Posts of Interest for 6 October 2023

2023-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

This is my first attempt at using elfeed-curate to collect interesting blog posts and share them. I have also attempted to subscribe to the RSS feed for the #Emacs hashtag on Mastodon, but that doesn’t seem to be working correctly yet. I’ve seen other blogs do similar things, but is this useful for my blog? I don’t know! Let me know what you think.

Computers (4)

The intriguing announcement of Cloudflare Fonts (Bryce Wray) [Programming] Oooh, this is cool. Bryce Wray talks about the introduction of Cloudflare Fonts!
What to know about new generative AI tools for criminals (Mike Elgan) [Security] Generative AI is still a minor concern for security professionals, but the threat is rising! This is an interesting look at the state of the art and current means for addressing the threat.
Alex Schroeder: 2022-03-20 Torchbearers and bodyguards (Alex Schroeder) [Emacs] Alex Schroeder continues his exploration of running tabletop RPGs using Emacs. Check out the other blog posts in the series—they are a lot of fun. I have been playing with Emacs for running TTRPGs, as well. Someday I’ll explain my methods.
Elfeed-curate (jcs) [Emacs] Elfeed-curate sounds like a really neat package. This is my first annotation using that package, which I will soon attempt to export.

Portland (1)

Tour of Untimely Departures – SOLD OUT! (lfadmin) The Tour of Untimely Departures is an annual event at Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland. But guess what? It’s already sold out! It sold out a while back, but I didn’t notice because my RSS feed for the Friends of Lone Fir was broken.

Random Link Rodeo

2015-02-17T16:43:32+00:00

I’ve been working on a few projects, but nothing I can share publicly. However, I’ve also been out in the world of the Portland tech community, which has been excellent. If you haven’t heard of Calagator yet, go check it out.

Last week, I went to a meet-and-greet for developer evangelists from Google Cloud Platform. After talking to one of the Google devs, I was convinced to give Go a try. He told me that Go has type inference, and while I was dismayed to learn that it only has type inference on variable declarations, it still looks like a good language. I’m playing around with sawsij and Google App Engine and should have something to share in a few weeks.

Last night, I went to a PDX WordPress Meetup, where I saw Kronda Adair of Karvel Digital give a presentation called “5 Common Website Owner Mistakes and How to Fix Them.” After the talk, there was some interesting talk about website optimization and the “noisy neighbor” problem in cloud computing.

Next week, I’m looking forward to the PdxDevOps meeting, mostly because I’ve realized that this is what I do most of the time. When I build websites, I tend to handle everything from hosting and system administration through software development.

I’m really impressed by how full and rich the Portland tech community is. So far I’ve met a lot of great people in it, and I look forward to meeting more.

Erik L. Arneson — Writer and Software Developer

Posts of Interest for 6 October 2023

Computers (4)

Portland (1)

Random Link Rodeo