The Stack - Week 09/2017

Agile

• Tuleap - sounds too good to be true, probably doesn’t work as advertised

Books

• The Electrical experimenter - an archive of 1916-1917 issues of Hugo Gernsback’s magazine about amateur radio stuff, electric gadgets, science and other stuff. Fascinating read and so much more detailed than contemporary magazines, although I can’t check the facts :P

Debugging

• cs01/gdbgui: A modern, browser-based frontend to gdb (gnu debugger)

Language

• Master Foreign Numbers - fun exercise, harder than I thought
• Are We Different People in Different Languages?
• The Vatican’s Latinist - maybe this was the guy my Latin teacher at school had as an inspiration to tell us the language was not dead

Science

• The GRIM test — a method for evaluating published research - /o\

Unicode

• A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode
• A Practical Guide to Character Sets and Encodings

Web Development

• urlscan.io - A bit more info that developer console, with the added benefit you don’t have to visit the site

Wifi

• 802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks