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One of the factors contributing to Counter-Strike Global Offensive’s (herein “CS:GO”) massive popularity is the ability for anyone to host their own community server. These community servers are free to download and install and allow for a high grade of customization. Server administrators can create and utilize…
Stack-manipulation operators allow the Forth programmer to do arithmetic interactively or in code contained in Forth definitions (e.g., defined functions).
The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The crime gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained the cryptocurrency from…
We study productivity before and during the working from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic, using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company. Hours worked increased, including a rise of 18% outside normal business hours. Average output declined…
Disclaimer: Thoughts expressed here are my own, and not of my employers.
Understanding & mitigating randomly slow writes in PostgreSQL
Earlier today I did a livestream on my YouTube channel to attempt using an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. As with all my testing, I'm documenting everything I learn in this GitHub issue, which is part of the Raspberry Pi PCI Express Card Database website. It's only been a few hours, but…
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 4.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique topic-based threading that combines the best of email and chat to make remote work productive and delightful. Fortune 500 companies, …
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
aka: how I “accidentally” discovered what I already suspected: optimization methods are at the heart of landing rockets.
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Unveiling a scheme flooding vulnerability across major browsers. Learn how it threatens anonymous browsing.
Call Courier from an Auth0 post-user-registration Action to create a profile and send a welcome, with your API key in Action secrets and no webhook route.
Stock-based compensation plans throughout the startup and tech sector are based on “golden handcuffs” – the idea that an employee can’t leave because they would be giving up too much money if they do. I’ve never loved that concept. It feels like staying in a bad marriage for the kids. So I have been involved […]
We want to remove CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: a real human should be able to touch or look at their device to prove they are human, without revealing their identity. Let's explore!
Zig is a general purpose programming language, meaning that if you have in front of you something that looks like a Von Neumann-ish, Turing-complete machine, you should be able to comfortably program it with Zig. Lately there has been a lot of interest in two such (virtual) machines: BPF and WebAssembly.
Biographical, time travel, quantum physics and philosophy films
Creator landing pages explained: courses, product, Sponsor Me and more creator pages.
How to organise and deploy dotfiles using GNU stow.
When designing web applications, (especially the traditional HTML kind), you will at one point have to figure out how to log a user in and keep them logged in between requests.
I have heard the term "digital natives" applied to todays youth, but when it comes down to the meat and potatoes, they do not know jack shit.
I have long held the opinion that you should avoid Git LFS if possible. Since people keeping asking me why, I figured I'd capture my thoughts in a blog post so I have something to refer them to.
