Thoughts

Assorted thoughts and some reference documents I put together for myself that others might find useful.

• Mattermost Plugins on FreeBSD
• FreeBSD 12 Jail Host - Part 5 - Usage
• FreeBSD 12 Jail Host - Part 4 - Jails
• FreeBSD 12 Jail Host - Part 3 - Networking
• FreeBSD 12 Jail Host - Part 2 - Jail Manager
• FreeBSD 12 Jail Host - Part 1 - Basic System Setup
• Windows 10 High Non-Paged Memory Usage (Draft)
• Grunt, Gulp and Other "G" Tools (Draft)
• Inheritance in JavaScript (Draft)
• On the State of Modern Development

Curated Content

Stuff from around the internet that I thought was interesting.

• I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster
• The movie "The Social Network" set in 2018 — via Twitter
• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 — Too real, guys.
• How do programmers get disqualified from doing everything else

Really Quick

A couple of the quotes and quips I've collected.

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Code is about communication with other humans and giving instructions to a computer, but is now much more of the former than the latter.