Link Diary February 2024
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- African elder about life
- Refactoring hands-on
- I Agile bad for programming
- Improve your handwriting
- The 12-factor-app explained
- The news in US and Germany compared
- How to eat Hotpot
- Abuse of artists using AI
- Drawing fur
- Pee in a pool
- VOMIT journaling
- Ancient math simplification
- Make My Logo Bigger Cream
- Simple complex architecture
- Got ADHD?
- Air powered french clocks
- 5 minutes of meditation
OKR Day
On february 29th I attended the "OKR Day". Some of the links that were shared during the sessions:
Convert webfonts into Linux system fonts
Saw a nice webfont? You can download the woff2 files by finding them in the DevTools Network tab.
To convert them to ttf, you need woff2 tools
sudo apt install woff2 woff2_decompress fontfile.woff2
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1322153/installing-woff-font-file
If the newly created font has issues being installed, you may use FontForge to try fix it. Sometimes it's just the name, which can be adjusted there easily.
Installing FlatHub on Ubuntu
Ubuntu uses Snap, while the world is using Flatpack.
Solved PHP module compile error with apprentice.lo
Error: Warning: end of file in string apprentice.lo
Increase memory of your VM to 4GB and it'll run through.
Regex Cheatsheet
Found a pretty good cheat sheet for everyday regex.
https://cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions/
Nerdy Comics
Create a bootable Linux USB Stick using Windows
For me, the "Universal USB Installer" is the most uncomplicated way to do this.
The latest version will use Ventoy, which is awesome because with a large enough USB stick you can then simply copy ISO files into the directories of the stick.
https://www.chip.de/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer_56810883.html
Enterprise Architecture overview
Based on the book "A practice of Enterprise Architecture", this is the essence. Still worth reading the book, though, otherwise a lot of context is lost.
Also by Svyatoslav Kotusev: "Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: The Fad of the Century"
https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/enterprise-architecture-frameworks-the-fad-of-the-century/
Barbie in a Blender
Apparently this is a thing. July, 27th. Since 1997.
Learn Drawing
I watched a video about "How to draw better than 99% of people" where "Draw A Box" was mentioned.
This sounds like a profound way to get solid drawing muscle memory. I might try it.
Half a million old vinyls
Archive.org provides a huge archive of digitalized old vinyls.
Password stolen?
There are hacks and data leaks happening here and there and on one or another website, maybe your email and password was extracted. Now, hope you didn't use this elsewhere, or did you?
It's a good idea to check if you were in any of such leaks using
And to
- have a different password everywhere that's reasonably hard to guess.
- change passwords every once in a while
- activate 2-factor authentication
- use a password manager to keep track
Cyberpunk team culture change fixed the game
The interesting story from a hirrible release and a success story afterwards by … giving responsibility to the team to make good decisions.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-reorganization-behind-rescuing-cyberpunk-2077
The Senior Developer is also still learning
The difference might be, that he knows that this is the case.
https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/falsehoods-junior-developers-believe-about-becoming-senior/
Finally the first ethically responsible AI
I have the feeling it will not kill ChatGPT. 
The Coding Train
Stumbled upon this channel, where the trainer walks you through the development of the solution to a a certain problem with a fun attitude. Mistakes will be made and that's fine, that's what coding is about, so we learn. Some call him the "Bob Ross of Coding"
Video Picks
In this interview an africal elder is interviewed about nature, society and life questions.
He refactors a working software, using unit tests to verify it works properly.
The Agile Manifasto holds up, but the blind adaption of frameworks have turned the agile way of development to a brainless and contradicting process.
From motion to letters to words to sentences. This excercise works well also for learning to write with a specific Font.
To build for a modern scalable tech stack, the 12-factor-app can provide the guardrails.
An american observing the german news in its boring neutrality with the entertainment-approach of the US.
A nice introduction to th delicious group experience of Chinese Hotpot.
This scam is really an asshole move on artists. Requesting a free hand-drawn sketch to then "finishing it" with AI and selling it without any credits to the artist.
Nice technique to draw realistic fur step by step.
Not sure if I wanted to know that? The approximate the amount of pee in a pool with science!
A set of effective approaches to have an idea what to journal about and how it can lift your mental health.
A very clever approach that would have made math so much easier back in the days.
A classic that is as relevant today as it was in the 2000s.
Valuable talk about decoupling, services and the like.
When 8 or the 12 criteria match, you probably are. I got 7, so …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gol_p2aWrJg
"Thin client clocks" using air pressure instead of electricity.
Coming home from work with unrest, brain pudding and no mood to do anything productive?
These 5 minute mediations do the trick for me. After that I'm as good as new and can do something with energy.
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