Today I discovered Parallax. The company presumably named after the phenomenon.
Category Archives: Chatter
Disable Siri in MacBook Pro touchbar
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Customise Control Strip: then drag Siri button off touchbar.
Advice
Some professional advice via r/programming today: My Personal Creed of Employment and All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people.
The puzzle of motivation by Dan Pink
An old TED Talk: The puzzle of motivation:
- Autonomy
- Mastery
- Purpose
Alda for music programming
Alda is a text-based programming language for music composition. Interesting!
Voice/SIP
There’s lots to know about Voice/SIP for VoIP.
Unicode Regular Expressions
Found some good info on Unicode in regular expressions: Unicode Regular Expressions. Particularly some good doco about Unicode Categories and how to indicate them in regular expressions.
Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
Via HN today: Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work. TL;DR: Misaligned profit motives. Wish I had time to read more than the tl;dr.
Knuth on reusable code
Today via Lobsters: APL Style: Patterns/Anti-patterns:
I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for
reusable code. To me, “re-editable code” is much, much better
than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on
about this. If you’re totally convinced that reusable code is
wonderful, I probably won’t be able to sway you anyway, but
you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a
menace.— Donald Knuth, Interview with Andrew Binstock
What problems do people solve with strace?
This via r/programming today: What problems do people solve with strace?