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Connecting to Google Sheets with Python
I wrote up my experience using Python to process data from a shared Google Sheets spreadsheet
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Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
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My VM is lighter and safer than your container
My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container Manco et al., SOSP’17 Can we have the improved isolation of VMs, with the efficiency of containers? In today’s paper choice the authors investigate …
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Bypassing Browser Security Warnings with Pseudo Password Fields
It seems that there is no limit to human ingenuity when it comes to working around limitations within one's environment. For example, imagine you genuinely wanted to run a device requiring mains power in the centre of your inflatable pool - you're flat out of luck, right? Wrong! Or
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Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
I've used Linux containers directly and indirectly for years, but I wanted to become more familiar with them. So I wrote some code. This used to be 500 lines of code, I swear, but I've revised it some since publishing; I've ended up with about 70 lines more.
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A Minimalist Guide to SQLite
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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I'm Joining Report URI
What if I told you... that you can get visitors to your site to automatically check for a bunch of security issues. And then, when any are found, those visitors will let you know about it automatically. And the best bit is that you can set this up in a
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Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine
Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and maintain concurrent applications meeting today's requirements. Threads, provided by Java from its first day, are a natural and convenient concurrency construct (putting aside the separate question of communication among threads) which is being…
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Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer
If you have read any of Chuck Moore's work, you know that he is an extreme programmer in the literal sense of the word: a unique philosophy that embraces small, fast, self-contained programs in a spare language and an impressive development environment. But as I read the opening sections of Moore's book Programming a…
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The two questions I ask every interviewer
Applying the engineering process to software interviews
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I can no longer recommend MailChimp
MailChimp doesn’t seem to think double opt-in is a good idea for mailing lists anymore.
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Do we need a third Apache project for columnar data representation?
Apache Parquet and Apache ORC have become a popular file formats for storing data in the Hadoop ecosystem. Their primary value proposition ...
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An Early Engineer's Guide to Early Stock Option Exercise
Advice on the most important decision you’ll make as an early employee.
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An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language Modeling
Language models assign probability values to sequences of words. Those three words that appear right above your keyboard on your phone that try to predict the next word you’ll type are one of the uses of language modeling. In the case shown below, the language model is predicting that “from”, “on” and “it” have a high…
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Why TDD isn't crap
After my recent vitriol about unit testing, a couple of people sent me Why TDD is Crap as a thorough debunking of TDD and unit testing. As someone very interested in software correctness, I ended up writing a debunking of his debunking. Transcriptions will be in quotes, my responses below. Some important notes: From…
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Implementing VisiCalc (2003)
I'm writing this in preparation for the Computer History Museum's The Origins and Impact of VisiCalc panel on April 8th 2003. This is basically a draft and I hope to do some more editing as time permits and you should expect many typos until then. I'm also going to continue to edit and change this as I remember…
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How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS
I wrote a todo app. Unlike TodoMVC (where I took the design from) it doesn’t use JavaScript and instead all interactions are driven by CSS.
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Crafting Interpreters: Classes
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
Open Source Freelancer
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The meaning of AMP
Google’s alternative facts.
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Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity
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The often-overlooked random forest kernel
Ryan Marcus, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Using machine learning to build the next generation of data systems.
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When did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
It’d be difficult to argue against the fact that The Simpsons isn’t quite the show it once was. Even just a quick glance at the IMDb ratings is enough to see that the show is routinely not hitting the highs it did so regularly in the earlier seasons. I’d suggest...
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Language Models, Word2Vec, and Efficient Softmax Approximations
The Word2Vec model has become a standard method for representing words as dense vectors. This is typically done as a preprocessing step, after which the learned vectors are fed into a discriminative model (typically an RNN) to generate predictions such as movie review sentiment, do machine translation, or even…