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Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC
Update: please read this post This project was born at the Warsaw Hackerspace , it was funded by my friend Spin, who wanted to use the d...
Running PostgreSQL on Compression-enabled ZFS
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform
Attitudes towards the Facebook platform have changed Recently, Bill Gurley of Benchmark wrote a great piece on how platform companies like Facebook, iOS, Android, eBay, and others manage the ecosystem around them. It’s an important essay and I’d recommend you all read it. I found myself nodding my head as Facebook was…
“Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere”
Continuing the case method on MBA Mondays, I am going to tell a story about a business model pivot that was not a full business pivot. In the lull between Flatiron and Union Square Ventures, I made a few angel investments and the best one was in a company called TACODA that went on to […]
Update on Go 1.1 crypto performance
Some time ago I integrated OpenSSL's MD5, SHA1 and RC4 functions into Go because Go's native implementations were slow. The Go team has ma...
Open Sans, how do we love thee?
If you’re sharp-eyed, you’ve noticed that we recently adopted Open Sans as our default typeface across WordPress.com. Type wonks know that Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface. I…
The other side of "academic freedom"
My various blog posts about moving from academia to industry have prompted a number of conversations with PhD students who are considerin...
Beautiful Pacific Crest Trail Journals
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Diving into AngularJS
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits
"You're smart too late and old too soon." - Mike Tyson I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.96! OS/CPU Win...
Linux on an 8-bit micro
Dmitry.GR: A successful experiment in running real Linux on an 8-bit AVR.
Obscure C++ Features
This page is a collection of obscure C++ features, gathered over the years as I've explored different corners of the language. C++ is very big and I'm always learning more about it. Hopefully you'll learn something from this page even if you already know C++ pretty well. The features below are roughly ordered from…
I Knew a Programmer Who Went Completely Insane
Not long ago one of our programmers just lost it and he lost it good. He walked into the manager’s office and began screaming strange things...
JQuery 2.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
So, I tried Dwolla
I actually tried it a year+ ago to send money to a friend. It's fast, inexpensive, and seemingly easy.