Notes, links & short-form thoughts.
Is this a sandwich will determine how much of a sandwich ingredient/structure purist you are
Marie Curie reminds us that not everything is On Hold
John Krasinski has started Some Good News, a talk-show, shot in his home while this lockdown continues, focused on good news only
It may be 8 years old, but Jason Fried's give it five minutes is still a must read.
It has been several years since I've helped out with SETI or any other distributed computing project. Folding@home recently announced it's running a number of projects to help understand SARS-CoV-2 / Covid-19 so I've gladly contributed my spare CPU (and GPU!) time to help.
Google releases community mobility reports, based on recent location data from Android devices, showing in what areas people have and have not been travelling. This twitter thread by Cory Doctorow explains how many complex creations (game of craps, financial deriviatives,...
Template maker — Generate paper templates for many 3D shapes or objects
Webcam hacking on iOS and macOS, getting camera/microphone access without permission
How to make your own face mask at home
BBC set to deliver it's biggest ever schedule of educational content during this pandemic
Tips for planning and managing layoffs should you need to do so. Technical writing courses from Google. Great technical writing is an underapreciated skill for developers. It turns out it's really hard to model figures for a pandemic. SoftBank pulls...
LDN Apprentices announces their annual awards winners, including me as Tech Manager of the Year 🎉
Hiyacar passes 500 hire-days of free hires to NHS staff during the COVID-19 UK lockdown
Hiyacar passes a years worth of free booking for NHS staff
Tailscale is a great way to manage WireGuard VPN connections between devices. Looks like a good option to replace SSH tunnels and/or port forwards for exposing web services at home.