<commit_before>time: "Sep 07, 2021"
subject: "Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconception"
draft: false
description: "This issue is arrived one day later than our usual schedule due to US holiday. We're back now and hope everyone had a great week despite of the holiday or not"

links:
  - url: https://www.biteinteractive.com/picturing-git-conceptions-and-misconceptions/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
    title: "Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconception"
    description: |
       present a simple way of looking at what Git really is and what it really does. I do not claim that this way of looking at Git represents absolute “facts” in any hard and fast or literal sense. But I contend that if you conceive of Git in the way that I’m going to suggest, if you substitute these conceptions of Git for any misconceptions you might have now, you’ll be a much happier and more fluid Git user.

  - url: "https://retool.com/startups?utm_source=sponsor&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=betterlink.dev"
    title: Get Retool free for up to a year and $160,000 in startup discounts
    description: |
      Why spend so much time on internal tooling, CRUD apps, and dashboards built from scratch? Retool is a 10x faster way to build custom internal tools, and now it's free for early-stage startups to use for up to a year. They've also created a deal book worth $160K in startup discounts to give startups access to the tools they need for great internal tools, for free. [Get your discount](https://retool.com/startups?utm_source=sponsor&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=betterlink.dev).
    category: ['sponsor']

  - url: https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/
    title: "An Introduction to JQ"
    description: "
      We work with JSON all day long. jq is a populater tool to helps extract and transform JSON, think of awk/seed but for JSON.
      In this article, , Adam's going to go over the basics building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works"

  - url: https://aiven.io/blog/solving-the-knapsack-problem-in-postgresql
    title: "Solving the knapsack problem in PostgreSQL"
    description: |
      The knapsack problem: how to use limited luggage space to pack only and all the items you're most likely to need? Enter PostgreSQL! Come and find out how to use the world's best open source database to help you pack.

  - url: https://matduggan.com/how-does-apple-private-relay-work/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
    title: "How does Apple Private Relay Work?"
    description: |
      Private Relay is an attempt by Apple to change the way traffic is routed from user to internet service and back. Kind of like a proxy.
      They used CGNAT behinds the scene.

  - url: https://www.rodrigoaraujo.me/posts/lets-build-an-lc-3-virtual-machine/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
    title: "Let’s build an LC-3 Virtual Machine"
    description: "Virtual Machines (VMs) are a magical thing: a computer being emulated inside a physical computer. Since this emulated computer isn’t physical, we call it “virtual”. Such a simple description for something so powerful.
      If you just want to see the final source code, [here is the repo](https://github.com/digorithm/LC-3-Rust). It's ver approachable."

  - url: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-08-30/high-rate-of-paging.html
    title: "Analyzing a High Rate of Paging"
    description: |
      When server is on fire, what tool you reach to view metrics, or what metrics to look at?
      This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. No editing, spell checking, or comment

  - url: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/locality-sensitive-hashing/
    title: "Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH): The Practical and Illustrated Guide"
    description: |
      Amazon uses LFS similarity search to compare customers, finding new product recommendations based on the purchasing history of their highest-similarity customers.
      Every time you use Google, you perform a similarity search between your query/search term — and Google’s indexed internet.
      In this article, we learn a practical way to impelemt that.

  - url: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reed-solomon-for-programmers/
    title: "Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers"
    description: |


  - url: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/refactoring-css-optimizing-size-performance-part3/
    title: "Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance"

  - url: http://web.archive.org/web/20210902153602/https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-chip-production-why-hard-to-make-semiconductors/<commit_msg>new link<commit_after>time: "Sep 07, 2021"
subject: "Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconception"
draft: false
description: "This issue is arrived one day later than our usual schedule due to US holiday. We're back now and hope everyone had a great week despite of the holiday or not"

links:
  - url: https://www.biteinteractive.com/picturing-git-conceptions-and-misconceptions/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
    title: "Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconception"
    description: |
       present a simple way of looking at what Git really is and what it really does. I do not claim that this way of looking at Git represents absolute “facts” in any hard and fast or literal sense. But I contend that if you conceive of Git in the way that I’m going to suggest, if you substitute these conceptions of Git for any misconceptions you might have now, you’ll be a much happier and more fluid Git user.

  - url: "https://retool.com/startups?utm_source=sponsor&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=betterlink.dev"
    title: Get Retool free for up to a year and $160,000 in startup discounts
    description: |
      Why spend so much time on internal tooling, CRUD apps, and dashboards built from scratch? Retool is a 10x faster way to build custom internal tools, and now it's free for early-stage startups to use for up to a year. They've also created a deal book worth $160K in startup discounts to give startups access to the tools they need for great internal tools, for free. [Get your discount](https://retool.com/startups?utm_source=sponsor&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=betterlink.dev).
    category: ['sponsor']

  - url: https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/
    title: "An Introduction to JQ"
    description: "
      We work with JSON all day long. jq is a populater tool to helps extract and transform JSON, think of awk/seed but for JSON.
      In this article, , Adam's going to go over the basics building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works"

  - url: https://aiven.io/blog/solving-the-knapsack-problem-in-postgresql
    title: "Solving the knapsack problem in PostgreSQL"
    description: |
      The knapsack problem: how to use limited luggage space to pack only and all the items you're most likely to need? Enter PostgreSQL! Come and find out how to use the world's best open source database to help you pack.

  - url: https://matduggan.com/how-does-apple-private-relay-work/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
    title: "How does Apple Private Relay Work?"
    description: |
      Private Relay is an attempt by Apple to change the way traffic is routed from user to internet service and back. Kind of like a proxy.
      They used CGNAT behinds the scene.

  - url: https://www.rodrigoaraujo.me/posts/lets-build-an-lc-3-virtual-machine/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
    title: "Let’s build an LC-3 Virtual Machine"
    description: "Virtual Machines (VMs) are a magical thing: a computer being emulated inside a physical computer. Since this emulated computer isn’t physical, we call it “virtual”. Such a simple description for something so powerful.
      If you just want to see the final source code, [here is the repo](https://github.com/digorithm/LC-3-Rust). It's ver approachable."

  - url: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-08-30/high-rate-of-paging.html
    title: "Analyzing a High Rate of Paging"
    description: |
      When server is on fire, what tool you reach to view metrics, or what metrics to look at?
      This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. No editing, spell checking, or comment

  - url: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/locality-sensitive-hashing/
    title: "Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH): The Practical and Illustrated Guide"
    description: |
      Amazon uses LFS similarity search to compare customers, finding new product recommendations based on the purchasing history of their highest-similarity customers.
      Every time you use Google, you perform a similarity search between your query/search term — and Google’s indexed internet.
      In this article, we learn a practical way to impelemt that.

  - url: https://codingnest.com/the-little-things-comparing-floating-point-numbers/
    title: "The Little Things: Comparing Floating Point Numbers"
    description: |
      There is a lot of confusion about floating-point numbers and a lot of bad advice going around. IEEE-754 floating-point numbers are a complex beast[1], and comparing them is not always easy, but in this post, we will take a look at different approaches and their tradeoffs.

  - url: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/refactoring-css-optimizing-size-performance-part3/
    title: "Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance"

  - url: http://web.archive.org/web/20210902153602/https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-chip-production-why-hard-to-make-semiconductors/
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