True size of countries

https://www.thetruesize.com/ It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Even though Greenland looks really big on the map, Greenland being 0.8 million sq. miles is much smaller than Africa being 11.6 million sq. miles.

August 21, 2022 · 1 min · birdchan

Psychology and life

June 11, 2022 · 0 min · birdchan

IAM demystified

https://start.jcolemorrison.com/aws-iam-policies-in-a-nutshell/ IAM is basically Who can do what to which resources. When do we care? Nice article.

March 16, 2022 · 1 min · birdchan

Code Review

Ref: https://www.morling.dev/blog/the-code-review-pyramid/

March 11, 2022 · 1 min · birdchan

Reversing emojis

Interesting read. https://davidamos.dev/why-cant-you-reverse-a-flag-emoji/ ` flag = “🇺🇸” reversed_flag = flag[::-1] print(reversed_flag)🇸🇺 ` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64136641/how-to-reverse-a-string-that-contains-complicated-emojis A library that does the reverse operation correctly. https://github.com/dotcypress/runes

January 28, 2022 · 1 min · birdchan

docker compose file creation

This tool will convert a docker run command into a docker compose file. https://www.composerize.com/

January 15, 2022 · 1 min · birdchan

ENTRYPOINT vs CMD

The ENTRYPOINT specifies a command that will always be executed when the container starts. The CMD specifies arguments that will be fed to the ENTRYPOINT. FROM debian:wheezy ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/ping"] CMD ["localhost"] $ docker run -it img google.com Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21553353/what-is-the-difference-between-cmd-and-entrypoint-in-a-dockerfile/34245657#34245657

January 3, 2022 · 1 min · birdchan

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