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Previously, only organizations with GitHub Advanced Security could enable secret scanning's user experience on their repositories. Now, any admin of a public repository on GitHub.com can detect leaked secrets in…
As reported by Cameron McCormack, Firefox Nightly (version 29) now supports CSS variables. You can get a quick overview in this short screencast: You can define variables in a ...
Warning signs of micromanagement include sweating the small stuff, getting CC'ed on every email, and needing to approve everything.
A “vector” is a geometric object with two important properties: magnitude and direction. These two attributes might also describe Canada’s AI sector today, as key inves…
PMF Method from First Round is a free, intensive experience designed to help exceptional B2B founders increase their odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Read about the four levels of PMF in this preview of PMF Method content.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a serverless software as a service (SaaS) offering in under a year? In this blog post, we will describe how we built ClickHouse Cloud from the ground up
Under a California law that went into effect on January 1, 2020, all law enforcement training materials must be “conspicuously” published on the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) website. However, if you visit POST’s Open Data hub and try to download the officer...
A trio of Harvard researchers has developed a new 3-D pictorial language for mathematics with potential as a tool across a wide spectrum, from pure math to physics.
The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects – for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition”
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way — the Triangulum Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located at a distance of only three million light-years. This panoramic survey of the third-largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies provides a mesmerising…
Bootstrap 5 has officially landed! After three alphas, three betas, and several months of hard work, we're shipping the first stable release of our new major…
Researchers in the Microsoft Speech and Dialog Research Group have made an ad hoc microphone array by allowing meeting participants to join their phones together to enable more accurate meeting transcriptions. Explore how this array outperforms a single-device system.
Fixes 23 issues (addressing 13 👍). Run multiple scripts in --parallel or --sequential. bun:test mock & spyOn get Symbol.dispose support. ESM bytecode compilation. Faster Bun.markdown. Faster RegExp, String.prototype.trim, String.prototype.startsWith.
Starting in mid-January 2025, Volexity identified several social-engineering and spear-phishing campaigns by Russian threat actors aimed at compromising Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts. These attack campaigns were highly targeted and carried out in a variety of ways. The majority of these attacks originated via…
The Biden administration is proposing that banks be required to report all transactions greater than $600 to collect more tax revenue. This policy is poised to suffocate businesses and stifle the financial privacy of Americans.
Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal). Why would a National Laboratory need the capacity to do this? To provide components that were not…
How did grep get its name? This all starts back with ed, the original unix...
Ruff adds a versioning policy, fix safety levels, and a preview mode for unstable features.
Pagination, pervasive as it is in web applications, is easy to implement inefficiently. This post examines different methods of server-side pagination and their tradeoffs in PostgreSQL. Methods explored include limit-offset, cursors, keyset pagination, as well as more exotic techniques.
Sometime in the last two weeks of 1989, I sent myself an e-mail message: I no longer have it, unfortunately — it was lost in one of many system switches or crashes that happened in those early days... But it was the first message sent by a small MS-DOS application I had written, which at the time was called "ComNet…
CI is chaotic, bursty, spiky, and short-lived. That chaos is a nightmare unless you’re built for it. Blacksmith’s serverless CI cloud thrives on unpredictability: more customers = more noise = smoother utilization = lower costs for everyone. Multitenancy isn’t just efficient — it’s profitable. And yes, the margins are…
Routines aren't the only thing we need for a balanced life. Most of us spend our days switching tasks and it’s our rituals that help us get through them.
My job involves a lot of staring at large numbers, mostly latencies in nanoseconds, and picking out magnitudes like microseconds. I noticed myself constantly...
