April 2022 Links
Culture
- Brandon Sanderson did a crowd funding campaign for some previously un-announced novels in the Cosmere universe. Sanderson shows up in the reading roadmap as well.
- Recently played Wingspan which has excellent game mechanics and a good deal of learning about birds! The same publisher has Scythe which is based on the works of Jakub Różalski. His alternative history dieselpunk steampunk mecha work is the basis for a crowd funded game called Iron Harvest. Also played Epic Spell Wars which was delightfully crass and had excellent mechanics.
- High detail synopsis of Partial Reprogramming.
- A discussion on how people manage their families digital safety. Reminder that Vaultwarden is a fantastic project and that Bitwarden is a gracious company.
- The EFF have some recommendations for Twitter’s new owner
Technology
- I’d been using mdadm on metal installs where there was two m.2 on the main board so that I could have full redundancy of the install, but this bit me recently a couple times (arbitrary degrades that require maintenance). Chris Siebenmann posts about the UEFI boot defaults on Fedora becoming more sane in recent years.
- Atlassian announced a bit ago that they would no longer support onprem, then they have had an extremely long outage where they have only restored 1 out of 3 affected customers so far.
- Zine is a rust based static site generator for an “opinionated” magazine layout.
- The creators freenet created something new called locutus, discussion on Hn here.
- Thoughtful presentation on impacts of technology choice, change, and ultimately mastery/comfort with appropriately selected solutions. Found due to this Hn discussion.
- A graphical frontend called the podman desktop companion. Apparently there was already an upstream podman-desktop.
- Detailed teardown of the up and coming CalDigit TS4. I’ve had the TS3 for several years and found it to be significantly better than all other thunderbolt based docks that I’ve had the pleasure of using.
- maplibre-rs is awesome, the lead developer has an excellent talk titled “world in vectors”.
- warpgate is a “smart” ssh bastion, where their roadmap has plans for HTTP.
- Home-assistant has added groups.
- Two projects where people are building their own DNS clients as language learning projects:
- dingo in rust, with a solid writeup.
- q in go
- init7 has a 25Gbit plan and this gentleman wrote up an excellent post about recently moving to it. There is a “nerd mode” on their site that is a refreshing read, as well as they publish their points of presence for easy review for last mile examination.
- A paper on Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes digs into the all-or-nothing trade-off between privacy and network policy enforcement, which an implementation and benchmarking.
- Detailed write up on a RPI4 Router Compute Module
Analysis
- Graphs for Science and Visualization for Science.
- AI Dungeon is interacting directly with an AI “dungeon master”