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Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls
During me being at my parents over the holidays (Christmas 2017) I had the usual IT-support stuff to do, that always happens to tech sa...
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Kubernetes Failure Stories
I started to compile a list of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes. It should make it easier for people tasked with operations to find outage reports to learn from. Since we started w
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Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing.
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Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
In this release: New profile directory, new tutorial, new public hashtag pages and more moderation tools
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Inside the C Standard Library
After diving into the C language through K&R, and then studying portability (see C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines ), my next challenge was to take a systematic look at the standard library. To do this I worked through P. J. Plauger’s book The Standard C Library (ISBN 978-0131315099) where he examines an…
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My Parents Are Flat Earthers
For decades, my parents have been working up to Flat-Earther beliefs. From Egyptology to Jehovah's Witnesses to theories that human built the Moon billions of years in the future. Surprisingly, it doesn't affect their successful lives very much. For me, it's a fun family pastime.
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A Bridge Too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic
1. Introduction Shortly after the death of E.W. Dijkstra (1930-2002), K.R. Apt wrote an obituary under the title Portrait of a Genius [1]. At the time it seemed to me a bit over the top. Now, with …
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How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too
First published Jan. 17, 2019; updated Nov. 15, 2019 Let me briefly tell my Linux story. If you're thinking about moving to Linux, and wondering how you'd do so, it might give you some pointers and inspiration. The back story My first introduction to the command line was in the 80s when I f
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I Nearly Lost All of My Data
My home server completely shit the best recently and I thought I'd lost all my data.
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HandBrake 1.2.0 Released
News and Project Updates!
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Front End Development Topics to Learn in 2019
Ah, January. A time of optimism, a time for starting afresh. For making new goals and resolutions. And in the web development world, for looking at the landscape and deciding what we need to learn just to keep up. Because let’s face it - web development is always changing, and if we aren’t constantly learning we’re…
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Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used programming language, by several orders of magnitude. We asked ourselves whether it would be possible to apply programming language research ideas to make spreadsheets a better programming language? If we could, that would empower a huge user community to do more. One of…
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25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
I've come to a conclusion that I have nothing to show for my 25 years of coding. I am ready to begin and I have a plan.
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Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration
The Pixelbook and four other fairly new Chromebooks have the special flag to enable GPU acceleration, making these the first to get the new feature for Linux. This should bring the Android emulator and improved gaming capabilities to Project Crostini.
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MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
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Future of TypeScript on ESLint
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
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Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017)
An investigation revealing that Mexican soda tax supporters were targeted with NSO Group's government-exclusive spyware and exploit framework.
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773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessly dubbed it “the…
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Is C++ fast?
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Building CockroachDB on top of RocksDB
CockroachDB uses RocksDB for its storage engine because of RocksDB's rich feature set, which is necessary for a complex product like a distributed SQL database.
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Animating CSS Grid
Soooo, Jen Simmons just dropped a surprise bombshell on Twitter – CSS Grid grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows properties are now animatable in Firefox Nightly! Naturally I had to jump in and have a go right away!
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5G: if you build it, we will fill it
What is 5G? Why do we care? How much faster does the pipe get? What can we do with a fatter pipe? How does this relate to VR? Cars? Broadband? What’s the killer app? Really, unless you work in a few very narrow niches, you shouldn’t spend much time thinking about it.