Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

September 3, 2023

Euclidean affine functions and their application to calendar algorithms - Neri - 2023 - Software: Practice and Experience - Wiley Online Library

A good proof that it's still possible to innovate with interesting performance gains for rather mundane tasks. If you're into calendars this is an interesting read.

The Worst Programmer I Know - Dan North & Associates Ltd

A good reminder that you better measure the right thing... otherwise you might consider someone as unproductive while he has in fact a large impact.

Mashing Enter to bypass full disk encryption with TPM, Clevis, dracut and systemd

Interesting and unfortunate security issue... This is admittedly a somewhat unusual setup though, but to be kept in mind I think.