h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Signed BGP routes (featuring an online checker) and preventing spoofed IP traffic
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2021/04/30/teaching-our-network-some-manrs/ #networking

Killing off /dev/kmem https://lwn.net/Articles/851531/ #linux

Postgres database is extendable - you can write your own index implementation by implementing a few functions.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/gist-intro.html #db

Speeding Culture
https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2020/09/speeding-culture.html

How big can a fundamental particle be?
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/how-big-can-a-fundamental-particle-be #physics

Level of detail available on https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ by region. What's wrong with North East England? Not enough volunteers gathering info? cc @democlub

Making vaccine out of viruses https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/28/brazil-rejects-the-gamaleya-vaccine

Just 6 days until local and regional elections in the UK. Find your local councillors at: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/

Boring machines - Improbable Podcast https://www.improbable.com/2020/11/27/podcast-episode-1044-boring-machines/ #podcast

In The Pipeline considers vaccine side effects https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/14/vaccine-side-effects-q-and-a

Eric conveys an emotion https://emotioneric.com/ #www

Suggestions that electrons and muons behave differently from Fermilab and CERN may help us explain the three generations of matter (and more) https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/first-results-from-fermilabs-muon-g-2-experiment-strengthen-evidence-of-new-physics #physics

Yesterday, local councils published the candidates in May's elections. Geeks are collecting all the data in one place, at the alarmingly impressive rate of 1,000 elections/day. Join in: https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/

Websites which load quickly get a boost to their position in Google search results. Industry ideas on what gets measured: https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/google-core-web-vitals/ And Google's speed checker: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ #webdev

The fake bus stop https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-fake-bus-stop.html #london

Synthetic Vetiver scent for perfumes
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/25/vetiver #chemisty

Diamond Geezer gets vaccinated
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2021/03/jabbee.html #london

Numpy is more parallel than you might expect https://lwn.net/Articles/847039/ #python

Writing an extension for Lotus 1-2-3 without documentation. https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/lotus123.html