Digital fingerprinting

Turns out incognito mode doesn’t quite protect privacy, websites can still track us. https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private https://github.com/jackspirou/clientjs

November 6, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan

Data Fallacies to Avoid

https://www.geckoboard.com/best-practice/statistical-fallacies/

November 4, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan

Hard work alone is not enough

Hard work doesn’t matter much if no one recognizes it. Sad but true. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210921-why-hard-work-alone-isnt-enough-to-get-ahead

September 27, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan

Roadmap to becoming a data engineer in 2021

Sounds about right! =) https://github.com/datastacktv/data-engineer-roadmap

September 15, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan

Repetition without real progress

… it becomes bad when you continue learning even when you know enough. Even when you’re capable of jumping right into the project and figure things along the way, you keep delaying it. Beginning something new is uncomfortable, therefore instead you choose to read an article or take a course just so you can tell yourself that you’re working, but in reality, you’re just looping, you’re not making any progress on the project. ...

August 20, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan

Create more

Most knowledge worth having comes from practice. It comes from doing. It comes from creating. Reading about the trade war with China doesn’t make you smarter—it gives you something to say at dinner parties. It gives you the illusion that you have the vaguest idea what is happening in our enormously complex world. https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more It makes me think how I should spend my time. The article is a little one-sided, but the point is clear. ...

August 20, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan

The evolution of trust

A nice game or interactive presentation to learn the Game Theory. https://ncase.me/trust/

August 11, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan

COVID-19 Integrated County View

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view Back to red again…

August 11, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan

How to tell if a wall is load-bearing

August 11, 2021 · 0 min · birdchan

Roadmap and ETA

Nice article to highlight what usual goes wrong in software development in a corporate setting. https://iism.org/article/driving-engineers-to-an-arbitrary-date-is-a-value-destroying-mistake-49

August 6, 2021 · 1 min · birdchan