2022-01-21 Nerd Roundup!
As you can see in the video, we're continuing to have hooting, hooting, hella time playing around with using Discord as a real-time streaming/messaging platform. This week we started allowing server members to drop by live during the podcast. Once we get all of those bugs worked out, hopefully we can add real-time chatting and feedback from the community!
Two stories I'm still thinking about: CRDTs on Matrix, and web3/blockchain allowing gamers to get paid for playing games. The next decade is goiing to be a really cool future in tech!
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2022-01-21 Nerd Roundup!
| STORY | BUT WHY? |
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CRDT with Matrix as a backend
HN discussion |
Easily the coolest programming nerdy article of the past month. Sometimes buzzwords collide with good results! Yjs is the shit |
| Now, my friends, we will know who was responsible for the great goldfish invasion of 2054 | |
| Trace major supply chains | Way cool home programming project! |
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Github to support mermaid diagrams
Mermaid |
I think this is important news although I'm still digesting why. Why not graphviz, which almost owns the market so far? |
| Firing Upheld for LAPD Officers Playing Pokémon Go Instead of Responding to Robbery | A Snorlax? Seriously? What's a snorlax? |
| The code I'm still ashamed of | Probably the murkiest article this week. What would your morals prevent you from coding? How about your ethics. If a coder writes code that lures cops away from a burgarly in progress, are they somehow responsible? If not, at what point are they? |
| ‘90 Day Fiancé’ star retires from selling farts after heart attack scare | Can one retire from selling their farts online? |
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OCAML merge
Neat! Also check out algebraic effects, which are the future: https://dev.to/shimmer/why-algebraic-effects-matter-in-f-3m7g |
Multi-core OCAML finally out |
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Entangled microwave photons may give 500x boost to radar
Nice essay |
Quantum radar for the win! I have come to believe that this is real tech and not just BS. It makes me wonder how far along the major nation states are |
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Mass production of revolutionary computer memory moves closer with ULTRARAM™ on silicon wafers for the first time
Related overview: The Second Quantum Revolution |
Behold: ULTRARAM! |
| Reddit Co-Founder Says Play-To-Earn Crypto Games Will Be 90% Of Gaming Market In 5 Years | I wanted to monetize this in a startup ten years ago. Couldn't find a co-founder. Interoperability is going to be a bear. Sure would have been nice to have had a ten year head start. Wonder what the guys will come up with? |
| Lessons in Game Design: Civilization and Wargames | Fun article. Want to play a game? |
| How a routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions | A nice coding whodunit. Love reading these. |
| A high-dimensional sphere spilling out of a high-dimensional cube despite exponentially many constraints | As I understand it, the more dimensions, the more "spiky" the cube, the closer all of the spikes come to being a smooth circular surface |
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