This Week I Learned - Week #41 2019
This Week I Learned -
* Windows Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on the cloud.
* VS Code extension “ARM Template Viewer” lets you visualize your ARM Template code
* Microsoft Antimalware for Azure is not supported in Linux
* Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) was created by Google in partnership with Linux Foundation to encourage the development and collaboration of cloud native solutions. Cloud Native Trail Map is CNCF's recommended path through the cloud native landscape.
* Using target="_blank" with an external link to have it open in a new tab or window can compromise your website if external link has malicious intent. The whole parent web page can be accessed from the page opened through the anchor attribute target="_blank". Almost all browsers don't support access to the DOM if the domain of the website is not the same though the window object of the parent website can still be accessed. An attacker can redirect your page to a clone of your website. This issue can be avoided by using: rel="noopener noreferrer". To prevent misuse with JavaScript, use this -
const newWindow = window.open('https://gosink.in');
newWindow.opener = null;
* caniemail.com can confirm on what email clients, a HTML or CSS feature is supported
* Beautiful Soup is a Python package for parsing HTML and XML documents.
* Turn Bluetooth off when you're not using it. Minimizing your Bluetooth usage minimizes your exposure to very real vulnerabilities. That includes an attack called BlueBorne, announced this week by the security firm Armis, which would allow any affected device with Bluetooth turned on to be attacked through a series of vulnerabilities. The flaws aren't in the Bluetooth standard itself, but in its implementation in all sorts of software. Windows, Android, Linux, and iOS have been vulnerable to BlueBorne in the past. Millions could still be at risk - WIRED
* Expose your ignorance daily, have side projects.
* Embrace confusion, ambiguity, and questions.
* Inverted smiley is the flipped version of 🙂. It is commonly used to convey irony, sarcasm, joking, or a sense of goofiness or silliness or passive aggression or frustrated resignation. Its intent can be similar to the bemused Oh well! or the shruggie emoticon, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. This emoji can also be used to communicate a comical level of misfortune, showing the user is “smiling through the pain.” In some contexts, there’s almost a palpable undercurrent of ugh or “why me?” associated with it. This emoji is for when someone is frustrated with their circumstances, but has to muscle through it anyway.
* The Comic Sans font was created by Vincent Connare in October 1994 while helping to develop an easy-to-use operating system for Microsoft. While sketching a talk bubble for “a cute little yellow dog,” Mr. Connare had an epiphany: “Dogs don’t talk in Times New Roman!” He decided the program needed a new font, zanier and more childlike, for which he took inspiration from comic books and graphic novels. The spacing, or kerning, between its letters is uneven because it wasn’t designed for print. To type traditionalists, use of the font can signify frivolity or even disrespect. It is “willfully idiosyncratic,” with its crooked lines and unevenly distributed weight. "It reads like a Mickey Mouse cartoonish voice. It has this weird sense of dislocation". It is recommended by the British Dyslexia Association. In a post on its website, the American Institute of Graphic Arts said Comic Sans helps readers with disabilities because of its “character disambiguation” and “variation in letter heights.” - NY Times
* Trail-based comics are a radical departure from the old left-to-right and up-to-down protocol of traditional printed comics
* Developing great strategic thinking skills requires you to gain exposure to strategic roles, synthesize broad information, participate in a culture of curiosity, and gather experiences that allow you to identify patterns and connect the dots in novel ways. That’s why high-potential and leadership development programs often include job rotations, cross-functional projects, and face time with senior leadership — these all accelerate the development of strategic thinking.
* HBR: How to counteract feelings of being overwhelmed:
1. Pinpoint the source.
2. Set boundaries around your time and workload.
3. Challenge your perfectionism.
4. Outsource or delegate.
5. Challenge your assumptions.
* More than 90% of historical carbon emissions since the industrial revolution are the cumulative emissions of rich western countries and Japan. Of the industrialised countries, the USA is easily the biggest emitter (16.5 metric tonnes) followed by Australia (15.4 metric tonnes), Canada (15.2 metric tonnes), Russia (11.9 metric tonnes), Japan (9.5 metric tonnes) and Germany (8.9 metric tonnes). The greatest carbon emitters are small oil producers and island economies, led by Qatar (43.9 metric tonnes). India's annual per capita carbon emissions are 1.7 metric tonnes - Swaminomics
* India is home to about 1270 species of birds
* Windows Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on the cloud.
* VS Code extension “ARM Template Viewer” lets you visualize your ARM Template code
* Microsoft Antimalware for Azure is not supported in Linux
* Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) was created by Google in partnership with Linux Foundation to encourage the development and collaboration of cloud native solutions. Cloud Native Trail Map is CNCF's recommended path through the cloud native landscape.
* Using target="_blank" with an external link to have it open in a new tab or window can compromise your website if external link has malicious intent. The whole parent web page can be accessed from the page opened through the anchor attribute target="_blank". Almost all browsers don't support access to the DOM if the domain of the website is not the same though the window object of the parent website can still be accessed. An attacker can redirect your page to a clone of your website. This issue can be avoided by using: rel="noopener noreferrer". To prevent misuse with JavaScript, use this -
const newWindow = window.open('https://gosink.in');
newWindow.opener = null;
* caniemail.com can confirm on what email clients, a HTML or CSS feature is supported
* Beautiful Soup is a Python package for parsing HTML and XML documents.
* Turn Bluetooth off when you're not using it. Minimizing your Bluetooth usage minimizes your exposure to very real vulnerabilities. That includes an attack called BlueBorne, announced this week by the security firm Armis, which would allow any affected device with Bluetooth turned on to be attacked through a series of vulnerabilities. The flaws aren't in the Bluetooth standard itself, but in its implementation in all sorts of software. Windows, Android, Linux, and iOS have been vulnerable to BlueBorne in the past. Millions could still be at risk - WIRED
* Expose your ignorance daily, have side projects.
* Embrace confusion, ambiguity, and questions.
* Inverted smiley is the flipped version of 🙂. It is commonly used to convey irony, sarcasm, joking, or a sense of goofiness or silliness or passive aggression or frustrated resignation. Its intent can be similar to the bemused Oh well! or the shruggie emoticon, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. This emoji can also be used to communicate a comical level of misfortune, showing the user is “smiling through the pain.” In some contexts, there’s almost a palpable undercurrent of ugh or “why me?” associated with it. This emoji is for when someone is frustrated with their circumstances, but has to muscle through it anyway.
* The Comic Sans font was created by Vincent Connare in October 1994 while helping to develop an easy-to-use operating system for Microsoft. While sketching a talk bubble for “a cute little yellow dog,” Mr. Connare had an epiphany: “Dogs don’t talk in Times New Roman!” He decided the program needed a new font, zanier and more childlike, for which he took inspiration from comic books and graphic novels. The spacing, or kerning, between its letters is uneven because it wasn’t designed for print. To type traditionalists, use of the font can signify frivolity or even disrespect. It is “willfully idiosyncratic,” with its crooked lines and unevenly distributed weight. "It reads like a Mickey Mouse cartoonish voice. It has this weird sense of dislocation". It is recommended by the British Dyslexia Association. In a post on its website, the American Institute of Graphic Arts said Comic Sans helps readers with disabilities because of its “character disambiguation” and “variation in letter heights.” - NY Times
* Trail-based comics are a radical departure from the old left-to-right and up-to-down protocol of traditional printed comics
* Developing great strategic thinking skills requires you to gain exposure to strategic roles, synthesize broad information, participate in a culture of curiosity, and gather experiences that allow you to identify patterns and connect the dots in novel ways. That’s why high-potential and leadership development programs often include job rotations, cross-functional projects, and face time with senior leadership — these all accelerate the development of strategic thinking.
* HBR: How to counteract feelings of being overwhelmed:
1. Pinpoint the source.
2. Set boundaries around your time and workload.
3. Challenge your perfectionism.
4. Outsource or delegate.
5. Challenge your assumptions.
* More than 90% of historical carbon emissions since the industrial revolution are the cumulative emissions of rich western countries and Japan. Of the industrialised countries, the USA is easily the biggest emitter (16.5 metric tonnes) followed by Australia (15.4 metric tonnes), Canada (15.2 metric tonnes), Russia (11.9 metric tonnes), Japan (9.5 metric tonnes) and Germany (8.9 metric tonnes). The greatest carbon emitters are small oil producers and island economies, led by Qatar (43.9 metric tonnes). India's annual per capita carbon emissions are 1.7 metric tonnes - Swaminomics
* India is home to about 1270 species of birds
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