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Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
This post is part of my Programming for Advanced Beginners series. Subscribe now to receive specific, actionable ways to make your code cleaner, every other week, entirely free.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
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‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
Censored Planet by salvey on Sketchfab The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of the world’s freest countries are not safe from internet censorship. A University of Michigan team used Censored Planet, an automated censorship tracking syste
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Security by obscurity is underrated
Some thoughts about cyber security, technology and life - https://utkusen.com/. Click to read Utku Sen’s Substack, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Software Disenchantment (2018)
Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care
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TailwindCSS v2.0
Today we're finally releasing Tailwind CSS v2.0, including an all-new color palette, dark mode support, and tons more!
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A half-hour to learn Rust
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means? In this article, instead of focusing on one or...
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Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
Adobe Flash Player End of Life general information
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An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT
Stanford Center for Internet and Society2020903 points351 commentscited by 7Society, Policy & Culture details
On Tuesday, June 23, Senators Graham (R-SC), Cotton (R-AR), and Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a bill that is a full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the United States. You can find the bill text here. It's been formally introduced as Senate bill 4051, which you can
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Amnesia is now open source
Modding has been a huge part of Amnesia. For instance, over the years The Dark Descent has accumulated over a thousand mods and addons on ModDB. This flood of user content has been amazing to see and we are extremely grateful for the whole community surrounding it all. It is time we gave something back! So today we…
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Using Anki to remember what you read
Imagine this:
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
Important update for LTSE Equity customers.
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Intel's disruption is now complete
“Look, Clayton, I’m a busy man and I don’t have time to read drivel from academics but someone you told me you had this theory… and I’m…
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Frances Allen has died
The IBM Research blog is the home for stories told by the researchers, scientists, and engineers inventing What’s Next in science and technology.
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Single Page Applications using Rust
Easy to follow guide to building SPAs using Rust, WebAssembly and Yew
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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
The homepage of the work for which I'm best known — a model Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders!
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Things I wish I’d known about CSS
I learned how to build websites the old fashioned way: looking at website source code and trying to replicate the things I saw. I threw in the odd book for the stuff I couldn’t _see_ (like PHP/MySQL),…
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Six Months of Tiny Projects
In this post I'll give an update on how my Tiny Projects are performing six months on, and the pros and cons of launching micro-businesses.
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Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently
Yuebin Sun(@yuebinsun2020) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab 0x0 SummaryToday, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for macOS patched three critical vulnerabilities(CVE-2020-9615, CVE-2020-9614, CVE-2020-9613) I repo
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VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now
Or possibly tomorrow is, depending on who you ask – technically, the game first went live at 3am GMT on the 11th January 2010, after a very, very long day of fixing every last bug I could, making last minute builds , and trying to slowly upload everything on an extremely unreliable internet connection that kept…
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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
Combination of #1 CRM platform with the most innovative enterprise communications platform will create the operating system for the new way to work,
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Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
Back when there were rumors of Google building an operating system, I thought “Lol.” Then I watched then-PM Sundar Pichai announce Chrome OS. My heart raced. It was perfect. I got my email through Gmail, I wrote documents on Docs, I listened to Pandora, I viewed photos on TheFacebook.
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Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
This Halloween week, GFN Thursday is delivering a fresh batch of gaming treats. Something wicked this blade comes. S-GAME’s Phantom Blade Zero launches on GeForce...
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Reasons not to become famous
I felt like I somehow needed fame. In retrospect, there was a lot of self-loathing from tough childhood experiences, and I desperately hoped that love from without (i.e., from masses of other people) would somehow make up for hate from within.
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Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
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Don't use third party auth to sign in
If a website offers you to sign-in using Google (or any third-party service, say Facebook, Github, etc.), don’t use that feature.