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Why I deleted my Facebook account
After being an early adopter of Facebook and using it for over a decade, I decided to delete my account. Here's why.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,470 posts.
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Idiomatic Redux: Implementation and Intent
Thoughts on what Redux requires, how Redux is intended to be used, and what is possible with Redux
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Migration from Postgres to Datomic
Recently, I migrated my Clojure-driven pet project from PostgreSQL to Datomic. This is Queryfeed , a web application to fetch data from social networks. I’ve been running it for several years considering it as a playground for some experiments. Long ago, it was written in Python, then I ported it to Clojure.
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Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB?
NoSQL databases were the future. MongoDB was the database for “modern” web engineers and used by countless startups. What happened?
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Generating faces of cats using Generative Adversarial Networks
I experimented with generating faces of cats using Generative adversarial networks (GAN). I wanted to try DCGAN, WGAN and WGAN-GP in low and higher resolutions. I used the CAT dataset (yes this is …
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Learning Elixir: My side-project
I believe that to really learn a programming language, I have to get involved in a project. Getting an overview of the Elixir language was…
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Fixing bugs like it's 1988
I grew up in the 80's, the decade home computers went from curiosity to mainstream. In primary school we had several Philips P2000T home com...
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A ReasonReact Tutorial
An in-depth introduction to Reason/OCaml and the official React.js bindings, aimed at JavaScript developers.
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Defending a website with Zip bombs
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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How to optimize React applications that use Redux
It's not very obvious how to optimize react applications that use Redux. But it's actually fairly straightforward. Here's a short guide, along with a few examples.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why Should Anyone Care?
The Crypto market is gaining lots of steam. Gravity-defying price rallies…
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Why I’m leaving 18F
On Election Night 2016, a few hours before the results were fully in, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I’m staying at 18F”. I felt it was…
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I'm not a Woman in Tech
My name is Maria. I happily identify as female. I work as an Agile Coach for a tech company in Cambridge, UK. I am not a woman in tech. I grew up in Pjedsted, a village in Denmark, with my mum and …
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Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets
I recently noticed that Google Docs has a pretty full-featured scripting system called Apps Script . It lets you write JavaScript to do some pretty useful things:
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Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack: TCP Retransmission
At this point we have a TCP/IP stack that is able to communicate to other hosts in the Internet. The implementation so far has been fairly straight-forward, but missing a major feature: Reliability. Namely, our TCP does not guarantee the integrity of the data stream it presents to applications. Even establishing the…
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Undefined Behavior in 2017
Since you talk about the sanitizers and tools like Checked-C, I’ll note there’s also SaferCPlusPlus[1], which is essentially a memory-safe (and data race safe) subset of C++. The idea is that there are a finite number of C++ elements that contribute to memory unsafety, and since the advent of C++11, it is now…
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Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again
The internet is getting noisy. Too noisy. Having grown up in the nineties, with 56k dial-up, I sometimes struggle to understand how little I'm accomplishing today with all the bandwidth I can leverage. There were some key factors that made the old internet so productive, by the way,
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The story of the Slovak national top-level domain
The top level domain of Slovakia is operated by a private company which abuses its monopoly. In the Central Europe it is something unusual.
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The bloat of AMP
AMP had just been popularised at the time I was considering rebuilding this site. It sounded like as a great idea. Faster websites are right up my alley. And who doesn’t want an SEO boost? I mean, I still can’t make Get Cryptolocker show up on Google. And no, I don’t want to buy your Wordpress theme, even if it is…
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Skip grep, use awk
Jonathan Palardy's blog about technology
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Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness”
From Creepy Comments to Sexual Assault I’m shaking as I write this, not quite knowing where to start. As I’m sure Susan Fowler and Niniane, Susan & Leiti probably did, I’ve struggled long and h…