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How internet ads work
header bidding, DFP, GAM, cpm ... welcome in the world of ads, where everything is an acronym. Le me try to explain how everything works under the hood.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score
I. The Body Keeps The Score is a book about post-traumatic stress disorder. The author, Bessel van der Kolk, helped discover the condition and lobby for its inclusion in the DSM, and the brief fora…
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OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Announcing .NET Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter Notebooks has been the significant player in the interactive ...
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Privacy: Is That iPhone?
A new Mozilla-Ipsos poll reveals that a majority of iPhone users treasure privacy — but aren’t aware of the device's ad tracking
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Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
Government Must Have Reasonable Suspicion of Digital Contraband Before Searching Electronic Devices at the U.S. Border
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Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup
This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks There was a time when much of U.S. academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Some o…
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Red Hat Introduces Open Source Project Quay Container Registry
Red Hat introduces the open sourcing of Project Quay, the upstream project representing the code that powers Red Hat Quay and Quay.io.
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CockroachDB 19.2
CockroachDB 19.2 improves latency, reliability, and usability. We’re bringing the speed of distributed transactions closer to the theoretical minimum.
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How to sleep at night having a cloud service: common architecture do's
I like to sleep, but more importantly, I like to sleep while my cloud service is running.
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The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable future for WebAssembly
Lin Clark introduces the Bytecode Alliance, and uses Code Cartoon illustrations to share their vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations. ...
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The Google Squeeze
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
A problem that would have been discovered in the future would now be captured by the SMART stats when the process reads that section of disk today.
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Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)
The standard for browsing the web over a text-=based terminal is Lynx, right? ...
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The Sad End of Intel Desktop Boards
As previously discussed on this blog, Intel decided to quit the desktop board business in 2013. What has not been discussed is how Intel treated the buyers of the last generation (i.e. 8-series Lynx Point chipsets) of those boards. Since I have now acquired two of those boards, DZ87KLT-75K and DQ87PG, I had an…
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Blogwashing
Blogwashing is a scammy SEO tactic which involves changing an old blogs publish date to a more current date to fake freshness to a search engine.
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PeerTube v2
Thanks to your donations, we have been developing a software to free us all from YouTube & Co for a year. Why have we gone much further than the first release, (crowdfunded in the spring of 2018), you might ask? Well, that's because we sincerely believe in the emancipatory power of PeerTube. This article is...
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Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well
How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before. Uber, however, had an official mentoring program. Almost
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Floating point oddity
Code that shows how floating point arithmetic can go wrong, and how C and C++ can return different results for similar code.
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My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
<p>For years I’ve noodled around with various setups for a Python development environment. A couple of years ago <a href="https://jacobian.org/2018/feb/21/python-environment-2018/">I wrote about a setup I finally liked</a>; this is an update to that post.</p> <p>Bad news: this stuff still isn’t stable, and…
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When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques
You can process data that doesn’t fit in memory by using four basic techniques: spending money, compression, chunking, and indexing.
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Moving towards a faster web
Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...
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The Next 50 Years of Databases (2015)
Andy attempts to revive his blog by predicting what databases will look like in the year 2065.
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Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
The first task of the 21st Weekly Challenge was a very old one: to find (what would eventually become known as) Euler’s number.
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About the Apple Card
My name is Jamie Heinemeier Hansson. Since my husband, David, tweeted about an unfortunate and ridiculous situation with AppleCard that involves me, I have been (or my credit-worthiness has been) the subject of lots of speculation. Unlike David, I am an extremely private person who does not post on social media. I am…
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How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.
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The Maturing of QUIC
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.