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The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
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How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works
Autocomplete search added to MDN Web Docs allows you to quickly jump to the document you're looking for by typing parts of the document title
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Use Spreadsheets Everywhere
Spreadsheets, they’re everywhere. Following closely behind email and word processor documents, spreadsheets are possibly the most ubiquitous tool for knowledge workers. From simple lists to complex financial modeling, spreadsheets are the backbone of how modern business gets done. This isn’t a new phenomenon…
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New Leadership at Blizzard
A message for the Blizzard community.
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Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
This beginner guide will help you understand how convolution neural networks (CNNs) work and what they are useful for.
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Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code
JFrog finds a new supply chain attack targeting python developers using the PyPI repository
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Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster
The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States’ roads, highways, and digital infrastructure—contains a poorly crafted provision that could create new surveillance requirements for many within the blockchain ecosystem. This could...
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We Switched to Mattermost
Secure workloads with Identity-First Reachability. NetFoundry closes inbound ports and replaces VPNs for simpler, zero-trust networking.
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Docker container security cheat sheet
Discover essential Docker Security Best Practices for DevOps engineers and security professionals. Cheat sheet included for quick implementation!
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Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall
Google Tensor is our first custom-built SoC specifically for Pixel phones, and it will power the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro later this fall.
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Six Years of Professional Clojure
TL;DR Clojure is a great programming languages due to its functional nature, lack of objects / concentration on primitive values
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Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3
Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python programming language.
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Savings are now more liquid and part of “M1 money”
Money is marvelously nuanced. Because different assets can be used as money, we need several categories and definitions to keep track of it. M1 describes the most liquid and widely...
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A wiper attack paralyzed the Iranian train system
In the midst of an epic troll on a country-wide railway system, we discovered a new threat actor and their reusable wiper called Meteor.
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Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby
For the past year, the [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we're sharing the source code for it. It lives alongside the existing code for Sorbet on GitHub, mostly in the `compiler/` folder:
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Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver
The Carlson School of Management research showed replicated and expanded on what was previously found: bronze medalists were more likely to exhibit a smile than silver medalists, while gold medalists were happier than other medalists.
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Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir
A case study of how Elixir is being used at X-Plane.
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How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories…
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Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots
Optimize OpenZFS snapshots. Learn which data benefits from snapshots, how long to keep them, and how to avoid performance bottlenecks.
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Command line tools for productive programmers
In this article, the author shares six command-line tools that can enhance productivity for programmers. These tools include `broot` for navigating...
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First detection of light from behind a black hole
Fulfilling a prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, researchers report the first-ever recordings of X-ray emissions from the far side of a black hole.
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Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring
Update (August 23, 2023) – The retirement announced in this blog post is now complete. There are no more EC2 instances running with EC2-Classic networking. Update (July 29, 2021) – Added link to the Support Automation Workflow document & clarified link to AWS MGN pricing. Also updated the list of recommended instance…
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Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers
The lie from ad tech is that there's no such thing as a premium publisher and all ad views are basically the same.