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A picture got my PostgreSQL database to start mining Monero
A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part III]: Why Scarlett Johansson’s Picture Got My Postgres Database to Start Mining Monero
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,419 posts.
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Exercises in Programming Style
In the book club at work, we recently finished reading Exercises in Programming Style by Cristina Videira Lopes. The book consists of a simple program implemented in 33 different programming styles…
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How I've built a profitable Slack bot as a side project in Rails
I've built a Slack anonymous messaging bot in Ruby on Rails and it is profitable. In this blog post I will describe what I did and tools I used to create, promote and monetize a simple SAAS product.
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Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)
How we're building GitLab into the complete DevOps toolchain.
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TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm
I recently found myself dealing with TCP load balancing for a project and I've come to think that generic TCP proxies can't be implemented without substantial pain and how it makes TLS terminating proxies a bad idea.
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Booting Windows NT 4 on a DEC Multia
The Multia feels to me like Digital’s take on a high-end “legacy-free” (at introduction in late 1994) desktop. Its spec sheet includes features unheard of in its contemporaries:
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Linux Raw Sockets
Recently I did a userspace implementation of the Host Identity Protokoll (HIPv2, RFC 7401) with the upcoming Diet Exchange (HIP DEX, IETF draft 6) . Doing so, I've learnt a lot about raw socktet programing under Linux and here I want to share a few things with you.
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Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
NGINX now proxies gRPC traffic, so you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. Manage encryption and load balance gRPC traffic.
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Building a fast Electron app with Rust
When I built Finda , I wanted it to be fast — specifically, to respond to all user input within 16 milliseconds.
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Stack Overflow Culture
This blog post was most directly provoked by this tweet from my friend Rob Conery, explaining why he’s giving up contributing on Stack Overflow. However, it’s been a long time coming. A…
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The Collector’s Fallacy
There’s a tendency in all of us to gather useful stuff and feel good about it. To collect is a reward in itself. As knowledge workers, we’re inclined to look for the next groundbreaking thought, for intellectual stimulation: we pile up promising books and articles, and we store half the internet as bookmarks, just so…
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Breaking a Wine Glass in Python by Detecting the Resonant Frequency
Detecting the Resonant Frequency of an Object with
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More State Machine Love: From Reflection to Statecharts
In “ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and ❤️ the State Machine ,” we built an extremely basic state machine to model a bank account.
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Tail recursion in Python
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
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Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense
There are three different types of inheritance going on. Ontological inheritance is about specialisation: this thing is a specific variety of that thing (a football is a sphere and it has this radius) Abstract data type inheritance is about substitution: this thing behaves in all the ways that thing does and has this…
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Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook
Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do.
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Fertility Rate
Explore changing patterns in fertility worldwide, from birth rates to parental ages, twinning rates, reproductive technologies, and more.
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GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns
Ever since the case of the San Bernadino shooter pitted Apple against the FBI over the unlocking of an iPhone, opinions...
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Protecting Against HSTS Abuse
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a security standard that provides a mechanism for web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections, and to tell web browsers where to go to get that secure version.
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The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization
If my gravestone says, “Sid Meier, developed Civilization,” I’m happy with that. It’s a game I’m happy to be known for.
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Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI
If you develop applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you probably spend a lot of time in the GCP command line. But as we grow our GCP services, the number of commands and flags is growing by leaps and bounds. So today, we’re introducing a new command line interface (CLI) that lets you discover—and use—all these…
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What can we learn from how compilers are designed?
A case study on how compilers decouple components from each other using data.