Today I learned

Ed Roberts and curb cuts

perf stat

geohash

memory alignment is serious (especially for SIMD)

Dr. A Author and Prof. Et Al

epigrams in programming

Guinea pigs have been used for biological experiments since the 17th century.

cobra effect

moot point

moo point, a cow’s opinion

Surprisingly, master Dijkstra has a pretty nice handwriting and there is a font for his style.

Stanford marshmallow experiment

Fido came to represent every dog because of Abraham Lincoln.

Berkeley’s sister cities

emordnilap is probably a word :)

Erotomania

Voronoi diagram

Sankey Diagram

Learn How To Control Every Room At A Luxury Hotel Remotely

showkey -a

Music from /dev/urandom

KISS principle

iptables

Gantt chart

fortune | cowsay | lolcat

No Zero Day.

Hofstadter’s Law : It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

Atwood’s Law : any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

Postel’s law: : Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.

Pareto Principle: for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

Modern Microprocessors

Copy as cURL

Hilbert Curve

p-adic Numbers

Base64 Encoding

Evidence Based Scheduling