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I canceled the OnStar subscription on my new GMC vehicle today after receiving an email from the company about their new terms and conditions. While most people, I imagine, would hit the delete button when receiving something as exciting as new terms and conditions, being the nerd sort, I decided to have a personal…
Gonçalo MB. My personal website, projects, contacts and stuff.
Programs are more complicated than projects which are more complicated than milestones. Instead of projects, focus on milestonesMost engineering organizations focus on delivering projects. You can get better results by focusing on milestones instead.
Tools for multi-processing on unix
Something I’ve been thinking about recently is how when I’ve worked on any kind of distributed system, including systems as simple as a web app with frontend and backend code, probably upwards of 80% of my time is spent on things I wouldn’t need to do if it weren’t distributed. I came up with the following description…
We all have our little mantras we use to get through the day. After I started writing games in 1994 and went full-time in 1995, I soon c...
Wix, the website builder company you may remember from stealing WordPress code and lying about it, has now decided the best way to gain relevance is attacking the open source WordPress community in…
For the past year, the [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we're sharing the source code for it. It lives alongside the existing code for Sorbet on GitHub, mostly in the `compiler/` folder:
I am thrilled by all of the excitement that I see around AWS Lambda and serverless application development. I have shared many serverless success stories, tools, and open source projects in the AWS Week in Review over the last year or two. Today I would like to tell you about two important additions to Lambda: […]
The Database Toolkit for Python
Romero Games is an independent game development studio based in Galway, Ireland, founded by legendary game designers John Romero and Brenda Romero. The studio creates original PC and console games, combining decades of industry experience with with innovative gameplay, immersive worlds, and modern t
In February 2016 one of the largest cyber heists was committed and subsequently disclosed. An unknown attacker gained access to the Banglade...
The Lumen Project is an alternative implementation of the Erlang VM, more known as the BEAM. It is designed to work in WebAssembly with the specific goal of bringing Elixir and Erlang to the browser.
Like any self-respecting UI designer, I have a microscope 1 sitting on my desk. 2 Here are some pictures comparing a bunch of different screens. They're all taken at approximately the same magnification. 3 At the scale that the pictures were taken, the width of this bar equals about 1mm:
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.
Learn why top-down standardization efforts can often lead to failure and how understanding specific problems through collaboration and embedding wi...
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To celebrate our "crystal anniversary," here's a collection of the stories, blog posts, products and adventures from 15 years of making crazy things.
Target="_blank" - the most underestimated vulnerability ever - Wednesday, 04 May 2016 - Alex's blog
File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., SOSP’19 Ten years of hard-won lessons packed into just 17 pages (13 if you don’t co…
(This is an adapted version of an article I wrote for the Dutch amateur radio magazine Electron , November 2021.)
When you buy a video game, you expect to be able to play it for as long as you want. You expect be able to play it with your kids many years from now if you want (well, maybe not Grand Theft Auto). And you would hope that museums and media historians could preserve the games that were so important...
In a Tower Defense game, there are many enemies that are all headed to the same place. In many Tower Defense games, there is a predetermined path, or a small number of paths. In some, such as the classic Desktop Tower Defense [1] , you can place towers anywhere, and they act as obstacles that affect the paths taken by…
How I optimize SVGs for this blog and why you probably should, too.
EFF recently won our challenge to invalidate claims of the “podcasting patent” using a procedure at the Patent Office called inter partes review. This procedure allowed us to challenge a patent that was being used to demand licenses from individual podcasters, even though EFF itself had never been...
