Things tagged “references”

fifty-two things tagged “references”

The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction

13 years old but still relevant.

This is a most lovely guide to styling lists with CSS

Some Amazing Things You can do with Modern CSS

Plenty of good stuff on there but this totally blew my mind. Consider this custom tag (should be lowercased and contain hyphens. Emojis are allowed!):

<cool-thing shadow>wow</cool-thing>

and this valid CSS:

cool-thing {
    display: flex;

    &[shadow] {
        box-shadow: 1px 1px #0007;
    }

    @media (screen < 480px) {
        flex-direction: column;
    }
}

The only thing missing from my beloved SASS are mixins but I suppose you can achieve that by composing attributes (like shadow above). Super cool.

A Git Cheatsheet

By Julia Evans. I don’t think an average dev will need anything more than what’s on here.

UCoin is a vast database of coins for numismatists with nearly 46 million entries and counting (ucoin.net)

The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained (steveblank.com)

The Best Albums: Pitchfork, Rolling Stone The Best Graphic Novels: New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian The Best Movies: New York Times, Empire, The New Yorker I’ll cache and smush these soon.…

Here’s a “Household Income Percentile Calculator for the United States” (dqydj.com)

In case that site is unavailable, and for the year 2020, it’s an exponential curve with the 50th at $67,463 75th at $122,500 80th at $141,100 90th at $201,052 95th at $273,850 98th at $386,915 99th at $594,420 Until not-too-long ago, I used to think that “the top 1%” referred to “few hund…

The Art of Node

by maxogden

The Art of Node # An introduction to Node.js # This document is intended for readers who know at least a little bit of a couple of things: a scripting language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. If you aren’t a programmer yet then it is probably easier to start by reading JavaScript for…

Telugu Script Components

Telugu is a phonetic language, written from left to right, with each character representing generally a syllable. There are 52 letters in the Telugu alphabet: 16 Achchulu which denote basic vowel sounds, 36 Hallulu which represent consonants. In addition to these 52 letters, there are several sem…

BSD for Linux Users (over-yonder.net)

A Hundred Humans

Allysson Lucca is a Brazilian designer who took this original list (cached) of what the world would look like with a 1,000 people and shrank it to a hundred. The idea of reducing the world’s population to a community of only 100 people is very useful and important. It makes us easily understand t…

State of the Village Report

by Donella Meadows

If the world were a village of 1000 people: 584 would be Asians 123 would be Africans 95 would be East and West Europeans 84 Latin Americans 55 Soviets (still including for the moment Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, etc.) 52 North Americans 6 Australians and New Zealanders The people of…

Levels of Jhana

When I was a kid, I’d close my eyes and allow the strange shapes caused by the night lamp and blood flow in my eyelids to put on a small dance and lull me to sleep. Many a time, as I’d relax and drift away, I would suddenly feel this ‘inflation’ and loss of personal boundary and sense of geometry.…

Know Your Cephalopods

(Source unknown) TIL that (a) tentacles and arms are two different things and (b) there is a lot more diversity to this family than I’d imagined! I don’t mean “family” in a taxonomic sense.↩︎…

window.location Cheatsheet (samanthaming.com)

This is the best guide to Bayes’ Theorem I’ve read so far (arbital.com)

Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, and ATDD (stackexchange.com)

Math in Bash (shell-tips.com)

Lovely stuff. Cached here.…

A Guide to BSD for Linux People (over-yonder.net)

PopChart is a collection of infographic charts (popchart.co)

The TeX Family Tree History (overleaf.com)

LaTeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt. That’s a lot of TeX! This was most helpful, even though MacTeX solves all my problems.…

A Map of Indian Language Families, Languages, and Dialects

How Big is Too Big for JSON? (joshzeigler.com)

From over 10 years ago (I’m sorting through my old bookmarks). A single object looks like this: { "ACCTOUNT_NUMBER":"1234567890", "CUSTOMER_NAME":"ACME Products and Services, Inc.", "ADDRESS":"123 Main Street", "CITY":"Albuquerque", "STATE":"NM", "ZIP":"87101-1234" } He te…

An Introduction to Apache Kafka in the Style of a Children’s Book (gentlydownthe.stream)

I loved how the author imagined persistence 💗…

The Schmidt Pain Index

This is the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, an eponymous and subjective measurement of the pain caused by bees, wasps, and ants (and other things in the order hymenoptera.) It ranges from 0-4. In Level Zero, you don’t feel any pain whatsoever; the stinger doesn’t even penetrate your skin. The humble and…

A Lovely Illustrated Guide to Home Architectural Styles and Structural Elements. (magazine.realtor)

Here’s another list of 36 styles with real examples. (Cached: styles, elements one and two.)…

Latency Numbers “Every Programmer Should Know”

From a presentation by Jeff Dean. What about when technology evolves? Here’s a handy visualization. And here’s a way to think about these numbers. Nathan Hurst visualized the distances on Google Maps. Operation Time (ns) Light Distance (m) Approximate Light Distance L1 cache reference…

Guide to Book Conditions

Reproduced here via AbeBooks with this caveat: The definitions below are for reference only. Booksellers use these terms, as well as unique terms not included in this list, based on their own criteria. If you would like clarification on any term in a particular seller’s description, please contac…

A List of Hacker News ‘Classics’ (jsomers.net)

When you’re following a bunch of feeds, it’s easy to forget that the web is the greatest library in the history of the world—and that a good library doesn’t just have a rack of newspapers, it has a vast collection of books and archives: the stacks. These are stories that get reposted a lot. Many…

Getting Naticked

Rex Parker: A long time ago, I was solving this puzzle and got stuck at an unguessable (to me) crossing: N. C. WYETH crossing NATICK at the “N” — I knew WYETH but forgot his initials, and NATICK… is a suburb of Boston that I had no hope of knowing. It was clued as someplace the Boston Marathon ru…