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Random software notes

• Articles on some open-source software quality problems, lack of maintenance monies, data typematic error in Microsoft Flight Simulator
• GPT-3 Turing Test
• Falsehoods programmers believe about names
• Interesting NASA NEOWISE satellite story
• Golang Meetup notes continued
• AI algorithms unable to adapt to rapid swings in Coronavirus
• Interesting article about the end of Starsky Robotics autonomous trucking company
• ledger command-line accounting utility
• Why Let's Encrypt became popular
• Run DeepRacer Locally
• Mac threats on the rise? And Jamf software advertisement.
• Low-code and no-code programming
• Interesting bug in the original Adventure game
• Minneapolis-baseed Jamf company is going for an IPO
• Improving graphics performance in oVirt and QEMU
• Packer virtual machine image builder
• PayPal security bug, contest cheater, intermittent errors, and timeline of far future events
• Send message to Hipchat using REST API
• WeWork did lay off thousands
• Ubiquity networks makes bad firmware that phones home
• Interesting article on the history of Zork
• Wikipedia Refurbished
• `Mermaid.js`, like `graphviz` but more modern
• Ruby VCR package and Cheap Writing Services sponsor?
• Interesting monitoring software
• Git's antiquated contributor process and nedmalloc
• COBOL is still in use after 60 years
• Interesting articles from Programming is Terrible
• The fate of the gHacks website
• Automatic Differentiation proposal for Swift
• Interesting article about Commercial Motor Vehicle roadside inspections
• Advantages of dialup Internet
• The end of Windows Phone
• Defunct peer-to-peer software of times past
• Print queue software
• Do not use zip codes for geospatial analysis
• What DevOps is about
• `vmpooler` and `hiera-eyaml`
• Interesting DuckDuckGo privacy articles
• "Big green button," interesting software project a coworker worked on
• Ansible, cowsay, and figlet
• Two different kinds of "Inspec" and New Relic monitoring
• Some random mutterings on how to recreate a toy version of the hodgepodge of technology I used at one workplace
• Last name NOT NULL... but what if it is?
• Offshoring on Wikipedia
• PowerShell core for Linux and VBscript
• StackOverflow Documentation and how StackOverflow makes money
• Interesting viewpoint on privacy not being abstractable
• Some interesting articles and random things today
• Trouble with Google ReCAPTCHA
• American politics: Not black versus white, young versus old
• Reflection on my bad experience with Google customer support
• HackMyResume, awesome resume generator
• Awesome resume generator
• Uber releases open-source autonomous vehicle visualization toolkit
• The end of public Java updates for developers
• Visit libregraphicsworld, discuss some interesting articles
• Work-life balance leads to more diversity at workplaces
• Audit on Minnesota Vehicle Registration system failure
• New AI to continue stories where you left off, and continuous partial attention
• WeWork, rental office space company
• Dead letter office
• Good Doxygen and gtk-doc solution
• Relearning the XDG standard for dot-files
• Ex-US-spies spying on US and Uber's driver map interface
• Apple saying you can't sue them for software updates that slow down, Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+, RPi PoE woes, and multi-terabyte disk drives more reliable
• Article on "code smells" for refactoring
• Why I hate the new Microsoft flat UI designs
• NeverSSL, a site committed to not using SSL so you can sign on through public Wi-Fi networks
• Yelp's neural network eliminated all bugs, entire codebase
• Interesting blog posts from GitHub blog
• Coverity cloud service provider sudden discontinuation
• Reflection on abandoned small software projects in a company network
• Some interesting things I've learned from another Twitter
• Diagramming web app draw.io
• Solaris interface stability levels
• Notes on telephone jacks, and what a PBX is
• Different ways to indicate web page language
• CCN is yet another stalled new network protocol project
• TCP connection establishment
• More info on virtual machines, kernel same-page merging, row hammer, and Google Project Zero
• Pretty print XML on the command line
• Lazy download a file and access it like a local file, via the Linux FUSE module HTTPFS
• Emulator and virtual machine options, audio CD emulation
• OpenCL versus Vulkan for parallel compute API
• The future of GTK+
• More ways to display Markdown in Confluence
• FreeSWITCH
• Bad assumptions programmers make about time
• More info about IBM acquiring Red Hat?
• Weird things with `/dev/null`
• oVirt blog, checking if there are updates on oVirt
• Xilinx selling FPGAs to Microsoft for AI cloud
• Markdown to Confluence converters
• Set up Windows for SSH-style access
• How to use oVirt for virtualization like VMware ESXi/vSphere
• Generating a Table of Contents for Markdown
• Interesting book, _The Story About Ping_
• DuckDuckGo donations
• Learning more about Cloudflare hosting
• Security, programming, and other random things from Twitter
• Browsix, for Unix-like operating systems in-browser
• VMware `ovftool` and special characters in passwords
• Facebook owns Instagram, and notes on the history of the Internet
• Updates on ad blocking
• Windows vShadow
• Digital video and serial digital interface (SDI)
• Libre software friendly hardware on 802.11ac?
• Configuring Rocket.Chat chat server
• Multi-licensing on GitHub, and how to increase the polling rate of your mouse, and TiVo
• Lunch with Mitchell Hashimoto
• How long is too long for a build?
• More on Microsoft's new update policy
• The new Windows, why I hate it, and reflections on single-board computers and home servers
• Updates on the Free Software Foundation
• Android is the new Windows
• Interesting articles on GitHub blog
• Built-in lazy loading for Chrome
• Redis clusters on Kubernetes
• Fake GPS tracking claims
• Branded vulnerability and bug bounties
• Review of random sites
• Target Dojo
• Updates to GitHub Wikipedia article?
• HyperLogLog
• Tool-assisted speedrun
• In-game economics
• Redis security
• SteamOS, a packaged GNU/Linux, and cross-platform play
• Kernel Virtualization (KVM) control from command line
• Interesting recent GitHub blog articles, Google Perspectives API
• Google wardrivers
• Atlassian pulling out of the chat business, reflections on product development and adoption speed
• Reflecting on WebAssembly industry-wide adoption and containers in the browser
• ReFS and reflections on engineering
• "Blueprint" organization
• Explaining modern web development to someone from 10 years ago
• Firefox Quantum release?
• Guido van Rossum steps down from Python
• Interesting articles from Medium, etc.
• Medium engineering article
• Is YouTube still loosing money? Amazon Echo and competitors.
• Nested comments and C compilers
• Vim in WebAssembly
• winswitch
• Google marketing to the classroom
• Finally, more info from game devs
• Cloud APIs and Gloo
• Looking for Wikipedia article on early NSFNET and exponential backoff
• Python package dependencies from Git repositories
• WANEM server?
• Updated Linux adoption rates
• W3C editing software Amaya
• Interesting HTTP status codes, gag orders, appropriate technology
• GitHub evacuation repository overloaded
• The steam is heating up on the GitHub acquisition
• In-browser terminal emulator
• Reflections on Microsoft acquiring GitHub
• checkup, Golang status page
• What is Serverspec?
• Configuring Mattermost chat server
• Convert WebEx recordings to MP4
• Good article on creating pull requests
• Software names poem
• DevOps tools