Programming Leftovers
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Alex Ewerlöf ☛ Tech gamble
TLDR; If tech debt is about having inferior technology, tech gamble is about having too much of it.
Tech debt is reactive, whereas tech gamble is proactive.
Tech debt gives the engineers a bad conscience, whereas tech gamble is a sign of naïve ambition or malice.
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Zach Flower ☛ CI/CD/CV: Emphasizing Continuous Visibility
As mentioned in this week's Sunday Reboot, I've recovered a few of my old posts from the Wayback Machine—all from my time at the now shut-down Fixate.io (via their blog, Sweetcode). These are all freelance topics, so the style of writing is a bit different than normal (for me, at least), and the topics are a little wider-ranging than I would normally write about here. I can't remember, but I think this one was originally written for Rollbar, but ultimately scrapped for whatever reason.
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Idiomdrottning ☛ Control Table board for Car Wars Classic
So in Car Wars “classic” (a.k.a. 1e through 4e) , the two main tables for driving is the Movement Chart and the control table.
Here I’ve tried to combine them to one board.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.0.10 on CRAN: Calendar Updates
The tenth release of the qlcal package complement (i.e. business day lists) and much more. Examples are in the README at the repository, the package page, and course at the CRAN package
This releases synchronizes qlcal with the QuantLib release 1.33 and its updates to 2024 calendars.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Code Club at Number Ten Downing Street
We were absolutely thrilled to organise a Code Club at Number Ten Downing Street last week, hosted by the UK Prime Minister's wife Akshata Murty as part of Lessons at 10.
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Godot Engine ☛ Dev snapshot: Godot 3.6 beta 4
Godot 3.6 is still in development, slowly but steadily! This snapshot updates toolchains for official builds and adds official GNU/Linux ARM binaries, among other improvements.