Ultimately, as the accuracy of the portable clock continues to get better, time could be used to resolve height differences of just 1 centimeter, the study authors said.
This is a great start. Looking forward for the applications in navigation and engineering.
I’ve been fiddling around with Hugo and decided to migrate the site from Jekyll. I also transferred the site to Netlify from GitLab and so far, the experience has been great. I’m still familiarizing with Hugo and making some customizations. This should be fun.
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most precise measurements of the expansion rate of the universe since it was first calculated nearly a century ago. Intriguingly, the results are forcing astronomers to consider that they may be seeing evidence of something unexpected at work in the universe.
“Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.” - Isaac Asimov
ASCII art has been entertaining as always. It will always find it’s way attracting people.
But how do the photons get together? The physicists’ theoretical model suggests that as a single photon moves through the cloud of rubidium, it hops from one atom to another, “like a bee flitting between flowers,” the press release explains. One photon can briefly bind to an atom, forming a hybrid photon-atom or polariton. If two of these polaritons meet in the cloud, they interact. When they reach the edge of the cloud, the atoms stay behind and the photons sail forward, still bound together. Add more photons and same phenomenon gives rise to triplets.
Tom Preston-Werner:
I love writing. I get a kick out of sharing my thoughts with others. The act of transforming ideas into words is an amazingly efficient way to solidify and refine your thoughts about a given topic. But as much as I enjoy blogging, I seem to be stuck in a cycle of quitting and starting over. Before starting the current iteration, I resolved to do some introspection to determine the factors that were leading to this destructive pattern.
I just stumbled from this post from 2008 which sparks the creation of Jekyll. Approching blogging from a software development perspective turned out a very great idea.
The article is a good read.
When a user adds a custom domain to their Pages site, no validation was being performed to ensure the domain was owned by that user. This issue allows an attacker to discover DNS records already pointing to the GitLab Page IP address which haven’t been claimed and potentially hijack them. This issue impacts all users who have created and then deleted custom domains using GitLab Pages, but still have the DNS records active.
As of now, adding custom domains is disabled. Implementing the validation mechanism for this is really great for security and assures the owner of the domain.
This search engine got my attention today. The idea of aggregating the results of other search engines is great and it’s free software too. I also like the minimalist interface.
I’ve been a long time user of DuckDuckGo and I’m giving searx a try this time for a new experience.
It’s that time again to pay tribute to this very great man.
Sheldon Cooper on Newton’s bust:
..wait escuse me, it’s much more christmassy than anything you’ve put on the tree. December 25, 1642, Julian calendar, Sir Isaac Newton is born.
… no, Sir Isaac goes at the top of the tree.
Merry Newtonmas!
I’ve been meaning to build a website for a while now to have my own space in the internet. Almost seven years ago, I had taken an interest in web development by building wapsites1. Viewing the source code of a site through a browser and taking any information and design ideas was my starting ground. After spending my time in coding, I discovered blogging. I’ve tried different blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Tumblr, and Wordpress. With these platforms at hand, making a blog is very easy because all I need to do is select some templates and I’m ready to post articles. This is not challenging for me.
Recently, I found out about these open-source static site generators such as Jekyll, Hugo, Hexo, and others. Using these brings back the excitement because I am learning again by coding and helps me understand what web development is all about. In addition, I now have more control of all the site’s content.
GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Netlify, etc. are the savior in starting this static website. The most important feature of these services is that the hosting is free. I don’t have any knowledge about Git so I decided to put some time into it and I really enjoyed learning basic Git principles.
Jekyll is really simple. It generates HTML files within the ‘_site’ folder which is the one accessible as the website directory. Posts are written in Markdown. YAML front matter and variables were enough for me in adding features for the website.
After all this, the only problem for me is to produce more content. My curiosity is what I think will drive me in learning more about web development and to produce more writings in the future.
Update: As of February 27, 2018, the site has migrated to Hugo.
Wapsite is a website designed for mobiles. ↩︎