First week timeshifting to have greater overlap with IST and EU timezones

IndieAuth

IndieAuth is built upon OAuth 2.0 and OpenID. Authenticating via the IndieWeb requires your website URL as your Id. To obtain authorization you will be directed to your chosen IndieAuth server (OAuth provider). The IndieAuth Server can be self hosted, or rely on a hosted option such as indieauth.com

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Week 1 of digital detox

Week of new experiments

Algorithm

Simple Sorts

Selection Sort

Sort a list of []Type by searching for the smallest (or largest) element of the array, removing the found element from the list, and copying it to a new list.

Time Complexity: $O(n^2)$

Example

 1func selectionSort(list []int) []int {
 2	newList := []int{}
 3	for range list {
 4 …

Problem

I'm a manager of a team that maintains a large scale CIAM solution. One of the many things that the platform does is allow users to preform account actions via email, such as reseting password, or performing email verification. We received a heads up from our infosec team that there would be changes to our …

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of 'optimal experience' have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives.

Advice on how to negotiate from a former hostage negotiator.

The week of Gumma's funeral

Abstract

I invest too much of my time into low value, low reward activities. This can be doom scrolling Twitter, reading the latest drama on reddit, or getting sucked into a rabbit hole on Youtube. Sometimes this takes the form of playing a mindless game, or getting sucked into binge watching something on Netflix. I've …