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I'm a software and network engineer living on the west coast. I currently work at Qumulo writing a petabyte-scale CDN with linearizable reads and writes at every edge. Previously, I worked at Arista Networks doing network automation, large scale digital-twin network validation, and routing for SMPTE2110 networks.
I am convinced that if you want to start a rendering project from scratch, Nim is the best language to use.
COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking workers has swooped in to pitch their products to employers across the country.The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking”...
A tip on how to add a target on your Makefile to list all available targets
Interactive article explaining how lights and shadows behave.
One of the unspoken areas about software development is building usable software.
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After seeing the work done by Thomasz Mloduchowski and Colin Riley with managing to bridge the Raspberry Pi 4's PCI-Express bus to a USB 3.0 port, and then seeing these comments on hack-a-day, I thought I would give it a go too! So, here's a PCIe bridge chip that simply replaces the VL805 USB 3.
Old Web features — frontend and UI patterns
It is with a heavy heart that the Museum of Digital Art announces today the untimely closure of its location in Zurich at the end of July 2020. After four years of successful growth, Europe’s first physical museum dedicated to digital art was hit hard by the Covid19 lockdown, as it runs without any public funding…
Why ask this question? It's no secret that I want a Python implementation for WebAssembly [https://webassembly.org/]. It would not only get Python into the browser, but with the fact that both iOS [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/javascriptcore] and Android [https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps]…
We analyze a new Mac ransomware that appears to encrypt user files with a bit of a time delay. The ransomware encrypts files with little strategy.
This is the first part of an ongoing series on mastering jq. jq is a valuable tool that every fast coder has in their tool chest. It contains depths of immense power. In part 1, we'll start off with the basics.
Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is always exploring new optical architectures to improve form factor, comfort, and optical performance. Last fall,...
Posted by Platform Hardening Team In Android 11 we continue to increase the security of the Android platform. We have moved to safer def...
People are amazing creatures. When discussing a complex issue, they are able to keep multiple independentarguments in their heads, the pieces of supporting a...
Google has acquired North, a pioneer in human computer interfaces and smart glasses.
“David, this one, tell me about it …” He’d let me look at his domain name portfolio. Not names he owned and parked, but domains he owned & developed. This was another early project of his – a job board solely focused on the ranching industry. All aspects – cattle, outfitters, dude/guest, hunting, and even ... Read more
Marco Bonvini’s personal website.
Comparing the process of furnishing two apartments—one in Ecuador, the other in the U.S.—was a reminder: order and efficiency aren't always what they're cracked up to be.
Firefox 78 is the last major release with support for macOS versions 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 . If you use one of these versions, you’ll be supported through Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 78.x for the coming year.
Any time you have a benchmark that gets taken seriously, some people will start gaming the benchmark. Some famous examples in computing are the CPU benchmark specfp and video game benchmarks. With specfp, Sun managed to increase its score on 179.art (a sub-benchmark of specfp) by 12x with a compiler tweak that…
I recently installed Ubuntu Wacky Whatever, the latest version, and I’m very excited about it shipping with SSH 8.2, which means that I can finally use hardware USB keys for secure, easy to use authentication. If securing your devices has been something you’ve wanted to easily do yourself, read on, because it’s…
