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Why Personas Fail
Personas are useful tools for UX work, so why do they often fail? Find out what pitfalls cause personas to fail, and how to avoid and overcome them.
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Easy laser-cut electronics cases for maker boards (2017)
Downloadable acrylic case designs for the Raspberry Pi Zero+Stackable USB Hub, Orange Pi Lite & Marvell ESPRESSObin.
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Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture
The Qubes OS project has been around for nearly 8 years now, since its original announcement back in April 2010 (and the actual origin date can be traced back to November 11th, 2009, when an initial email introducing this project was sent within ITL internally). Over these years Qubes h...
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Progressive web apps are coming to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem
IMPORTANT: iOS 11.3 final version is now published. Check my updated article on the topic: Progressive Web Apps on iOS are here
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Ursula K. Le Guin on “Spare Time”
In praise of the mundane, unquantifiable, impractical activities that feed creative work and fill life with meaning.
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How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments
Here’s a bit of code from Kernighan’s and Ritchie’s seminal text, The C Programming Language . I’m not sure I’d actually recommend coding this way (as written in the book, the entire program has only one comment), but it’s so darn clever and concise, I can’t help but post it. This snippet is part of a larger program…
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‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs
ATM “ jackpotting ” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand — has long been a threat for banks in Europe and Asia, yet these attacks somehow have eluded U.S. ATM operators. But all that changed this…
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Distribution vs. Innovation
The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. The TiVo Problem In 1999, ReplayTV and TiVo invented the Digital Video Recorder (DVR). It was an incredible innovation — allowing you to “pause” live television. But TiVo had no…
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Understanding the C/C++ memory model
I know that a lot of people struggle with understanding the memory model introduced in C11/C++11. In a recent conversation I was alerted to the existence of this blog post, which while correct (by …
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A placebo can work even when you know it’s a placebo
You may have heard of the “placebo effect,” in which people taking an inactive drug as part of a study actually experience an improvement in their symptoms. As it turns out, the placebo effect ...
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Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time
Right from my undergrad days when I was starting out with machine learning to this date, my admiration for Kaggle continues to grow. In addition to being synonymous with and popularizing data scien…
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Terraforming 1Password
We are excited to finally have all our development, test, staging, and production environments managed with Terraform.
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Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation
The Zirconium group successfully created and operated 28 fake ad agencies to distribute malvertising campaigns through 2017, buying an estimate of 1 billion ad views throughout the year, and reaching
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If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker
Using high speed cameras, it’s possible to record the vibrations of everyday objects caused by nearby sounds and reverse engineer the sounds…essentially turning
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Postgres indexes under the hood
Many software engineers use database indexes every day, but few of us really understand how they work. In this post I’ll explain: How indexing works in Postgres using B-Trees What B-Trees are Why they are a good fit for this problem Indexes in Postgres Postgres actually offers 4 different kinds of indexes for…
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Moving efficiently in the CLI
A cheatsheet for moving efficiently in the CLI!
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Extensions in Firefox 59
Firefox Quantum continues to make news as Mozilla incorporates even more innovative technology into the platform. The development team behind the WebExtensions architecture is no exception, landing a slew of ...
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Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time
The Thunderbird Project is hiring for a software engineer! We’re looking for an amazing developer to come on board to help make Thunderbird the best Email client on the planet! If you are interested you can apply via the link below, following the job description. Here’s the job description: Title: Thunderbird Software…
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Interactive GPU Programming, Part 1: Hello CUDA
Today, fast number crunching means parallel programs that run on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Thanks to the recent highly publicized deep learning and ...
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How JavaScript works: The building blocks of Web Workers
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