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Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
This post follows the story of a GitHub intern's experience laser cutting a contribution graph to creating an application that automates the process.
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How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress
Even if you’ve covered Congress for The New York Times for a decade, it can be hard to recognize which member you’ve just spoken with…
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Raising a Very Unusual Round of Funding and Open-Sourcing Our Docs
The Short Version Our new company, SparkToro, LLC has just completed a $1.3mm angel financing. And, because we think our structure might be right for many
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Haxe: Cross-Platform Development's Best-Kept Secret
While the modern programming language Haxe is well-known in some circles, many developers have never heard of it. Yet since it first appeared in 2005, it's been battle-tested by its loyal---if rather quiet---following. It boasts a pragmatic and mature combination of features for development in business, gaming, and ...
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JEP 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript script engine and APIs, and the jjs tool, with the intent to remove them in a future release.
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Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring A.I.
Mozilla’s latest awards will support people and projects that examine the effects of AI on society At Mozilla, one way we support a healthy internet i
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Truth First, or Why You Should Mostly Implement Database-First Designs
In this much overdue article, I will explain why I think that in almost all cases, you should implement a “database first” design in your application’s data models, rather than a …
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Introducing DNS Resolver for Tor
As was mentioned in the original 1.1.1.1 blog post, our policy is to never write client IP addresses to disk and wipe all logs within 24 hours. Still some folks might not want to reveal their IP address to the resolver at all. This is why we are launching a Tor hidden service for our resolver.
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Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and preservation project
Research and cultural heritage institutions are facing increasing costs to provide long-term public access to historically valuable collections of scientific data, born-digital records, and other digital artifacts. With many institutions moving data to cloud services, data sharing and access costs have become more…
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Project Capillary: End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simplified
Developers already use HTTPS to communicate with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). The channel between FCM server endpoint and the device is encrypted with SSL over TCP. However, messages are not encrypted end-to-end (E2E) between the developer server and the user device unless developers take special measures. To this…
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Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available
We announced Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and invited customers to take a look at a preview during re:Invent 2017. Today I am pleased to be able to let you know that EKS is available for use in production form. It has been certified as Kubernetes conformant, and is ready to run your existing […]
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GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source
Our top-tier SaaS and self-managed offerings are now free to educational institutions and open source projects. Find out how to apply.
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MLflow: An Open Source Machine Learning Platform
MLflow is an open-source platform to manage the ML lifecycle, offering tools for data preparation, model training, and deployment at scale.
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Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Budget, or at All
Learn how to predict the timeline, budget, and resources more accurately in your software development project in 7 steps.
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Eclipse Vert.x goes Native
Vert.x | Reactive applications on the JVM
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Direct Coupling of the Higgs Boson to the Top Quark Observed
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018
I recently wrote about some work I’ve done to speed up the Rust compiler . Since then I’ve done some more.
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Observations running 2M headless sessions
Excited to share: 2 million sessions served! Here are best practices for running headless browsers (like Puppeteer) in production
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Fun with SQL: Window Functions in Postgres
Window functions in PostgreSQL are valuable when you want to compare & contrast data between rows. And window functions are key in analytics use cases. This post covers the basic structure of window functions as well as some of the more interesting things you can do with them.
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Apple introduces macOS Mojave
Apple today previewed macOS Mojave, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system.
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Wireless system can power devices inside the body
MIT researchers have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used to deliver drugs, monitor conditions inside the body, or treat disease by stimulating the brain with electricity or light.