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Very useful iOS Shortcut for customizing the icon of bookmarks added to the home screen. Works from Safari only.

During training an agent exploited insufficient DNS filtering to reach an external chatbot via DNS delegation despite other requests hitting an offline webcache. Amazing and scary.

Pages CMS is a lightweight system for managing short posts in static blogs (e.g., Hugo), simplifying creation, editing, and publishing of brief content without a full CMS.

via http://kottke.org/15/06/airplane-aerobatics-are-hilarious What a fun video. Encore!

via http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/the-log-the-lifeblood-of-your-data-pipeline.html Interesting article. I hadn’t heard of Fluentd, looks useful. The old paradigm — machines to humans, and the new — machines to machines. Image courtesy of Kiyoto Tamura. Over the last decade, the primary consumer of log data shifted from humans to machines. Software engineers still read logs, especially when their software behaves in an unexpected manner. However, in terms of “bytes processed,” humans account for a tiny fraction of the total consumption.

via http://mattgemmell.com/whisky/ Nice essay.But then, finally, with one last branch hacked from your way, you set eyes upon it, and stand there. Silent and still. Perhaps you raise a hand, feeling time-worn stone beneath your fingertips. A dream, finally made solid. You’ve come so far, and now, at last, you’re here.

via http://kfury.com/the-first-apple-homepage Looks positively old-fashioned now, but the memories! I don’t remember this particular page, but I do remember compiling and using Mosaic as my first web browser on an old DECstation 5000, my first Unix workstation.

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog > Which is to say you get a feeling about English that Calvin once got with his pet tiger on a day of fresh-fallen snow: “It’s a magical world, Hobbes. Let’s go exploring!” Very nice article. I ended up using the package from this page, which has slightly-better formatting in my opinion.

Another great article by Matt Gemmell. I knew most of them, but learned a few things. The golden part for me were the third-party utilities, in particular Shortcat, which I didn’t know and is amazing: > It’s basically Spotlight but for all visible controls and objects on the screen: it’s type-to-select for *everything you can see*. The whole article is worth a read.

Great article. I’ve been working from home full-time for more than seven years, and running my own business for the same amount of time. Many of us at least have the opportunity to occasionally work from home, and I daresay that many people would like the chance to do so permanently. It’s not just as straightforward as pulling out a laptop in the living room, though. Working from home has a number of difficulties and challenges. In many ways, it’s a battle for mastery of yourself. I’d like to talk about a few of the issues I’ve faced, and how I handle them.

Interesting explanation, via http://ralfmaximus.tumblr.com/post/73635353732/spinningyarns-doctorbee-xwidep-scales This is because Fahrenheit is based on a brine scale and the human body. The scale is basically how cold does it have to be to freeze saltwater (zero Fahrenheit) to what temperature is the human body (100-ish Fahrenheit, although now we know that’s not exactly accurate). Fahrenheit was designed around humans. Celsius and Kelvin are designed around the natural world. Celsius is a scale based on water. Zero is when water freezes, 100 is when water boils. Kelvin uses the same scale as Celsius (one degree, as a unit, is the same between the two), but defines zero as absolute zero, which is basically the temperature at which atoms literally stop doing that spinning thing. Nothing can exist below zero Kelvin. It’s the bottom of the scale. So. Fahrenheit: what temperatures affect humans Celsius: what temperatures affect water Kelvin: what temperatures affect atoms

Hilarious - Ellen on the “Internet Password Minder”

I’m giving an Ignite talk for the first time at DevOps days Paris. It’s an interesting format: a 5-minute talk with 20 auto-advancing slides, every 15 seconds. I found How to Give a great Ignite Talk by Scott Berkun very useful, including the accompanying video.

Included in the #LinuxCon registration packet: a skateboard# via twittelator

I would like to challenge you to attempt to emulate their dam project any dam time and/or any dam place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no dam way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic. via lettersofnote.com Amazing letter - read the whole thing, it's incredibly funny.

At 16:02 UTC, Friday, May 25, 2012, the SpaceX Dragon officially became the first privately-owned commercial spacecraft to be captured by and berthed at the International Space Station. It is (if I’ve done the math correctly) the 114th spacecraft to dock with ISS, including the missions sent up to build the station. It is the first privately-owned commercial spacecraft in history to do so.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com This video is simply amazing.

via shop.oreilly.com Free e-book from O'Reilly.

Photo credit: NASA I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor.

Ever pushed a new project to GitHub and wished you had the time or talent to make a beautiful page for it? Stop wishing. We're proud to present the new GitHub Page Generator. via github.com Very nice new feature.

via thesun.co.uk Poor dog, but hilarious video.

A collection of useful .gitignore templates via github.com Useful resource.

via vimeo.com Amazing - a continuous-flow artificial heart. You can live without a pulse.

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via youtube.com Beautiful.

COMMANDMENTS Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring." Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! When you can't create you can work. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it. Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards. via listsofnote.com Excellent advice for any line of work, not only writing.

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To sum up, you delete the offending directory and then run something to the effect of git filter-branch --index-filter \ 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path/to/the/formerly/misbehaving/module'

nwdiag generates network-diagram image file from .diag file. .diag file is similar to DOT file (graphviz’s). You can get diagrams like this.

via boston.com A-ma-zing. All made from ice.

via youtube.com Wow, the amount of work that went into making this makes me dizzy.

via youtube.com Communicate Better.

The cable caught on my knee while working out and snapped off the microphone unit :( Hope to get it repaired or replaced, I love these headphones.

the man sitting next to me was reading proprietary information, information that could be very, very damaging to this company if in the wrong hands, and he couldn’t have cared less about it via shankman.com Fascinating, scary story. It's amazing the things people do in airplanes (particularly on their laptops/iPads/phones) as if no one was watching them. Situational awareness is very important.

via daring fireball.net Awesome. So many memories.

via boston.com It's been a while since a linked to a Big Picture set, but this one deserves it. They are all beautiful photographs.

We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We've done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format. via fontsquirrel.com Lots of nice, free fonts.

Let me wrap this up by giving you a quick summary: If someone tells you that all the apps in the multitasking bar are running, using up memory or sucking power, they are wrong. When you hit the home button, an app moves from Active to Background and quickly to the Suspended state where it no longer uses CPU time or drains power. An app may request an additional 10 minutes of Background running to complete a big task before becoming Suspended. If memory is becoming scarce, iOS will automatically move Suspended apps into the Not Running state and reclaim their memory. Five classes of apps - audio, GPS, VOIP, Newsstand and accessory apps - and some built-in apps such as Mail may run indefinitely in the background until they complete their task. via speirs.org via daringfireball.net Great post explaining iOS background processing and why you don't need to go around removing apps from the multitasking bar.

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15 Years Ago Today Apple acquired NeXT. Not a bad move. via daringfireball.net Not a bad move indeed. I loved NeXT computers and NEXTSTEP, and I'm happy every time I see its legacy on my Mac.

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via scanomat.com I remember joking in grad school that we should've had coffee-on-tap so we didn't need to walk all the way down to the kitchen. Seems my dream has come true. I want one of these.

via Bad Astronomy Amazing.

via feedproxy.google.com Very nice video.

Nyamulagira, which generally erupts every two years, rumbled to life at 8:06 p.m via news.nationalgeographic.com Must be an amazing sight.

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via theinspiration.com One time on a plane from Brussels to Chicago, I was trying to make space in the overhead for my backpack, by moving a large bag with a flowery stamped design. A large tattooed, biker-type guy across the aisle says to me: "please be careful, I'm transporting a china set in there".

Quadrocopters are really getting popular for research, and for a reason - they are seriously cool. Arms / grippers have already been used on them:

via theatlantic.com Wow.

via theatlantic.com Nice photo set from the Panamerican Games.

via daringfireball.net Voice recognition is hard :)

Let's talk about some of those secret features you may not know about. via github.com Nice article about some lesser-known GitHub features.

The tools that Dennis built — and their direct descendants — run pretty much everything today. —Brian Kernighan via nytimes.com Nice article about Dennis Ritchie.

via kottke.org WHOA, WHERE THE HELL DID THAT GUITAR NOISE COME FROM??!

via vimeo.com Nice video.

via albinoblacksheep.com And now for an oldie but most definitely a goodie - the Llama Song! (click on the link to see it in its full forever-repeating glory)

via jasonadriaan.com Amazing.

on youtube.com via web-heads. There's probably a recall on these.

via gizmodo.com This is the stuff of Sci-Fi movies. Amazing.

via slipsum.com Awesome.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Amazing illusion.

via youtube.com This is making the rounds, so I might as well contribute. Beautiful (and maybe not so hard to do - it's much like a dot-matrix printer, but printing from bottom up). I saw one of these a few years ago at the Motor Show in Geneva (at the Jeep stand), but it was much lower resolution and much less creative.

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Follow mode is a minor mode that makes two windows, both showing the same buffer, scroll as a single tall “virtual window.” To use Follow mode, go to a frame with just one window, split it into two side-by-side windows using C-x 3, and then type M-x follow-mode. From then on, you can edit the buffer in either of the two windows, or scroll either one; the other window follows it. In Follow mode, if you move point outside the portion visible in one window and into the portion visible in the other window, that selects the other window—again, treating the two as if they were parts of one large window. via stackoverflow.com Very useful, and something I didn't know about.

via youtube.com Beautiful video.

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As annoying as Outlook is most of the time, it has a few nifty features. For example, this notification: appears at the top of a compose window when appropriate. It is very useful because it appears if, while you are typing a message, another one comes into the same thread, thus reducing occurrences of "crossed" (and possibly conflicting) responses.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Amazing short video. Make sure you enable HD, hit play, then pause, and let it download entirely before resuming, so you can watch it without interruptions. And make it full screen!

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Very nice video.

I hate this game. I hate it so much. I don’t want to play it. I hate playing it. I don’t enjoy playing it. But every day [...] I play it. I cry and I throw a tantrum and I complain and I hate it so much, but I play it.

via youtube.com Scary and amazing. He seems so calm!

This time i’m going to talk about the basic components that make up a physics engine and how to put them together; this tutorial is aimed at programmers who have a basic grasp of maths and geometry but would like to step into the world of simulation.

via commodoreusa.net I SO want one.

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via boston.com Another beautiful set of pictures from TBP.

via theatlantic.com Amazing. Looks like something from an Alien movie.

Open Penetration Testing Bookmarks Collection via code.google.com

via talkingscience.org What a cool robot.

This article explains how you can digitally sign a file or a macro project by using a certificate. If you don't already have a digital certificate, you must obtain one. To test macro projects on your own computer, you can create your own self-signing certificate by using the Selfcert.exe tool.

Yes, those are buildings on fire as they are being swept along with the water. That is one of the most terrifying, horrifying things I have ever seen.

via boston.com Amazing pictures of an incredibly dangerous expedition. Just look at the guy in the photo above, standing at the very edge of a lava lake. Click through for more beautiful pictures.

via youtube.com Very nicely done :)

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Simply incredible that someone can get a picture like this from the ground.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Just amazing.

"Watching you on Jeopardy! is what inspired the whole project," one IBM engineer told me, consolingly. "And we looked at your games over and over, your style of play. There's a lot of you in Watson." I understood then why the engineers wanted to beat me so badly: To them, I wasn't the good guy, playing for the human race. That was Watson's role, as a symbol and product of human innovation and ingenuity. So my defeat at the hands of a machine has a happy ending, after all. At least until the whole system becomes sentient and figures out the nuclear launch codes. But I figure that's years away.

Yet in a city where some of the most prominent buildings have sat vacant for decades and booting a scandal-plagued mayor out of office took eight months, raising $50,000 to produce and install a 7-foot-tall iron replica of the crime-fighting cyborg was accomplished in a mere six days.

via youtube.com Amazing feat, incredible technology. Congratulations to the Watson team!

via thereifixedit.failblog.org Very impressive.

Taken at John F. Kennedy

It’s an impressive animation of what would happen if an asteroid — maybe 100 500 miles across or so — impacts the Earth. The visuals are stunning, and someone set it to excellent music for the action

via boston.com Beautiful, sometimes heart-breaking photos. Kids are kids anywhere, play and laugh and cry, but no kid should have to live in the poverty shown in some of these pictures.

via reflectionof.me Great photo.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com "Crumbly"

via youtube.com Awesome video. Every grad student I know has felt like this at some point.

via reflectionof.me Very nice video.