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EBay Patents 10-Click Checkout
I'm guessing the Firefox complaint is about bug 453455 ? I saved that bug from WONTFIX but it hasn't been fixed yet :(
Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 1
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Over-regulation is doubling the cost
After building a software company to a multi-billion dollar exit, I made the jump to hardware. Now I’m working on carbon removal + steel at Charm Industrial , and electric long-haul trucking with Revoy . It’s epically fun to be building in the real world, but little did I expect that more than half the cost of…
Is it a bubble?
In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence.
Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
There is a new development that directly impacts the open source community, and it warrants a new commentary. Angry maintainers have started adding code to a small number of open source repositorie…
Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
AI companies claim their hacks were unpredictable accidents — but they follow foreseeably from deliberate design choices, and that establishes criminal intent.
The role of developer skills in agentic coding
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop
A programming blog written by Vaxry.
Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
Async communication is like gzip compression for humans: more processing up front, but greater throughput with fewer packets.
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter
It turns out that you can't trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec.
Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
Why Bell Labs Worked
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
Hello, Today I am doing a quick post to cover the recent CrowdStrike incident that is estimated to have disabled 8.5M computers and caused more than $5.4B in damages since last week. Now a common q…
I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
The blog post discusses dissatisfaction with GitHub Actions due to its limitations in managing complex workflows, especially in monorepo setups with certain features like pull request checks and workflow reusability. Several issues have been highlighted, along with alternatives for GitHub Actions.
Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
Personal site of designer Frank Chimero
Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)
This post was inspired by some controversy with Valve and their support for Linux, but the bulk of it comes from long-term observation. One of the biggest impacts with the viability of Linux on the desktop was Valve’s Proton, a… Continue reading →
So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free. My vault lives in iCloud (Dropbox or Google Drive work too), so notes sync seamlessly…
Overview of JavaScript ES6 features
JavaScript tutorials and web development articles including topics like NodeJS, Angular, VueJS, Data Structures and Algorithms.
Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
The entire V8 compiler pipeline was overhauled and shipped with Node.js version 8. This post investigates what speed improvements we can expect as a result.
We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories
AP will no longer name suspects in minor crime stories, which we sometimes cover and pick up from member news organizations as one-off briefs because they are "odd" and of interest to our customers.
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
Sometimes the law is not the law