Amdahl’s Law
In a random thread on Hacker News talking about air purifiers, someone mentioned Amdahl’s Law:
Getting a new game sucks today
Getting a new game sucks today. Back in my day, we had booklets to read by street light on the drive home from Toys ‘R Us. You popped the game in, and if your room was clean, you were ready to rock. No console updates. No installing files to disk. No downloading game updates. Just you, your shiny new game, and a soda.
macOS Screenshot Tricks
Someone posted some macOS screenshot tricks on Hacker News today. I knew about these, but the comments had a few extras I always forget (like holding option when clicking a window to ignore the window shadow).
Pull Requests start conversations
I worked at Envato for about two years and one of the biggest things that sticks with me is a tiny little blurb that was in all of our Pull Request templates: Remember, a Pull Request is the start of a conversation, not the end of one.
Somehow, I Manage: Everyone Wants to Sell You Something
When I was given a company credit card, I didn’t know that vendors would magically get a hold of my email address to try selling me something.
Did you know: wildcard SSL certificates and subdomains
Did you know wildcard SSL certificates only support one level of subdomain?
That XOR trick
Super comprehensive deep dive into the XOR (^) operator.
Five steps to take after making a mistake
Solid advice, pretty much in any profession.
dns.toys
Just discovered dns.toys, a little DNS hack that lets you do stuff like
dig newyork.weather @dns.toys to get back different types of data. It would
be fun to do stuff like this as an employer searching for network engineers 😀
If OpenSSL were a GUI
Yuuup, lol.