I have been working on an idea for a LMS project I am involved with.  The general problem we are trying to solve is to provide a customise learning path for users  Here are some of the videos I found relevant and quick research notes.  #Machine Learning with WordPress(not as much about wordpress as I thought it would be but a nice intro)  #Building a Machine Learning Platform at QuoraVery good consideration – must relisten to it again....

Technical debt is the cost of your management shortcuts compounded with interest. It is a fancy term to try to explain to the management that bad long term technical decisions were made and that now they need to bank for it. Often management is responsible for the technical debt, sometime it is a shared responsibility with the technical staff sometime it is a mix of both – in any case – whatever this is – it will always have a cost to fix it – and a cost to not fix it – which is greater is really the main question....

Bunch of resources for side project on gaming. (got 2 boys at home who have their eyes locked on mario – so I just want to use that to open their eyes on it works and make some mods and some cool evolution of the game with them…) here is what I have found that look like the more promising for quick development of 2D arcade games: Enchant JS Seems like a basic library for simple games....

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks....

TL;DR:  AMP is Google tech for loading pages quickly on mobile. Basically AMP is the Google version of Facebook Instant Articles. Google is pushing this tech as a mean to increase the overall volume of mobile Ad inventory – essentially more page views means more revenues for publishers and Google via DoubleClick. Solving page load issues can be done without AMP and should be probably done without it.  Google tech selling page for AMPIn short: “AMP provides a great user experience across many platforms” – all the rest is just how to implement it....

Making Experts Makers and Makers Experts Gamified Control? China’s Social Credit Systems https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8874-gamified_control  Demystifying Network Cards Things you always wanted to know about NIC drivers https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9159-demystifying_network_cards  Everything you want to know about x86 microcode, but might have been afraid to ask An introduction into reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it yourself https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9058-everything_you_want_to_know_about_x86_microcode_but_might_have_been_afraid_to_ask  Protecting Your Privacy at the Border Traveling with Digital Devices in the Golden Age of Surveillance...

Watch this video:  <div class=‘avia-video avia-video-16-9 av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed ' itemprop=“video” itemtype=“https://schema.org/VideoObject" data-original_url=‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw’ >  None of the technologies involved in this video are too far away from what is available today.  When you think about all the data available from face recognition, and geo-localisation – available from all major corporation – from Google to Apple including Facebook or Amazon – just to name the big ones – it does make you think....

Literally Probably wont do that for now – that’s like super expensive for what it is – meaning just a keyboard – but would really be a great stuff to build. I mean I checked this site : KBDfanswhich is referred in the video – and yeah.. what can I say these mechanical keyboards parts are freaking awesome! Any of you out there did that already?

so yeah… I know it was supposed to post everyday. Well, it is apparently not 100% there yet. I know it is coming so I am not too worried. Maybe a bit disappointed with myself. The whole idea of /var/log was to create a space online where I could somehow journal my work, my research, my idea, draft my articles without holding it all either on my computer or in my head…...

Some elements on thoughts on designing / building a company’s web portal.  – is dependant on the internal business process – can help cut from 30% to 60% inefficiencies – Requires good collaboration between designers and client – is a thing since the 90’s – today you can basically integrate both and ERP / Mobile App / CRM / CMS to deliver a 360 integration of the business needs and customer needs...

Yesterday I had a conversation with a designer who made a career change to become a real-estate sales person.  yep – you heard well.  From panda-hat pencil-in-hand graphic artist and logo designer, he went to sell cinderblocks lots…  What happened? well, unsurprisingly – he got sick of clients – he got tired of not getting paid – and he got tired of having the very people who hired him for a job starting to tell him how he should do his job....

Mondays don’t have to suck but sometime they do… which I guess is fine and was to be expected. Yet – when you didn’t sleep overnight and still have to break your head over tons of things… some days are just not easy. The secret – is to zoom out. When I manage to zoom out on the scale of a decade – then the fact the tramway was late or that I couldnt get a coffee in the morning, or this bug in the code is become such a tiny ridicule element that can easily be overcome....

Research notes / Watchlist for later review on infosec and privacy and anonymity – note that these two are different.  #Tor Developer Isis Lovecruft lectures on anonymity systems at Radboud Universiteit https://youtu.be/xGIE7KTJiBY #Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA – Tom Lowenthal  #DEFCON 14: How to Create an Anonymous Identity  #DEFCON 20: Can You Track Me Now? Government And Corporate Surveillance Of Mobile Geo-Location Data...

I am very good at starting things. It wasn’t always true – I used to waste a lot of time to ponder and get to work – now in the past decade I think I have brought my capacity to set up a new project to a real good level – and kickstarting things into motions. Now – I need to move to the next level – which is perfecting the finish....

Resistance and friction is what make the daily grind hard. Let your creativity flow more easily by removing all the block from the roads so you can focus on the journey and not on perpetually cleaning up the mess that getting in your way. Writing : How I write I use Notational Velocity (Windows / Linux equivalent) – Publishing – DeskPM but also setting up a place like /var/log on my site has remove a bunch of psychological road blocks that were getting in the way....

ok, inspired by a friend, I have decided to make some changes in the way i organise my content on this blog. Separating pure content (in depth article, how-tos, reference post) from the blog in a more casual sense of word. In a follow up to post “We have stopped blogging” – I want to get back to some regular writing. Less formal, more personal, maybe informative maybe not – I don’t know yet, what I know is I want it to be place where I can share with you an open conversation....

We have stopped blogging Once blogging was a thing Not a thing to talk about business But a place where people would share ideas thoughts moments emotions stories with each others. I think we should do more of that We should start blogging again. We should bring this conversation back. We left to the Facebooks and the Twitters take the control of the conversations (and no, I am not ranting against these platforms, for a change… see, I actually think Facebook and Twitter and social media as a whole has enabled a lot more people to get in touch with each other… the fact that they do other very bad thing is a different story, but fundamentally, as a conversational platform, they are pretty good…)...

chkrootkit – Linux rootkit scanner What it does : Find rootkits Where to find it : in your distribution – or on chkrootkit.org Malware protection Option 1: ISPProtect – 90 euro / year but worth it. Where to find it : ispprotect.com Step #1: Get a licence Step #2: Download and install and run Then indicate your key number or trial if you want a trial version. Indicate /var/www to start the scan on the web installs....

Voice and IOT Amazon Echo, Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomePod and Siri (and Microsoft Cortana) are all fighting to control the voice market. While they get full respect for doing so, I am not gonna say I am particularly trusting any of these companies to provide us with the best level of privacy, service and control over what we do with our devices and how is the data used. Therefore I am compiling here some resources which I’ll probably update as we go on interesting DIY tools to build similar devices....

Not to anybody. You cannot be interesting to anybody. Whatever medium you are using to express yourself – it won’t work with every human being. So instead of trying to please the world – go make sure the people your information is intended to reach – actually catch their attention. If you don’t know – just pick one and go with it. You will have an other opportunity tomorrow to write for the other crowd you have ignored today....