Tips and tools for improving remote meetings Aaron Parecki’s collection of tips and tools for upping your remote meetings game is spot on (and starts at free!). The Blackmagic ATEM Mini he recommends looks amazing. As I write this, it’s out of stock, which is fine by me because I wasn’t planning to order one now …

Backlinks 2020-03-27 Aaron Parecki’s collection of tips and tools for upping your remote meetings game is spot on (and starts at free!). The Blackmagic ATEM Mini he recommends looks amazing. As I write this, it’s out of stock, which is fine by me because I wasn’t planning to order one now anyhow.

bigslice is Go-based Apache Spark It uses the bigmachine library to spin up instances (supporting AWS right now, but could support others). These systems can be complex to monitor and manage, so I would likely tread carefully, but I like to see efforts like this, especially since Spark doesn’t support Go. Slack’s …

Backlinks 2020-03-26 Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield posted a twitter thread about the wild ride they’ve had since the beginning of March. Slack is among those organizations for which COVID-19 has led to growth.

First party storage deletion in Safari The new version of WebKit, Safari’s browser engine, is taking a strong stance against tracking. While the headline there is third-party cookie blocking, the potentially bigger news is the “7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage”. Unless the user accesses the site, all of their …

Backlinks 2020-03-25 ION distributed RTC system in Go and Flutter

Backlinks 2020-03-25 The new version of WebKit, Safari’s browser engine, is taking a strong stance against tracking. While the headline there is third-party cookie blocking, the potentially bigger news is the “7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage”. Unless the user accesses the site, all of their LocalStorage and …

Screen: Multi-player control screen sharing If you liked Screenhero’s ability (way back when) to screen share with the ability for multiple people to type and to draw on the screen, you’ll love the fact that a founder of Screenhero has now created Screen. It brings back that kind of ability, just when everyone is …

Git 2.26 The GitHub blog breaks down Git 2.26. At Khan Academy, we have a monorepo. This version of Git makes protocol version 2 the standard, which should speed up access for us thanks to the client asking proactively for what it wants. Sparse checkouts might not work entirely well for us, because we have a lot of …

My Git Resources They go here. Backlinks 2020-03-23 The GitHub blog breaks down Git 2.26. 2020-03-23 At Khan Academy, we have a monorepo. This version of Git makes protocol version 2 the standard, which should speed up access for us thanks to the client asking proactively for what it wants. 2020-03-23 Through …