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A Latte a Day Isn’t Going to Ruin Your Retirement If spending $5 a day on fancy coffee puts your retirement at risk, you’ve got bigger problems. Bloomberg, April 3, 2019 Sorry, but no. If a daily latte is the difference between achieving your financial success or suffering devastating failure, then there…Read More
How did you start your day today? Probably reached for the phone. Turned off the alarm. Glanced at the time. Scrolled through the Slack...
Browsers historically have had a single HTTP Cache. This meant that if www.a.example and www.b.example both used cdn.example/jquery-1.2.1.js then JQuery would only be downloaded once. Since it's the same resource regardless of which site initiates the download, a single shared cache is more efficient. [1]…
Daniel: 00:00:00 Hello, welcome to the REPL, a podcast diving into Clojure programs and libraries. This week, I’m talking about Clojure with Zach Tellman, the creator of Manifold and Elements of Clojure, a recent book about Clojure. Welcome to the show, Zach.
In one of my last experiments I replaced my crappy T-Mobile (now Magenta) 4G modem/access point with an OpenWRT-based cheap travel router and a 4G USB LTE modem. That doubled my speed over the wireless (WLAN) network but the setup was limited by the outdated and under-powered travel rooter. So I got myself a cheap…
Today, after 4 years and 5 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.14, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.12.
Today, after three years of development, we are launching version 1.0 of Uppy,
Learn to reverse engineer Android applications!
Yesterday, a disruption in Google’s network in parts of the United States caused slow performance and elevated error rates on several Google services, including Google Cloud Platform, YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive and others. Because the disruption reduced regional network capacity, the worldwide user impact varied…
It's a C test. If you think you know C, take this test. It only has 5 questions.
docker, kubernetes, cloud
500+ domain extensions, 100+ plugins, and the best support team on the planet. We've been changing the domain industry since 2008, and we're only getting started.
When writing a book or course, you deal with hundreds of thousands of words and Vim helps you manage that in a sane way.
How working at Stripe changed my outlook on optimism, ambition, and recruiting.
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
For the past few years, I've been building and operating a large distributed system: the payments system at Uber [https://eng.uber.com/payments-platform/]. I've learned a lot about distributed architecture concepts…
Testing the iPhone 11 Pro as I continue on-going work photographing The Bach Project w/ Yo-Yo Ma, a world tour where Yo-Yo is performing Bach in unconventional places around the globe. It’s been a privilege to photograph this amazing journey.
My story of replacing three servers, across two countries, running two operating systems with a single server running Alpine Linux and Docker.
Study of thousands of players shows a simple online game works like a 'vaccine', increasing skepticism of fake news by giving people a “weak dose” of the methods behind disinformation.
House Bill 2001 will strike down local bans on duplexes for every low-density residential lot in all cities with more than 10,000 residents and...
A major update on a solid foundation
Access the latest perspectives on the energy transition with samples of research reports and data-driven analysis from BNEF experts.
Lazarus Lazaridis’ personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats.
Today’s blog post is an overview of some common optimization techniques and neat tricks for doing “systems programming” – whatever that means today. We’ll walk through some methods to make your code run faster, be more efficient, and to squeeze just a little more juice from whatever you got.
