Gooooooood morning, World Wide Web!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- Adventures in Drone Photogrammetry Using Rust and Machine Learning
- Robotic Kitchen Automation Levels
- Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language
- Learning Sixteenth-Century Business Jargon
- Researchers find xenobots can give rise to offspring
- Xenobots: replicating living robots made from frog cells
- Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’
- Engineers Look to Nature to Create Bird-Like Robot – Unite.ai
- A Website for Learning Vim
- Estonian winter 1, delivery robots 0
Blockchain and decentralization
- Mina: Cryptocurrency Protocol with a Succinct Blockchain
- Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma
- Why Decentralization Matters
- The Rise of the Decentralized Startup
Woman computer scientist of the week
Lorraine Borman is an American computer scientist associated with Northwestern University who specializes in information retrieval, computational social science, and human-computer interaction. She was one of the founders of SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery, and became its first chair.
Cloud and architecture
- Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
- A Case for Asynchronous Computer Architecture
- Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi
- An AWS Savings Plans Calculator
- Architecture in Music: looking inside musical instruments
- Anti-patterns when building container images
- AWS Graviton 3 Instances
- AWS Redshift Serverless
- AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications
- AWS Outposts
- Release of AWS CDKv2 and Construct Hub
- “RISC V is a terrible architecture”
- AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps
Development and languages
- Transcrypt – Python in the Browser
- BFree – a battery-free prototyping platform with CircuitPython for Adafruit
- Indiedevs.net – A place for indie game developers
- Why don’t we just open the windows? covid19 prevention lost in translation
- CPython’s main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly
- Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats
- Solidjs – JavaScript UI Library
- Improve your Python regex skills with 75 interactive exercises
- BetrFS: an in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage
- GitHub Copilot Labs
- Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC
- Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
- Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
- Organizing Virtual Offsites – Case Study from GitHub
- I built an online programming language
- Pybaobab – Python implementation of visualization technique for decision trees
- Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control
- Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings
- Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables
- Coding for non-programmers: Why we need better GUI automation tools
Quote of the week
UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.
— Doug Gwyn
Enterprises
- I resigned from Twitter
- Jack on Twitter: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter
- Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry
- Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto
- Cache warming at Netflix: Leveraging EBS for moving petabytes of data
- Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife’s nudes online
- Google voluntarily de-lists The Pirate Bay
- Twitter photo-removal policy aimed at improving privacy goes into effect
- Podcast: Google’s ‘DeepMind’ Does Mathematics
- Google “20% time” volunteers has been working to rewrite Matrix
- Artificial intelligence that understands object relationships
- Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10
- Amazon’s Toll Road – How it funds its monopoly empire
- Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
- “UnGoogley”? Worker says she was fired for questioning no holiday pay
Other news
- William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker
- Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL
- What I learned about interviewing
- Reducing an LTO Linux kernel bug with cvise
- Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home
- Metaphors we learn to program by
- US Should Create Strategy by End of ’22 to Reduce Increasing Ocean Plastic Waste
- Game “While true: learn()” for free in Epic Store
- Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos