81 / That fediverse feeling

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Toot of the Week

“Then the spaceman took over the bird site so we all started tooting at the elephant place.” “Oh…ok grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.” — @weiser@mstdn.social

Culture

• Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis (verica.io)

  Casey Rosenthal about the problems of RCA and healthy alternatives.

• Long live personal websites, Let's make the web personal again! (blog.nymhq.com)

  An ode to personal websites and some advice to get started.

Tech

• The Tao of Go (bitfieldconsulting.com)

  John Arundel about the Tao of Go, principles to write and structure code that can be applied to other languages as well.

• Tracing HTTP Requests with tcpflow (ananthakumaran.in)

  Anantha Kumaran tells the story of someone on-call debugging HTTP requests with tcpflow.

• From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server (ctrl.blog)

  Daniel Aleksandersen moved from Plex to Jellyfin and shares their experience.

• How to start embedded coding (jhaand.nl)

  Jelle Haandrikman has some suggestions on how to get started with embedded coding.

• Stealing passwords from infosec Mastodon - without bypassing CSP (portswigger.net)

  Gareth Heyes explains how he found a vulnerability in Mastodon.

• Making a Go program 42% faster with a one character change (hmarr.com)

  Harry Marr explains how removing a stack alloy every loop iteration improved performance by 70 %.

• Bringing revsets to Git (blog.waleedkhan.name)

  Waleed Khan showcases the git branchless suite.

• Let's write a tiny chess engine in Go (zserge.com)

  Serge Zaitsev ported parts of sunfish to Go and explains the basics of a chess engine.

Cutting Room Floor

• Your next smart home device is a $30 used Kindle (matthealy.com)

  Matt Healy shows you how to hack a Kindle to make it part of your smart home.

• Passkeys.directory (passkeys.directory)

  1Password built a directory of websites that support passkeys.

• Solar (bastianallgeier.com)

  Bastian Allgeier shares their experience a year after installing solar panels on their roof.

• That fediverse feeling (adactio.com)

  Jeremy summarises the vibes they get when using Mastodon.

• How to choose the right Mastodon server without being a huge nerd (marcel.io)

  Marcel Wichmann has a guide mostly to non-technical people that want to get started on Mastodon.

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