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blogs Privacy best practices Why we care about privacy reflections on snowden revealations PETs an intro to technologists Privacy UX and privacy culture Who’s good at data privacy Metrics for success: How to evaluate Privacy choice in usability How Federa…

I came across this website which tracks and tests privacy of various browsers. https://privacytests.org/ Takeaway IMO: in desktop browsers Brave, Mullvad and librewolf seems better because of the built in ad protection. but brave clearly has better User e…

I’ve been involved with tech startups for the last 5 years.

I have a long-running ailment called the Shiny Object Syndrome .

polynomials when we represent the output of a function f(x) in the y axis and the input in the x axis we end up with the curve, depending on the function.

encryption Shannon cipher assumes a shared secret key that is no smaller than the message being transmitted.

Systems Software Build a functional VM isolate Machine Learning Build a large CNN Multi Node model training. build a Company

Angels appear as what you fear, devils appear as what you desire. – Holly Herndon कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।

I was casually going through my bookshelf and this caught my eye.

This was an incredible book, that lets a peek inside the mind of a genius.

Velocity matters the most on shortification of “learning” There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment.

I usually like watching videos or brute force play for picking up skills.

using a DNS aliasing to circumvent ad blocking tools got me wondering about the feasibility, because theoretically it should be possible.

Paul Kalanithi’s heart touching story about his struggle to search for a life with meaning, across literature and medicine, finally having a calling in neuroscience only for it to slip away too soon in the form of lung cancer.

blogs make the news Blog mediums such as, twitter, instagram, reddit and others and their operating mediums (users) have an outsized impact on the wider society, the way it thinks and operates.

Tony Fadell Writes about his lessons from his enrepreneurial and leadership role, shipping multiple successful products.

There’s lots of ways to be, as a person.

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scaling to million users isolate, process and database db scaling Database replication Master(writes,updates), slave(reads) setup for databases helps scale reads in a database When a master node goes down, a slave is selected and promoted to become the ma…

apache kafka event streaming platform Events?

live templates is very useful to record oft repeated patterns control + ' to toggle soft wrap in a file

Great book on about money and other ideas, I definitely suggest it as a good read.

Where wizards stay up late - 2023-03-15 14:28 An incredible book, looking back at the birth of a technological marvel.

making a nested map $m := dict (slice "n" "m" "new") "true" creates a nested map with m.n.m.new returning “true”

MapReduce is a programming model published in 2004 by google, to process large data in clusters in general, it involves 2 events

rust and ownership Rust has no garbage collector garbage collectors scala and actor model

Bloom filters have nothing to do with flowers (despite the blog emoji 🥸).

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These are my notes from following the excellent book, javascript for impatient programmers by axel Rauschmayer understanding let and var The let keyword creates a new variable locally. it is not attached to the global object

ch-1: reliable, scalable and maintainable applications reliability, The system should continue to work correctly even in the face of adversity (hw, sw or human).

go get vs go install go get, downloads and adds in GOPATH. go install, add creating mutex When embedding a mutex in a struct. any functions associated to the mutex should utilize a pointer receiver.

In Sandbox mode, mail can be sent only to verified emails.

I’ve been looking for an alternative to firebase.

sources CMU database group relational model Relation is unordered set of tuples.

Inspiration comes from many places.

interesting: Flame graphs don’t show sequentiality.

Companies are valued much higher when they are pursuing something super big, super into the future. eg, facebook => meta, amazon => cloud, etc

Bugs in a browser extension are always frustrating because extensions are usually so brittle.

CSRF token invalid __URL__ not in trusted origin This happens because there is no CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS in the settings file.

browser extensions have been an area of interest for a while.

This is still a WIP and I’ll be updating each one as I discover and play with new stuff. why cross platform?

When I was around 13 or 14 I used to have this wild vision of the world, where everybody was optimising for the betterment of humanity and not “wasting” their brains on useless stuff like movie gossips and whatnots.

Without praying at the altar of google, A site doesn’t exist in the internet.

I was trying to install jekyll in my local machine and faced this error /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/mkmf.rb:467:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file.

goals: Find a VPN solution that would be able to maintain an ACL.

rvm is a tool to maintain a Ruby environment. rvm --default is a shortcut to set the default Ruby environment. rvm use is a shortcut to set the current Ruby environment.

Exposing Local Services with Cloudflare Tunnels Cloudflare Tunnels let you expose local services to the internet without opening ports or configuring firewalls.

ch4 : processes The problem : How to create the illusion of many CPUs when, we only have few. done by running one process and pausing and running another and so on.

A history lesson on ARM, The company that is at the epicenter of all tech innovation in the 21st century.

Historically, Most innovation has originated from developed nations and trickled down to developing ones, very much following the Trickle down efffect