A Tour of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup is a great guide of how to write good, idiomatic C++ code - which bits to use and what to avoid. #book
Making promises in JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Using_promises #webdev
Firefox let's you unload tabs by visiting the special about:unloads page (or the about:processes page) #firefox
xkcd: frequency
https://xkcd.com/1331/
On Ukraine - Roads.org.uk
https://www.roads.org.uk/blog/ukraine
LWN puts things in context: "Younger readers may not be familiar with [FTP], which was once how we downloaded Linux distributions before writing them to a pile of diskettes. That is the source of the "ftpmasters" name; it's a reminder of how much worse things used to be." https://lwn.net/Articles/884301/ #linux
How to get systemd to open a tcp port and pass it to a service - useful for non-root services wanting a low-numbered port
https://www.sobyte.net/post/2022-01/systemd-socket-activation/ #linux
Mike Massimino's book is a very good read, covering the Space Shuttle and Hubble, and what it takes to become an Astronaut. #book
Ridiculously detailed London Underground map https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-london/ #london
The Manhattan Project, from In Our Time
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00108h1
Starship Titanic - the radio drama of the book of the video game by Douglas Adams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012pjv #h2g2
The James Webb Space Telescope – the successor to Hubble – is launching this week. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1m8t #podcast #space
The Omicron Strain https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/omicron-update #covid
The AMS maths-a-day desk calendar
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/12/16/366-days-of-math/ #math
GM Word of the Week is a great podcast if you're interested in everything - the world, all that's in it, and how it all fits together. For example, this great episode on ancient Persia
https://www.gmwordoftheweek.com/home/the-medes #podcast
What makes stuff sticky? I was glued to the radio https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszv68
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