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Issue 2 |
2024-05-02 |
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https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/
This website allows you to listen to music that would be suitable for programmers.
LibreWolf is a custom version of firefox that focuses on privacy and security. It even comes with uBlock Origin already installed. For anyone who is looking to change browsers I would give it a peek.
https://www.justtherecipe.com/
If you have ever tried searching for recipes, you will realize most of the results are blogspam, and contain lots of advertisements and popups. This website allows you to copy and paste the link to a article, and see a well formatted recipe list, free of annoying hindrances.
I have recently been trying to brush up on my terminal skills, and while doing so I stumbled upon some cool tools. I have detailed them below:
cBonsai is a bonsai tree generator which lets you to watch a tree grow real time, even customizing its color, time, and more.
FIGlet allows you to create large ASCII text straight from your terminal. Created in 1991 by a group of buddies, FIGlet offers a variety of font settings.
https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Created in 1993 by Toyoda Masashi, this useless but funny command is a play on the ls command used in terminals. It creates a visual of a steam locomotive (hence the name SL) every time it is typed.
Exa is an improved file lister that incorporates colors and file icons, with the ability to control how much info is displayed. It is fast, and does a great job at giving metadata.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
If you were on the internet from the 90s to the early 2000s you will remember how google search used to give straight up results. Nowadays the internet is focused on SEO and running advertisements, as opposed to finding the best information. Many of the websites nowadays look all too familiar, focusing on garnering clicks to contribute to their advertisement revenue. This post talks about how we go to this point, and the major names behind it.
https://www.pcmag.com/articles/ibms-plan-to-update-cobol-with-watson
This article talks about how a large portion of the worlds business and banking systems run off of the programming language COBOL. Since the language is so old, many of the programmers are exiting the workforce. This is making large code-bases written in COBOL hard to maintain, since there are not many new engineers learning the language. The article goes on to talk about how IBM may be using AI to help solve the problem.