Essential tips and tricks for your first tech job
Essential tips and tricks for your first tech job ftaj Mon, 02/27/2023 – 03:00 First days at work are scary. I still recall many instances where I lay awake at night before my first day at work, having an internal meltdown over what would happen the next day. Starting a new job is uncharted territory for most people. Even if you’re a veteran in the industry, there’s no denying that there can be a part of you...
AI robot wrestling with open source
AI robot wrestling with open source omichel Sat, 02/25/2023 – 03:00 The ICRA 2023 conference will take place from May 29 to June 2, 2023 in London. It brings together the world’s top robotics researchers from academia and industry. During this event, several competitions are organized to foster new achievements in robotics. Among them, the wrestling competition will confront the best algorithms controlling intelligent humanoid...
5 open source tools to take control of your own data
5 open source tools to take control of your own data wsamh Fri, 02/24/2023 – 03:00 Back in the old days, there was no cloud. Everything was on your phone. Maybe you had a microSD card that you backed up everything on. Eventually, the SD card would stop working, and you lost everything unless you’d saved it on a writable CD or DVD or stored it on your PC. Self-hosting was tough in those days, and it was expensive. Software...
Learn Lua with our new downloadable guide
Learn Lua with our new downloadable guide sethkenlon Thu, 02/23/2023 – 03:00 Lua is a programming language designed for simplicity and performance, used by video game and multimedia companies as a front-end scripting language. It’s also used by the Awesome window manager, the Far file manager, the Howl text editor, and many more open source projects for its clarity and clean design. Lua is embeddable, too, so you can...
How I do automated accessibility testing for my website
How I do automated accessibility testing for my website dmundra Wed, 02/22/2023 – 03:00 This article covers adding accessibility tests to your site using Pa11y (pa11y-ci with axe) and Cypress (with cypress-axe) in GitLab CI/CD. I use a Jekyll website as an example, but any website technology that runs in CI/CD can leverage this setup. Prep your website In addition to getting your website to run in CI/CD, I recommend enabling an...
Mapping the program counter back to the function name in your code
Mapping the program counter back to the function name in your code wcohen Wed, 02/22/2023 – 03:00 Compilers are commonly used to convert human-readable source code into a series of instructions that are directly executed by the computer. A common question is “How do the debuggers and error handlers report the place in the source code where the processor is currently at?” There are various methods to map instructions...
