Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

December 11, 2022

UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? | AdamW on Linux and more

it's intended to dispel a few common myths and help regular people understand UEFI a bit better.

The article is a bit long, but it indeed contains a lot of information I actually wanted to know.

Delimiter-first code

A thought provoking article on the coding syntax of sequences (lists, fields, pipes). An interesting reflection on how we typically intuit about sequence syntax in natural languages and how it may be better written in the other way around.

ChatGPT, rot13, and Daniel Kahneman | James Williams

A theory on how ChatGPT find it so hard to calculate the rot13 cipher - ChatGPT is only capable of System 1 thinking, which is based on quick intuition, whereas the rot13 problem requires going through elaborated inference, which requires the System 2 thinking ability.

The Axioms of linking | Ross Hemsley

A bunch of trivia about linking in UNIX-like operating systems.

Alma

Make a fragment shader with a node editor. You connect the nodes, preview the effect, and get a shader definition.

This project is similar to something I wanted to create for a long time.

Just Use Postgres for Everything | Amazing CTO

An advocate on using Postgres to replace the role for cache, data warehouse, message queue, document database, full-text search, and backend API. It surprises me that Postgres has all these capabilities.

Creating a handwritten TrueType font in Linux – Gordon Lesti

An article on how to make a handwritten font with Inkscape (trace bitmap) and Fontforge.