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Get better at Googling
10 Google search operators every developer should know: exact-match quotes, OR, minus, wildcards, site:, filetype:, number ranges, before: and after:.
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The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm
Our algorithm has the peculiar property that, roughly speaking, the longer the pattern is, the faster the algorithm goes. Furthermore, the algorithm is ``sublinear'' in the sense that it generally looks at fewer characters than it passes. The algorithm is described in
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Some useful regular expressions for programmers
In my blog post, My programming setup, I stressed how important regular expressions are to my programming activities. Regular expressions can look intimidating and outright ugly. However, they should not be underestimated. Someone asked for examples of regular expressions that I rely upon. Here a few. It is commonly…
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GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors
The trustworthiness of our platform is crucial, and our team is committed to developer productivity and Actions performing the way we intended.
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Filecoin, StorJ and the problem with decentralized storage (2019)
Blockchains for everything Decentralized storage services such as Filecoin and StorJ seek to disrupt the data-storage industry, using blockchain tokens to create a competitive marketplace that can …
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Noise in Creative Coding
Noise is an indispensable tool for creative coding. We use it to generate all kinds of organic effects like clouds, landscapes and contours. Or to move and distort objects with a more lifelike behaviour.
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Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
In this article, the author explores the concept of "brown" and "green" programming languages based on the Stack Overflow Devel...
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Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 21.04 is here, with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu. […]
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Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
After long months of work by a dedicated team of enthusiasts, today we are proud to announce the release of the beta version of Zellij
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Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop
In a previous article, I discussed my intention of Building an E-Ink Laptop . In this article, I want to introduce EI2030 and how we are building an open-source eink laptop and its challenges.
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Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function
Microsoft Excel the programming language is evolving. With the recent release of LAMBDA, users can now define new functions in the program’s formula language. Learn about the capability and its role in the transformation of spreadsheet formulas.
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How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)
Changing directories is an extremely frequent activity during my everyday work as a knowledge worker running calculations, analyzing data, and developing code from the terminal. In fact, changing directories is the basic mode of operation to walk between different tasks, context, or work spaces.
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Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server
TL;DR I set out to build the smallest container image that I could that was still able to do something useful. By taking advantage of multistage builds, the scratch base image, and a tiny assembly-based HTTP server, I was able to get it down to 6.32kB!
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EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
Phoenix, Arizona—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit today against Proctorio Inc. on behalf of college student Erik Johnson, seeking a judgment that he didn’t infringe the company’s copyrights when he linked to excerpts of its software code in tweets criticizing the software...
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Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc
In this blog post, I will show you the process of combining and converting a list of markdown files into kindle supported ebook (.mobi) format.
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DreamWorld (YC W21) MMO raises all red flags
Wake up and smell the bullcrap.
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Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment
Jonathan Smith was released from Talbot County DOC Wednesday, April 21, 2021 after 21 years of wrongful incarceration. He was greeted by his two sons, Jonathan pictured here picking him up. (Image: Eric Kayne/AP Images for the Innocence Project)
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Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure
As of April/2021 for people planning on integrating deeply with a Cloud provider services (not going for cloud-agnostic-solutions) choosing to depend on Google Cloud instead of AWS or Azure will more often than not prove to be an expensive mistake.
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OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 1
If social media is any indication, OpenCV AI Competition 2021 participants have really hit the ground running. The competition, sponsored by Microsoft Azure and Intel, features over 1000 developers on over 200 Phase 1 winning teams worldwide and our feeds are already buzzing with awesome videos and photos as teams…
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Godot 3.3
All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3, after more than 7 months of development! This release was initially planned as a 3.2.4 update to the 3.2 branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch.
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UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
Leadership in the University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science & Engineering learned today about the details of research being conducted by one of its faculty members and graduate students into the security of the Linux Kernel. The research method used raised serious concerns in the Linux Kernel community…
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Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
A year ago at BUILD 2020 we introduced our goal to bring Linux GUI applications to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux GUI applications. We
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Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russi...
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Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
Scaling the WhatsApp online-status hack from a single contact to 5000 random phone numbers — what the data says about phone usage habits.
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Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
This is a guide for starting a TypeScript project in 2021 with modern tooling. TypeScript 4 Optionally esbuild to bundle for browsers (and Node.js) Linting with typescript-eslint (tslint is deprecated) Testing with Jest (and ts-jest) Publishing a package to npm Continuous integration (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI)…