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Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban by Phil Eaton

Recently Clare signed us up for a Pickleball Beginner's Clinic and my experience is very similar to what Phil describes in his post. Definitely try out pick-up games in your local area if they're available.

A black cat in 2032 bytes by Evan Hahn

Such a cute demo! I appreciate how Evan walks us through how he made it. It's a great fit for Taper magazine, and if you all know any other online magazines like this, I would love to know.

The Misunderstood Kelly Criterion by Chris

This is the first time that I heard of the Kelly Criterion and this post does a great job summarizing what it is and its purpose. Insurance isn't a win-lose scenario, and whether or not to take a bet should depend on your current wealth as the bet affects compounding in the long run. Give it a read!

Things I enjoyed in 2024 by Josh Collinsworth

The list of games Josh played look really fun! I'll have to check some of them out myself in the new year.

I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It by Sebastian Witowski

A look into the realities of running a B2C side-business.

Formally modeling dreidel, the sequel by Hillel Wayne

I don't know much about dreidel, but I do know that I don't want to play an equivalent of a dice rolling game for 6 hours. Great formal analysis, and I need to check out the PRISM probabilistic model checker myself sometime.

Ultimate Guide to Hardening SSH by Nihar

Yes! Let's all secure our SSH connections.

Wait, I can manage DNS config without losing hair?? by Clayton Craft

I would be more tempted to switch providers if LuaDNS supported GeoDNS. Currently I've been using DNSControl to help record the DNS records for all of my domains.

Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, buy Maybe They Should? by Miguel Young de la Sota

This post talks about the wide variation of JSON (De)Serializers out in the wild. For example, some implementations will botch integers with more than 16 digits!

Waiting in Games by Lucio

Waiting helps pace players, imbue emotion, and enhance payoff. I need to figure out how to incorporate this magic into my blog posts.

Playing With Certificate Transparency by Abi Pain

It's crazy to see that on crt.sh all the SSL certificates assigned to my domain is listed. From this, I noticed that my first Let's Encrypt certificate was issued back on January 20th 2016, which was before their official release!

An introduction to thinking about risk by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Risk is not just one-dimensional. This post does a great job decomposing risk into likelihood and impact and discussing strategies for dealing with it.

Cloud Computing is Broken by Matthew Rocklin

A great reminder that just building the technology isn't enough, and that we should spend some time thinking about it's user experience.

Blog Writing for Developers by Robin Moffatt

A well written discussion on technical writing, the key dimensions to consider, as well as where a blog stands compared to other forms of writing.

Planning the day on the CLI with tsort by Tim Chase

What a genius use case for topological sort! Next time I have a lot of personal tasks where some need to happen before others, I'll give this a shot.

I think the donation notification works by Nate Graham

It certainly worked on me! I've been using KDE for years, so I decided to support them through a quarterly donation.

I made a knife by Damian Skrzypiec

I love the concept of taking a crafting class like this! The post shares plenty of pictures following along the journey.

7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 by Matt Blewitt

Currently, I'm using sqlite3 to hold my postroll. However with this post, I should consider expanding my knowledge and checking out the other types of databases out there.

Running Neovide with Containers by Ethan Martin

I love writing quick bash scripts for convinience. Ethan shows that you can move beyond the command line with kdialog.

Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing by Laurence Tratt

I'm not too familiar with parsers outside of my programming languages course, but it's fun to read about structured editing, it's drawbacks, and the success of incremental parsing.