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How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress
Even if you’ve covered Congress for The New York Times for a decade, it can be hard to recognize which member you’ve just spoken with…
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Raising a Very Unusual Round of Funding and Open-Sourcing Our Docs
The Short Version Our new company, SparkToro, LLC has just completed a $1.3mm angel financing. And, because we think our structure might be right for many
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I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig
I am fortunate to be one of those people who started tinkering with code in their teens, and then found themselves in the position where their hobby could not only pay rent, but afford a comfortable standard of living, even in New York City.
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Haxe: Cross-Platform Development's Best-Kept Secret
While the modern programming language Haxe is well-known in some circles, many developers have never heard of it. Yet since it first appeared in 2005, it's been battle-tested by its loyal---if rather quiet---following. It boasts a pragmatic and mature combination of features for development in business, gaming, and ...
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Notes on Idris (2017)
In a bid to expand my programming brain by learning something about “dependent types”, I recently bought the Idris book. (Idris is a pure functional programming language that is mostly …
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Extracting the private key from a TREZOR with an oscilloscope (2015)
Homepage of Jochen Hoenicke
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JEP 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript script engine and APIs, and the jjs tool, with the intent to remove them in a future release.
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The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub
I could write a lot of things about the Github acquisition by Microsoft. About Github's embrace and extend of git, and how it passed unnoticed by people who now fear the same thing now that Microsoft is in the picture. About the stultifying effects of Github's centralization, and its retardant effect on general…
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Beware of strncpy and strncat
Most C programmers also know to avoid the legacy strcpy() and strcat() functions, as these commonly introduce buffer-overflow problems. Instead, C programmers should use the newer strncpy() and strncat() functions, which check the size of the buffer they're copying data into.
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Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring A.I.
Mozilla’s latest awards will support people and projects that examine the effects of AI on society At Mozilla, one way we support a healthy internet i
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Truth First, or Why You Should Mostly Implement Database-First Designs
In this much overdue article, I will explain why I think that in almost all cases, you should implement a “database first” design in your application’s data models, rather than a …
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Using Countdown Clock Data to Understand the New York City Subway
Ranking the lines by reliability, the anatomy of a delay, and a case for the $19 billion subway plan
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Introducing DNS Resolver for Tor
As was mentioned in the original 1.1.1.1 blog post, our policy is to never write client IP addresses to disk and wipe all logs within 24 hours. Still some folks might not want to reveal their IP address to the resolver at all. This is why we are launching a Tor hidden service for our resolver.
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F-Secure Anti-Virus: Remote Code Execution via Solid RAR Unpacking
Blog about anti-virus software vulnerabilities.
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ServiceFabric: a distributed platform for building microservices in the cloud
ServiceFabric: a distributed platform for building microservices in the cloud Kakivaya et al., EuroSys’18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by fo…
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Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and preservation project
Research and cultural heritage institutions are facing increasing costs to provide long-term public access to historically valuable collections of scientific data, born-digital records, and other digital artifacts. With many institutions moving data to cloud services, data sharing and access costs have become more…
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Project Capillary: End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simplified
Developers already use HTTPS to communicate with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). The channel between FCM server endpoint and the device is encrypted with SSL over TCP. However, messages are not encrypted end-to-end (E2E) between the developer server and the user device unless developers take special measures. To this…
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Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available
We announced Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and invited customers to take a look at a preview during re:Invent 2017. Today I am pleased to be able to let you know that EKS is available for use in production form. It has been certified as Kubernetes conformant, and is ready to run your existing […]
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GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source
Our top-tier SaaS and self-managed offerings are now free to educational institutions and open source projects. Find out how to apply.
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MLflow: An Open Source Machine Learning Platform
MLflow is an open-source platform to manage the ML lifecycle, offering tools for data preparation, model training, and deployment at scale.
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Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Budget, or at All
Learn how to predict the timeline, budget, and resources more accurately in your software development project in 7 steps.
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Leveraging Introversion as a Career Strength
Being an introvert doesn’t mean you lack great management potential—but you need to play to your strengths