Noise

April 2022

• I would like to be paid like a plumber (Letters of Note)
• Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics (Stephen Worlfram)
• Markov Chains for programmers
• Open BB Terminal
• Adminer - PHP database manager
• Forgotten HTML attributes (Smashing Magazine)
• Swapping two numbers without using temporary variables
• Darknet Diaries (Podcast series)
• Elgato USB-C Thunderbolt Hub
• Become a Power BI data analyst
• Ruby Office 365 Graph API gem
• Stack Overflow Python clone
• freeCodeCamp() - Javascript Algorithms and Data Structures
• BarraOne API
• Windows 10 ISO stripped of spyware
• Rotary dial cellphone kit
• Tabler - open source vector icons

Fix ARM64 MacOS Nokogiri Gem Issue

stack overflow

gem install nokogiri -v '1.10.10' -- --use-system-libraries

Quick visit to WWU

March 2022

• WebGPU - All of the cores, none of the canvas
• Windows Defender is enough
• No more Einsteins
• Barrier - open source cross platform KVM software
• A Bus Called Quest
• Cloud Cannon - Git powered collaborative CMS
• Too risk averse for index investing
• React spacer gifs
• spacergif.org
• Howl’s Moving Castle (World of Howl)
• Intermittent fasting
• Ruby Together - support Ruby development
• Zulip - open source chat for distributed teams
• Postgres.js
• So, you want to become a darknet drug lord…

Grapes JS - web layout tool

• Grapes JS - open source web layout framework
• Grapes JS docs
• Grapes JS source code
• PHP app built using GrapesJS

Paid SaaS frameworks

• Djanjo Forge - Django
• Bullet Train - Ruby on Rails
• SaaS Pegasus - Django
• Laravel Spark - Laravel

Design Systems

• U.S. web design system
• GOV.UK design system
• Canada.ca design system

Claymorphic Design

• Smashing Magazine
• Product Hunt
• NPM - claymorphism-css
• GitHub - clay.css

Fix ARM64 MacOS PG Gem Issue

stack overflow

brew install libpq
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/bin:$PATH"
gem install pg

Eddie Vedder Earthlings at Benaroya Hall

Quoted in Fin|News

Security Check: Institutions, Regulators Address Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

February 2022

• URL to PDF microservice (node.js w/ Express)
• Stop using pie charts
• typesense - open source search
• Apple Fitness+ workout tracking web application
• Routed Gothic - blueprint and technical drawing font
• 2021 web hacking techniques
• Joe Abercrombie - fantasy fiction author
• Stay in touch - super simple DIY CRM
• Tibia - old school MMORPG
• Python CSV processing tutorial
• Install Ruby 2.7.3 on M1 Mac
• Use ssh-add to move ssh keys to a new machine
• Awesome list of network tunneling solutions
• Curl Impersonate - teach Curl to look like Firefox

Ruby application deployment

• $ Fly.io
• $$ Render
• $$$ Heroku

Javascript Game Development

• Phaser - HTML5 game development library
• Phaser 3 Book
• Boardgame.io - turn based game engine

SSH Tunneling

• How to setup an SSH tunnel on MacOS
• SSH over Cloudflare

ssh -L 5432:127.0.0.1:5432 user@machine.name.com

PHP Development

• PHP the right way
• Clean code PHP

Python Flask Dashboard

• Flask admin dashboard demo
• Flask source code

Quant Fun

• Awesome list of quant software resources
• FinQuant - python library
• Python portfolio analysis tutorial
• Portfolio analysis using Python
• Finance fundamentals using Python

January 2022

• Deep Learning Interviews book
• vim -y prank
• Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) certificate
• How to install PGAdmin (server mode)
• Roy’s NFT Emporium
• Dirty Little SQL
• Dirty Little SQL (github)
• DBeaver - universal database tool
• Datasette - an open source tool for exploring data
• Tips for a healthier PostgreSQL database
• Grafana University
• CSS only fingerprinting
• Compress PDF online
• Oracle Truffleruby
• Find a domain’s authoritative nameservers
• Use HSL or HCL to make gradients
• Write shitty code
• Database-less torrent website
• CommonCrawl and Internet Archive CDX tools
• Playwright - browser automation and testing tool
• Kimura Framework - Ruby web scrapping headless chromium/firefox library
• Simple CSS - clasless CSS framework
• nodep Simple CSS Zola theme
• Render - hosted PostgreSQL databases

Use descriptive_statistics gem safely

# GEMFILE
# gem 'descriptive_statistics', require: false

# Usage Example
require 'descriptive_statistics/safe'
data = []
data.extend(DescriptiveStatistics)
data.sum

SQLite Fun

• SQLite is not a toy database
• Consider SQLite
• vsv: CSV files as virtual tables in SQLite
• Variably Separated Values (VSV) plugin
• How to create one millions records

WordPress Fun

• Adding Input Fields To Comment Form
• StackExchange - Add Comment Field
• StackExchange - Custom Comment Field

GeoIP Fun

• StackExchange - how to block range
• CPAN - IP country database builder module
• MaxMind GeoIP2 database
• Country IP Blocks - ACL builder

Drag and Drop Form Building

• Formeo - vanilla javascript form building module
• Formeo source code
• FormBuilder - jQuery form builder
• FormBuilder source code
• FormBuilder development docs

Twin Falls

Sparks

December 2021

• Space Shooter
• Make your own Ruby Gem
• Apache reverse proxy tutorial
• Clever uses of Pass (Unix password manager)
• Microsoft identity platform and OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow
• Writing classes in Ruby

Flask Security

• How to secure Python Flask Web APIs with Azure AD
• Flask OpenID documentation
• Secure your application by using OpenID Connect and Azure AD
• Flask-OIDC

Ruby and SharePoint

• SharePoint Ruby Gem

host = 'contoso.sharepoint.com'
relatvie_url = ''
prefix = 'crmsandbox'
site = Sharepoint::Site.new host, relative_url, prefix: prefix
site.session.authenticate username, password