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Espressif’s ESP32-C5 is the industry’s first RISC-V SoC solution that supports 2.4 and 5 GHz dual-band Wi-Fi 6, along with Bluetooth LE. It is designed for applications that require a high-efficiency wireless transmission.
Use this guide to setup Tailscale SSH. Learn how it transforms SSH connectivity by using your Tailscale identity for authentication. Enjoy simplified setup, added security with WireGuard®, and customizable access with ACLs. Ideal for managing secure connections across your tailnet.
Utopian energy is an imagined form of energy that’s abundant, reliable, inexpensive, and also clean, renewable, and life-sustaining. But utopian energy is as much a fantasy as a utopian society. Seeking the fount of perfect energy allows us to pretend there aren’t real-world tradeoffs between, say,
Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice? It's dead. Its last major release was version 4.1, from 2014! In contrast, LibreOffice's release schedule is robust: Timelines of major product releases. OpenOffice is light blue, LibreOffice is green. (source) In 2020, LibreOffice wrote a constructive letter, outlining a path for…
Let's build a simple state machine in Ruby and use the state machines gem.
Most of the complexity and nuance of the Web is stuffed into browser engines. Even though they’re a huge burden to develop and maintain, the world is lucky enough to have three major ones, and they’re all Open Source.
Before It Devours The World, Part I
In French, the word for potato is pomme de terre. This literally translates to apple of the earth. By this logic, potatoes are the lowest-hanging fruit of all. More seriously: We keep getting more …
My thoughts and experiences on how writing a daily journal improved my memory and understanding of myself.
We've put together an index of testing terms and articles, covering many of the basics of testing and definitions for common searches.
Series A led by Sequoia Capital
Oh my GOSH this is getting good. One of my favorite planes the F-4 Phantom. And one of our alpha testers recently casually mentioned that he was an Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom flight instructor. I’ve been exchanging emails with him about every 30 minutes or so, on average, for 12-hour-long days, for the past […]
Wikimedia Enterprise announced its first customers: multinational technology company Google and nonprofit digital library Internet Archive. Wikimedia Enterprise was recently launched by the Wikimedia Foundation as an opt-in product.
As a hackathon project at our recent team offsite, Mati and I hacked together a quick experiment to test whether Bionic Reading actually works. Initial results suggest not, but there are some glimmers in the data justifying a revised experiment correcting the mistakes of our pilot study. If you have 10 minutes to read…
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.
I figured out how to run a SQL query directly against a CSV file using the sqlite3 command-line utility:
Announcing urllib3's bounty program The urllib3 team is excited to announce the start of our bounty program! We’ve recognized that one of the biggest challenges to shipping v2.0 is not having e...
They’re so fast we can’t catch up! Check out our benchmarks with two datasets to learn how we used continuous aggregates to make queries up to 44,000x faster.
Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers
A common issue when writing tests for real-world software is how to deal with third-party dependencies. Let’s examine an old, but counter-intuitive principle.
I quit my job as an engineering manager at Oracle in early June 2021. I had a bit of savings and a few contract opportunities so I decided to see how far I could get building an app I've wanted for years as a manager. I have never built my own app before and I've never built a desktop app before.
A new Trail of Bits research report examines unintended centralities in distributed ledgers Blockchains can help push the boundaries of current technology in useful ways. However, to make good risk decisions involving exciting and innovative technologies, people need demonstrable facts that are arrived at through…
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
These statements can be hard to argue against, especially if they come from someone who is more experienced than you. A lot of the trouble is that they are not wrong – well, they’re not completely wrong.
The Microvium JavaScript engine for microcontrollers takes less than 16 kB of ROM and 64 bytes of RAM per VM while idle, making it possibly the smallest JavaScript engine to date with more language features than engines 4x its size
