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Running a Side Business as a Programmer: The story of Later for Reddit

Adam Bard started a little web service that now makes $1,000/mo. This is the sort of thing I need to do.
Mon Nov 26 08:39:08 2018 - permalink -

- - https://adambard.com/blog/later-for-reddit-in-review/

devops programming
Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic Programming Language Tours

I like these little introductions (at least the few I've read so far)
Mon Nov 26 08:28:37 2018 - permalink -

- - https://learnxinyminutes.com/

programming
Recreating Another Byte Magazine Cover as a Photograph – Galactic Studios

Saw these neat photographic recreations of Byte magazine cover paintings on a recent episode of EEVBlog.
Wed Nov 21 11:07:11 2018 - permalink -

- - https://www.galacticstudios.org/recreating-another-byte-magazine-cover-as-a-photograph/

electronics
dissidents Engineering Books

Copyleft engineering and programming texts by James M. Fiore.
Tue Oct 23 12:04:03 2018 - permalink -

- - http://www.dissidents.com/books.htm

electronics textbook
The Conversation, Chess Grandmasters

An interview with Hou Yifan and Judit Polgar about women in chess.
Wed Oct 17 09:38:01 2018 - permalink -

- - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswp1m

chess feminism
Vimcasts Episodes

I usually prefer text articles to instructional videos, but Vimcast screencasts are very nice.
Thu Oct 11 16:48:00 2018 - permalink -

- - http://vimcasts.org/episodes/

video
Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel's 8087 floating point chip

Another great IC photo and write up from Ken Shirriff which explains how Intel's 8087 used different gate widths in its ROM to encode two-bits of information per address.
Thu Oct 11 12:41:11 2018 - permalink -

- - http://www.righto.com/2018/09/two-bits-per-transistor-high-density.html

electronics reverse-engineer
Understanding nested list comprehension syntax in Python — /var/

Python's syntax for nested list comprehensions always seemed backwards to me; here's an explanation for why it is the way it is. I still think nested for-loops are easier to read.
Thu Oct 11 00:11:28 2018 - permalink -

- - https://spapas.github.io/2016/04/27/python-nested-list-comprehensions/

programming python
Textbook for Electrical Engineering & Electronics

Very nice online electronics textbook.
Fri Oct 5 12:39:25 2018 - permalink -

- - https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

electronics
Mastering Electronics Design – Electronics Design and Modeling with Emphasis on Analog Design

Adrian S. Nastase's weblog has some nice, short introductory articles.
Fri Oct 5 12:28:27 2018 - permalink -

- - https://masteringelectronicsdesign.com/

electronics
Basic Electronics Tutorials and Revision

Introductory tutorials on many electronics topics. I don't know who wrote these, but it is now one of the many EE websites owned by Aarow/AspenCore.
Fri Oct 5 12:17:47 2018 - permalink -

- - https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/

electronics
Pokemon Red - Full Recreation [1.11] Minecraft Project

Mr. Squishy re-implemented the Gameboy game Pokemon Red in Minecraft.

Here's an interview and video showing how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-U96W89Z90
Thu Oct 4 07:39:10 2018 - permalink -

- - https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/pokemon-red---full-recreation-111/

programming
The Mathematics of 2048: Minimum Moves to Win with Markov Chains

Everything you wanted to know about enumerating states of the game 2048 in one series of posts by John Lees-Miller.
Mon Oct 1 18:39:27 2018 - permalink -

- - http://jdlm.info/articles/2017/08/05/markov-chain-2048.html

games programming
Go: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

After writing my first small golan program, this all rings true to me.
Sun Sep 30 21:55:09 2018 - permalink -

- - https://bluxte.net/musings/2018/04/10/go-good-bad-ugly/#the-bad

golang programming
“Concurrency made easy”: coming soon to a programming language near you
Sat Sep 29 19:14:57 2018 - permalink -

- - https://medium.com/@belm0/concurrency-made-easy-d3fdb0382c58

golang programming python
Learn Vimscript the Hard Way

Steve Losh's tutorial book on Vimscript
Fri Sep 28 22:03:10 2018 - permalink -

- - http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/

programming vim
One Percent for Open Source — Eric Holscher - Surfing in Kansas
Fri Sep 28 12:18:01 2018 - permalink -

- - http://ericholscher.com/blog/2018/mar/9/one-percent-for-open-source/

opensource
My Little Cluster Story - Carolyn Van Slyck

Carolyn Van Slyck made a thing out of computers.
Thu Sep 27 12:41:47 2018 - permalink -

- - https://carolynvanslyck.com/blog/2017/10/my-little-cluster/

computers docker golang
Vim documentation: cmdline

After years of using vim I just recently discovered filename-modifiers which make it easy to, for example, quickly edit files with similar names.
Thu Sep 27 10:56:06 2018 - permalink -

- - http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/cmdline.html#filename-modifiers

vim
A crash course in compilers

This is a nice overview, from the issue of Increment magazine on programming languages.
Mon Sep 24 20:19:05 2018 - permalink -

- - https://increment.com/programming-languages/crash-course-in-compilers/

plt programming

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