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This article is an excerpt of my new book Cloudflare for Speed and Security where you will learn, among other things, how networking works in order to create fast, secure and scalable applications. If you are not overspending on compute (like many companies do because of "scale") then your biggest
Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.
Originally developed by Aristid Lindenmayer in 1968, an L-System is a formalism to generate self-similar structures. Although, L-Systems are capable of generating famous fractals like the Sierpinski Triangle (Axiom: FXF--FF--FF, F → FF , X → --FXF++FXF++FXF-- , angle = 60 ) or the Gosper Curve (Axiom: FX, X →…
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that…
Jina AI introduces jina-embeddings-v2, the world's first open-source model boasting an 8K context length. Matching the prowess of OpenAI's proprietary models, this innovation is now publicly accessible on Huggingface, signaling a significant milestone in the landscape of text embeddings.
if you're lucky, you haven't. you're still using a microwave from the 1990's or something like that, and it still works just fine. after all, how can a microwave be made any better? you put stuff in, and the water in the stuff heats up. there really isn't much innovation to be done that wasn't already done half a…
From JavaScript to Rust, three years in.
Or <em>"How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"</em>
I've written tens of thousands of lines of code with Remix and I want to tell you why I love using this framework.
Perth, Western Australia - 24 Oct 2023 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 11.0, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for macOS.
A post-modern modal text editor.
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
Languages that suffer success often have to do so by selling out and adding features that go against some of the original purposes of their design. SQL is a...
I originally posted this on Reddit so I could get a good sample of opinions from other engineers to see how they compared to mine before…
Learn from UC Davis researchers how adding crushed volcanic rock to farmland removes carbon dioxide from the air.
For years, macOS upgrades have broken Nix. We've updated the Determinate Nix Installer to ensure that this no longer happens, eliminating yet another annoyance for macOS users.
Elixir supports the usual supects of observability. Open Telemetry (OTel), log handlers, capturing metrics. And it does it well. This post will mostly focus on the observability you have on the BEAM that is either incredibly rare to see elsewhere or possibly entirely unique.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
I am thrilled to announce Nile, a serverless Postgres database designed for modern SaaS applications.
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
Big Brother meets Big Data
If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.
The largest recipient of this funding every year has been the FreeBSD Foundation, and to date they have received $173,920. It's hard to overstate the importance of the work the Foundation does; they provide hardware which keeps the FreeBSD project running, they fund a myriad of independent projects, and they have…
Overview Edit: this post was discussed on hacker news Some of the comments contained valuable reviews of the C code listed below. I’ve appended some edits after the original listing. I’ve been working quite with files and file systems on Linux recently. Mostly from the vantage point of either a shell or a python…
OAuth Account Takeover. Salt Labs shows how hackers could abuse OAuth to take over millions of accounts on Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak.
I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up …
