The Toilet PaperCan a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?Published 22 Oct 2023Written by Chun Fei Lung 🤔Back to top
Five things that are (not) made in JapanJapan is good at inventing things, but in these five cases it was actually just good at adopting things.
Why “Nigerian” scammers say they are from NigeriaDear Sir/Madam, I am a prince of the Nigerian royal family and I urgently need your help…
“That’s beyond the scope of this paper”A quaint little study on the phrase “that’s beyond the scope…” in academic literature.
Best practices for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scriptsThis week’s paper presents a catalogue of best practices for infrastructure as code programs.
Bad practices in continuous integration pipelines and processesThis catalogue of 79 bad smells can help you make your continuous integration processes less shitty.
Software development wasteMany different types of waste can occur in software development. Here are nine of them.
Potential threats to the validity of LLM-based software engineering researchLarge language models have become a popular tool for software engineering research, but they can also influence the outcome of experiments.
Supersharers of fake news on Twitter during the 2020 US presidential electionSupersharers managed to reach 5.2% of registered voters. In contrast, Russia’s 2016 campaign only reached 3.4% of voters.
How do you use htop in Linux?The htop utility lets you view and manage running processes from a terminal. But how do you use it?
