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INTERESTING things. Take a note here for future read.
● Regret Web Redesign
Hacker News
2022-07-22
A blog about a bad experience of hiring designer to do redesign for a business website.
● GPU Compute on Web
Hacker News
2022-07-19
This post explores the experimental WebGPU API through examples and helps you get started with performing data-parallel computations using the GPU.
● Tech Writing
Hacker News
2022-07-15
The way we write about and around code is arguably as important as the code itself. And despite where you fall on that line, we can all agree that our words have the potential to both help and hurt code’s effectiveness.
● Book: Algorithms for Decision Making
Others
2022-07-11
This book provides a broad introduction to algorithms for decision making under uncertainty. We cover a wide variety of topics related to decision making, introducing the underlying mathematical problem formulations and the algorithms for solving them. Figures, examples, and exercises are provided to convey the intuition behind the various approaches.
● Cursor Animation
Hacker News
2022-07-07
Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real‑world conditions are taken into account—here’s a quick introduction to a few different methods, plus some React snippets.
● Defensive CSS
Hacker News
2022-07-07
Defensive CSS is a collection of snippets that can help you in writing CSS that is protected. In other words, you will have fewer issues in the future.
● Red Engine: Python Scheduler
Hacker News
2022-07-03
Red Engine is a modern scheduling framework for Python applications. It is simple, clean and extensive.
● Good Exp of Reading Blogs
Hacker News
2022-07-03
This is a good example of how to write blog after reading a book. Check the structure and learn from it.
● How IC Gets Stuck
Hacker News
2022-06-29
How to find data points to support your constructive feedback on your peers? - Pay attention to how they get stuck.
● Glossary Page Template
Hacker News
2022-06-27
A single HTML page with a built-in editor for creating a glossary that can be hosted anywhere.
● Explaining Code using ASCII Art
Hacker News
2022-06-27
People tend to be visual: we use pictures to understand problems. Mainstream programming languages, on the other hand, operate in an almost completely different kind of abstract space, leaving a big gap between programs and pictures. This piece is about pictures drawn using a text character set and then embedded in source code. I love these! The other day I asked around on Twitter for more examples and the responses far exceeded expectations (thanks everyone!). There are a ton of great examples in the thread; here I’ve categorized a few of them. Click on images go to the repositories.
● Overturned Roe v. Wade
MIT Technology Review
2022-06-24
The final decision ends weeks of speculation following the leaking of a draft opinion in May, which detailed the Supreme Court’s resolve to strike down the ruling.
● Stack Overflow Dev Servey 2022
Hacker News
2022-06-23
The questions we ask in our annual survey help us improve the Stack Overflow community and the platform that serves them. The challenge and opportunity for us is to continue expanding and improving our ability to help all developers and to make them feel welcome in our community. Read on for more great insights about the attitudes, tools, and environments that are shaping the art and practice of software today.
● SIM CB
Hacker News
2022-06-18
You are the top banker in charge of the central bank. Your role is to maximize economic potential by putting the right amount of money in circulation, to increase the GDP of your village: the number of apples it produces. Your only lever changes the central bank interest rate. Good luck!