Rob Janssen

7 Database Paradigms

Learn about seven different database paradigms and what they do best. https://fireship.io/lessons/top-seven-database-paradigms/ 00:00 Intro 00:45 Key-value 01:48 Wide Column 02:47 Document 04:05 Relational 06:21 Graph 07:22 Search Engine 08:27 Multi-model #learntocode #data Learn more about Meili

8086 microcode disassembled

Recently I realised that, as part of his 8086 reverse-engineering series, Ken Shirriff had posted online a high resolution photograph of the 8086 die with the metal layer removed. This was something I have been looking for for some time, in order to extract and disassemble the 8086 microcode.

5 bash tricks to make you a cooler programmer

Why be a junior analyst when you could be a senior software engineer with a few simple bash tricks?? Find out more about this other Unix commands using your system's "man" command. Music: "Straight" from www.bensound.com

Why Linux’s biggest ever kernel release is really no big deal

When the Linux 5.8 Release Candidate opened for testing recently, the big news wasn’t so much what was in it, but its size. As Linus Torvalds himself noted, “despite not really having any single thing that stands out … 5.8 looks to be one of our biggest releases of all time.”

Stop Misusing Logical Fallacies

In the comments sections of my debunking videos, people make accusations about specific logical fallacies which only demonstrate that they have no clue what this terminology means. The most common ones are ad hominem, straw man, and argument from authority. It is quite irritating to hear hundreds of

Megahertz, Gigahertz, Registers and Instructions: How does a CPU actually work? - Kendall Miller

Don't forget to check out our links below! https://ndcoslo.com/ https://ndcconferences.com/ For decades, we’ve been creating ever higher abstractions between ourselves and the computing hardware we’re programming, but in the end whether you’re writing JavaScript, Haskell, or Python it all com

.NET Core Console App with Dependency Injection, Logging, and Settings

.NET Core has brought a lot of great benefits right into the .NET language. We get dependency injection, a much better configuration system, and we get a common logging system that is easy to use. The only problem is that mainly, we only get these things set up for us in web environments. What happe

Things You Want to Do in Git and How to Do Them

Git is a very powerful tool, but infamously it's also a very confusing one. And that has additional effects on how developers use it.

My mission to (almost) eliminate code comments

Container queries are possible!

Long thought impossible, Heydon Pickering has found a way to replicate the idea of container queries using a cool CSS trick / hack using a clever combination of flex-wrap, flex-basis, and flex-grow. It's a really powerful trick. We'll still need media queries for stuff, but this could prove to be r

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.