What I Touched

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What I Touched This Week 2018-07-01

Segregated Witness: A Fork Too Far What is segwit? The pros and cons. Reading Notes Blockchain Isn’t a Revolution Trust-minimizing - Cryptocurrency Tracking - Blockchain Trading - Cryptoassets Exploring Minimum-Viable Sidechains on ETC The sidechain is able to balance the advantages a private network with the security of the mainnet. If it (the sidechain) doesn’t depend data from the mainnet, then it doesn’t get any of the value of putting data on mainnet in the first place. A Photographer’s Guide to Color Histogram – The Coffeelicious Exposure Quality: 1. There is no massive overflow of the contours near the left or right edges of the histogram. 2. There are pixels in each brightness interval. 3. A picture will have a better contrast and a more impressive visual effect if the ends are higher and the middle is lower in the histogram.

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What I Touched This Week 2018-05-27

Convert git diff output to the format can be recognized by vim quickfix. Browser auto reload using osascript and watchexec Save following snippet as executable bash script reload-chrome. It reload the active tab of Google Chrome. osascript -l JavaScript -e 'Application("Google Chrome").windows[0].activeTab.reload()' Run the script above when files are changed watchexec -w app -w config -p reload-chrome Devops Security Checklist | Sqreen Best practices to check security before release. Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters…

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What I Touched This Week 2018-04-07

Tech Readings Python 3’s range is more powerful than Python 2’s xrange - Trey Hunner 40 Lessons From 4 Years of Remote Work – Buffer Stories Atomics | Vorner’s random stuff About atomics in Rust. 2 Fast 2 Furious: migrating Medium’s codebase without slowing down Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s future, fake news, and Russian mischief - Vox Making the Touch Bar finally useful :: By abandoning crappy Apple guidelines :: vas3k’s blog Customize the uniform touch bar using BetterTouchTool Resistance Is Futile. To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead. - The New York Times How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less…

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