVC project. I thought it was instructive to see what actual (known) vulnerabilities looked like for a small software project over a twenty year period.
Setting query timeout for MySQL or MariaDB
I happened upon the selectSQLText function in the MediaWiki source code and learned how to set a query timeout in either MySQL or MariaDB. Good to know!
Dependency Injection in MediaWiki
Today I read the documentation for how Dependency Injection is done in MediaWiki.
I had a few small nits to pick (such as their statement that services should be stateless) but… fair enough.
For myself I don’t usually use Dependency Injection and a Service Container, instead I prefer the Service Locator pattern which I find is simpler and more economical to use, especially in PHP where there is a single process per request.