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If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
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The Modern Guide to OAuth
Learn how OAuth 2.0 works with this simplified explanation and guide. Learn what it is, why it's essential for secure authorization, and best practices for implementation.
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A Guide to Twitter
We hope that this guide to Twitter will be useful to you, wherever you are in your Twitter journey.
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Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö
How special characters in file names can ruin your day.
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How Audio Fingerprinting Works
An intuitive explanation of how audio fingerprinting works helping users in identifying music from short snippets
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A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
Imagine you wrote a program for a pleasingly parallel problem, where each thread does its own independent piece of work, and the threads don’t need to coordi...
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Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows
A hard reality of C and C++ software development on Windows is that there has never been a good, native C or C++ standard library implementation for the platform. A standard library should abstract over the underlying host facilities in order to ease portable software development. On Windows, C and C++ is so poorly…
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The Price of Discipline
David shares how discipline can lead to unhappiness and stifle learning for both children and adults. Read now.
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Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
Over the years, I've accumulated quite a collection of websites, web applications, APIs, and other services that I've built and continue to host publicly. I've experimented with a lot of different hosting methods for them, switched between several different providers, and have finally arrived at something that I feel…
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NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful
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Why is my Rust build so slow?
I’ve recently come back to an older project of mine (that powers this website), and as I did some maintenance work: upgrade to newer crates, upgrade to a newer rustc, I noticed that my build was ta...
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
Without too much fanfares Sciter has officially transitioned from TIScript to JavaScript this week.
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macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
About 3 years ago I wrote about my Linux Desktop Setup and having used pretty much the same software setup for 10-15 years. My setup used to be heavily keyboard based. Now for work I am for the first time using a macOS-based Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro CPU. I spent the last 3 weeks using it as a daily driver, tweaking…
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UK Now Reports Myocarditis stratified by Age & Sex After Vaccine Or Sars-cov-2
Nature Medicine paper revisited: And it is shocking
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Germany: Data retention to be abolished
According to the German Minister of Justice data retention or "the storage of telecommunications data without any reason" could soon come to an end.
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Unusual login activity was due to bug
As part of our commitment to security, we regularly monitor our services for actual, suspected, or attempted malicious or unusual activity. We recently investigated reports of an uptick of users recei[..]
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How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.
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Long Now Years: Five-digit Dates and Y10K-compliance at Home
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
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The gift of it's your problem now
Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hund...
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Why can’t you design noise in frequency space?
The python code that goes along with this blog post can be found at To evaluate the quality of a blue noise texture, you can analyze it in frequency space by taking a discrete Fourier transform. Wh…
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How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?
LastPass accounts are under attack. I look into how user’s master passwords might have leaked.
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Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.
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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous
Justin Sherman for Wired points out the farce that is anonymized data: Data on hundreds of millions of Americans’ races, genders, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, political beliefs, int…
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Playable English Localizations of Slovak Digital Games from the Late 80s Period
English translations of early Slovak digital games from the late 80s period, created in cooperation with Slovak Game Developers Association by Stanislav Hrda, Slavomír Labský, Marián Kabát, Darren Chastney, Jakub Celušák and Maroš Brojo. Download gamesENG versions of all games Accompanying contentGuides for all…
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Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system
京都大学学術情報メディアセンターセンター長 岡部 寿男