Shakthi Kannan @shakthimaan@mastodon.social

watched "How not to measure latency" by Gil Tene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU (~ 45m) #performance #monitoring

A tale in adopting Alpine (GNU/)Linux for Docker https://www.madetech.com/blog/a-tale-in-adopting-alpine-linux-for-docker-problems-we-faced-with-rspec-testing #testing #docker

Mathematicians revive abandoned approach to the Riemann Hypothesis https://m.phys.org/news/2019-05-mathematicians-revive-abandoned-approach-riemann.html #mathematics

HCL exposes customer, personnel info in wide-ranging data leak https://threatpost.com/data-leak-hcl-customer-info/144919/ #security #privacy

Liran Zvibel of WekaIO on using D to create the World’s fastest file system https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/interview-liran-zvibel-of-wekaio/ #performance

"Long Form writing with Org-mode" by Ryan Rix http://doc.rix.si/cce/cce-writing.html #Emacs #orgmode

watched "Emacs setup init file and Org file for Literate Programming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaCIn5gvJ84 (~ 10m) #Emacs

Lists and Lists https://www.eblong.com/zarf/zweb/lists/ with quick reference card http://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/play-if-card.pdf

Continued progress porting #Emacs to #Rust http://db48x.net/rust-remacs-2018/

Salesforce multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/17/salesforce_database_outage/ #security #privacy

CERN Open Hardware License https://www.ohwr.org/project/cernohl/wikis/home #hardware #license

Kernel address space layout randomization https://lwn.net/Articles/569635/ #Linux

San Francisco bans facial recognition technology https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.html #Artificialintelligence #privacy

Four new exploits work against Intel's chips since 2011 https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/15/intel-mds-exploit/ #hardware #security

The #Emacs guide to key bindings http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2018/01/06/the-emacs-guru-guide-to-key-bindings/

WhatsApp rushes to fix security flaw https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/technology/nso-group-whatsapp-spying.html s/hacking/cracking/ #security #privacy

How to design for colour blindness https://medium.theuxblog.com/how-to-design-for-color-blindness-a6f083b08e12 #UI #UX #CSS

To disable all colours in shell mode use (setf ansi-color-for-comint-mode 'filter) or (setq shell-font-lock-keywords nil) #Emacs

How an ancient Indian art utilizes #mathematics, mythology and rice https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/indian-rice-art-kolam

The May 2019 edition of OSFY magazine has my article on the #GNU #Emacs list library dash.el http://lfymag.com/currentissue.asp?id=13 @OpenSourceForU