All the hardware and software used at Laracasts
Here’s an exhaustive list of all the tools Jeffrey Way uses in his daily workflow at Laracasts.
Read more [laracasts.com]
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Measuring caffeine intake at Spatie
My colleague Alex finished a very cool sideproject. Using a Raspberry Pi he can now measure how many cups of coffee we drink at the office
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
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Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?
Last week, I started using a M1 powered MacBook Air as my primary computer. It feels much faster that my previous 16" MacBook Pro with Intel processor. Here's a good post on how Apple made their processors so fast.
Read more [debugger.medium.com]
Time to upgrade your monitor
Nikita Prokopov shares some good insights on why having a good monitor is important. MacOS users: your fonts will look much better with font smoothing turned off.
Read more [tonsky.me]
How Music Was Made On Super Nintendo
Limiting breeds creativity.
Visualizing PHPUnit Tests
In an article on the Hackster.io site explains in detail how he made a nice visualization of unit test results. Pretty cool what you can do with a raspberry pi, some LEDS and a couple of scripts.
I wanted to create a desktop gadget to visualize the progress of unit tests run via PHPUnit.I've named this project PHPUnicorn (by combining "PHPUnit" with "Unicorn pHAT").
https://www.hackster.io/colinodell/phpunicorn-visualizing-phpunit-tests-896208
Tesla Energy
Tesla is not just an automotive company, it’s an energy innovation company. Tesla Energy is a critical step in this mission to enable zero emission power generation.http://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/teslaenergy
Watch Elon Musk announce the Tesla Powerwall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKORsrlN-2k
The best 6TB hard drives according to Backblaze
Backblaze is transitioning from using 4 TB hard drives to 6 TB hard drives in the Storage Pods we will be deploying over the coming months. With over 10,000 hard drives needing to be purchased over the next several months, the choice of which 6TB hard drive to use is critical.https://www.backblaze.com/blog/6-tb-hard-drive-face-off/
Backblaze needs to store 130 TB of incoming customer data every day.