An old TED Talk: The puzzle of motivation:
- Autonomy
- Mastery
- Purpose
Laws of UX
Today I stumbled upon: Laws of UX. It has Jakob’s Law.
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.
No meta characters in regex character classes
Today while reading Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP I learned that meta characters are treated as literals in character classes. So '/^(\d[.]\d)$/' will match '1.2' but not '1x2'. Who knew!?
String validation in PHP
Learn about character type checking and filter_var. I bumped into these while reading Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP.
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.
Challenging projects every programmer should try
Man these look *hard*: Challenging projects every programmer should try.
Teardown of a PC power supply
This via Lobsters today: Teardown of a PC power supply. Also Macbook charger teardown and Apple iPhone charger teardown.