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Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available and ready for your production needs.
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Private Home Directories for Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today Ubuntu is deployed beyond just your laptops at home and in the office. Nowadays you are more likely to find Ubuntu in the cloud, powering some of the world’s…
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Online text to diagram tools (2020)
List of text to diagram tools
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Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself
Mugo is a single-pass compiler for a tiny subset of the Go programming language -- just enough to compile itself.
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Using the switch(true) pattern in JavaScript
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
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What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
In shell scripting you sometimes come across comparisons where each value is prefixed with "x". Here are some examples from GitHub:
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Does the Universe Have Higher Dimensions? Part 1
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
How can individuals reduce their emissions from transport?
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Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a first gen Core i5
This is my main computer, a Thinkpad T410 with a 1st generation Intel Core i5 and 8 GB of RAM. It runs Arch Linux with Xfce.
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Demystifying programs that create programs, part 1: A disassembler
People appear to enjoy the blog posts about me porting different compilers to OpenBSD . What I would like to do for the next couple of posts beginning with this one is to take a step back and de-complexify these programs. Both the D compiler and the GNU Modula-2 compiler are highly complex pieces of software. But at…
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The Ponzi Career
The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person.
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Making Librem 5 Apps [video]
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
A redacted document showed extremely sensitive information. Google's lawyer accidentally made it public.
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Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter (2018)
Author's Note After Release I'm really blown away by the reception of this article. It has spread far wider than I could have ever imagined. The many comments and discussions it has prompted that essentially confirm what I believe is truth by not just fellow engineers but many
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The Shape of Rome (2013)
The new Mayor of the city of Rome, Ignazio Marino, just announced his intention to destroy one of the city’s central roads, the Via dei Fori Imperiali, and turn the area around the old Roman Forum into the world’s largest archaeological park. Reactions have ranged from commuters’ groans to declarations from…
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A common mistake when NumPy’s RNG with PyTorch
A bug that plagues thousands of open-source ML projects.
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Go HTTPS Servers with TLS
This post is a basic introduction to running HTTPS servers and clients in Go using TLS. It assumes some familiarity with public-key crypto. Feel free to check out my earlier posts about RSA and the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange ; TLS uses the elliptic-curve version of Diffie-Hellman. I won't be covering how the protocol…
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The Gaslighting of Science
Final Installment of the Misinformation Trifecta
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Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses
Design your hiring process to find the right people to strengthen your teams' weaknesses, rather than trying to find the best people. Instead of "how can we find the smartest people?" think about "how can we find the people who will make our team stronger?"
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Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3
Yesterday I found myself googling how to do something that I’d think it was pretty standard: How to download multiple files from AWS S3 in parallel using Python? After not finding anything reliable in Stack Overflow, I went to the Boto3 documentation and started coding. Something I thought it would take me like 15…
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“Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading
Conventional wisdom holds that passive trading is the rational investing strategy. Active traders are often portrayed as gambling rubes or lucky opportunists who will (eventually) be handily beaten by index funds. But the steady growth of platforms like eToro and Robinhood, coupled with the acceleration of investing…
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Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
I'm evaluating new SaaS business ideas, and I wanted to share a little bit about exactly how I'm evaluating them.
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Things I was asked to do while job hunting
The hiring process could stand some improvements.
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A reading list for new engineering managers
<p>Like many engineers, I got thrown into management without any real guidance. I thought management was just telling people what to do. I thought there wasn’t any real science to it; you just needed to feel your way through it. I was wrong: there’s a whole field of study here, and you can learn a lot by…
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PSD is not my favourite file format
This programmer does not like the PSD File Format:
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Best practices for writing SQL queries
SQL best practices: a brief guide to writing better SQL queries.