Programming Leftovers, Education, and Standards
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Rlang ☛ new programming with data.table
baby steps creating handy functions with the new data.table programming interface
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Rlang ☛ Optimize your images with R and reSmush.it
Compress the size of your images with R, resmush and reSmush.it
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Idiomdrottning ☛ Creating PRs from the command line
On Gitea instances and Forgejo instances (like Codeberg) you can create git PRs from the command line without using the web and, unlike GitHub, you don’t have to install any new apps outside of the git you cloned with.
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Paul Armstrong ☛ There can be only one Array<T>
This is that one little syntax hill that I will forever defend. The shorthand syntax for Arrays in TypeScript is unnecessary and unclear.
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Earthly ☛ Optimizing Rust Build Speed with sccache
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use sccache to optimize Rust build speed. During this process, you’ll learn how to configure sccache for different scenarios, integrate sccache with Cargo, measure and optimize build performance, and use caching in continuous integration (CI) environments.
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Education
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The Register UK ☛ DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on
The world's largest hacking conference, held since 1993 and lately drawing in as many as 30,000 attendees, has been held in venues owned by the Caesars Entertainment for well over a decade. But according to conference founder Jeff Moss, AKA Dark Tangent, the hotel and casino operator unexpectedly canceled the Con's booking with no warning or explanation.
"We don’t know why Caesars canceled us," Moss wrote. "They won't say beyond it being a strategy change and it is not related to anything that DEF CON or our community has done. This kind of no-notice cancellation of a contract is unheard of in the conference business. The parting is confusing, but amicable."
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ FOSDEM 2024: you too could have made curl
This is the video recording of my talk with this title, done at February 4, 2024 10:00 in the K1.105 room at FOSDEM 2024. The room can hold some 800 people but there were a few hundred seats still unoccupied. Several people I met up with later have insisted that 10 am on a Sunday is way too early for attending talks…
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SparkFun Electronics ☛ Download SparkFun + Elektor Magazine For Free!
Generously, Elektor is offering up a free downloadable version of the 'zine on their site! Check out the video and list below for an idea of what you can expect from this issue!
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Standards/Consortia
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Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity ☛ C2PA Explainer
The development of this Explainer is ongoing. This Explainer accompanies the C2PA Specifications for Content Credentials with the intent of providing further background and clarification on the development of the standard, its goals, mechanisms and guidelines.
This Explainer is not a technical document and is directed towards the general public.
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Content Authenticity Intiative ☛ Getting started with Content Credentials
This is a technical introduction to the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) open-source SDK that provides initial context and an overview of the technical aspects of implementing CAI solutions.
The CAI open-source SDK is fully compliant with the C2PA specification, but it's important to note that the specification is more general than the SDK, which doesn't support every feature in the specification.
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