Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,129 posts.
Today I'll be showing you how to create a fast on the fly image processing server. The whole system can be created in less than 100 lines of code. We'll be using OpenResty , an enhanced distribution of Nginx. We'll also need to write a...
We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps the Internet backbone through secret agreements with major US telcos., but the US government still hasn’t admitted it. In late August, the Obama administration declassified a ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Footnote 3…
Mathematical mistake/error-rates limit our understanding of rare risks and ability to defend against them.
Microsoft has announced that CAs in its root program may not issue certs signed using the SHA-1 algorithm, starting just over two years from now, and that Windows will start refusing to recognise such certs starting just over 3 years from now.
My point is not that infinite scroll is stupid. It may be great on your website. But we should have done a better job of understanding the people using our website” – Dan McKinley, Principal Engineer at Etsy A few weeks ago, Etsy engineer Dan McKinley gave a talk on “Design for Continuous Experimentation.” It’s …
A few days ago was the anniversary of the beginning of the Cost of Knowledge boycott of Elsevier. It seems a good moment to take stock of what the boycott has achieved and to think about what progr…
Here’s a followup to last month’s post about Penrose Tiling in Obfuscated Python. The Mandelbrot set is a traditional favorite among authors of obfuscated code. You …
Several years ago, the CSS :visited pseudo-selector caused a bit of a ruckus: a malicious web page could display a large set of links to as...
Earlier today Stephen Johnson, in a mailing list run by the The Unix Heritage Society , described the birth of the standard error concept: the idea that a program's error output is sent on a channel different from that of its normal output. Over the past forty years, all major operating systems and language libraries…
We all uses notepad or sticky note or some editor to take immediate notes on something like code snippet, ideas, blog content, todo. Recently I came to know that we can use our browser just like notepad. The trick hacks around Data URI scheme and html contenteditable attribute.
Observations on gender, feminism and harrassment.
I recently decided to try out RabbitMQ (the popular messaging queue) to fix the problem of notifications.
At the very beginning, I should probably make it clear that this post is not a declaration of exclusivity in my relationship to Perl. I love programming languages. I first learned to program about the same time I first learned to read (English) and first studied French. My love for programming languages is very much…
Some best practices I've picked up after working on Django products over the past 18 months
