re:BASED talk: Confessions of a “Senior” Tech Guy
With a self-deprecating sense of humor, senior software consultant Shawn Davis shares anecdotes and advice with his younger self, discussing topics ranging from tech innovations to his personal life philosophy.
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🦃 The Genius of Doom, DHH tells DEI to DIE, and we give thanks for LAN parties
Genius: Binary space partitioning in Doom - This article tells the story of how John Carmack dramatically sped up the Doom rendering engine after scouring the latest cutting-edge research and discovering binary space partitioning.
Die, DEI - DHH weighs in on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - the woke approach to work culture. DEI was an attempt to reverse corporate meritocracy and color blindness, but may be on the way out with recent developments at SCOTUS.
LAN parties brought us together - Ancient LAN parties of early 2000’s lore are emblematic of a time before today’s deluge of targeted ads, when digital connectedness truly brought people together. Merritt K’s delightful new coffee table book reminisces about this finer time, and comes complete with AI-upscaled photos of the awesome spectacle that was the LAN party.
IA Launcher: DOS gaming like a boss - IA Launcher lets you travel back in time to the glory days of DOS gaming - it’s the 90’s! The program runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and gives you access to thousands of classic, publicly available DOS games.
Google using post-quantum cryptography (PQC) - Although quantum computers cannot yet practically break current encryption technologies, like RSA, Google is preparing for this imminent threat by deploying PQC now.
Wiretap - “Wiretap is a transparent, VPN-like proxy server that tunnels traffic via WireGuard and requires no special privileges to run.”
D2 - “A modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.”
sqitch - Change management for your database, without opinions or belly buttons
CapRover - an app/database deployment & web server manager. blazingly fast and very robust, with a simple UI. It also features one-click deployment of many popular open source packages.
recharts - a composable charting library built on React components
meiosis - A pattern - not a library - to manage state in your web applications. Everything’s modeled around streams, which makes debugging easy.
