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Working with Errors in Go 1.13
How to use the new Go 1.13 error interfaces and functions.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,838 posts.
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What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (2016)
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Hyphenation in CSS
Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens. Updated January 2023.
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ET Don't Phone Home
I recently became aware of this article where a Google exec says - he’s serious - that ‘Nest owners should probably warn their guests that their conversations are being recorded’. That’s assuming the owners themselves are even aware of what these devices are doing, and the likely truth is that they do not. Like needy…
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Designing a COM Library for Rust
I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language (SSPL) group, which explores safe programming languages as a proactive measure against memory-safety related vulnerabilities.
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Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little
A special thing we do at work because I asked for it is that we have CO2 monitors in the meeting rooms. These measure the levels of CO2 levels in the air. In...
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Preparing for 25 Years
On October 7, this blog will have existed and been continually updated for 25 years.
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How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach
I’m not a huge fan of stories about stories, or those that explore the ins and outs of reporting a breach. But occasionally I feel obligated to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it’s crystal clear they wouldn’t know what to do with a data breach if it bit them in the…
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Hubble Reveals Latest Portrait of Saturn
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion kilometres away.
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Parallel Commits: A New Atomic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transactions
Parallel Commits are an atomic commit protocol in CockroachDB. The feature promises to halve the latency of distributed transactions by performing all consensus round trips required to commit a transaction concurrently.
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Strategies for Long Projects
I’m in the middle of three multi-month to a year projects right now: Writing a book Running a marathon Building a ...
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Logistic Regression from Bayes’ Theorem
In this post we’ll explore how we can derive logistic regression from Bayes’ Theorem. Starting with Bayes’ Theorem we’ll work our way to computing the log odds of our problem and the arrive at the inverse logit function. After reading this post you’ll have a much stronger intuition for how logistic
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Shipping a compiler every six weeks
This blog post is a slightly edited version of the live transcript of the talk I gave at RustFest 2019 in Barcelona on November 10th, 2019. As it's a transcript some parts of it are a bit repetitive or badly worded, but I hope the message behind the talk will be conveyed by this post anyway.
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Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices
A walkthrough of a couple of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) features with security recommendations and advice on how to configure your GCP environments.
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The art of interrupting software engineers
Earlier this month, Broadcom published findings from our frontier model research initiative examining what frontier AI models can do when applied to vulnerability discovery and...
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Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter
Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway. I want to put forward cases for
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Key Change
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it launched in 1999.
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Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions
I spent last weekend making a GUI for rsync (and this past week tidying it up a bit) and I learned a lot about rsync, GUIs, design, power, control, and decisions around verbosity and freedom of choice versus simplicity and guidance/support, packaging, maintenance and support.
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Comparisons in C++20
Now that the Cologne meeting is over and we’ve more or less finalized (at least before the NB comments come in) C++20, I wanted to take the time to describe in detail one of the new language features we can look forward to. The feature is typically referred to as operator<=> (defined in the language as “three-way…
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How the Great Pyramid at Giza Looked in 2560 BCE
The current outer surface of the Great Pyramid at Giza is made of rough limestone blocks, colored a dark sandy brown from hundreds of years of pollution and wea
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Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio
Create a WhatsApp chatbot using Python & Flask with Twilio's API. Follow our step-by-step guide to build, deploy, & enhance your chatbot. Start building with Twilio.
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State of Industrial Control Systems in Poland and Switzerland
TL;DR New update for Kamerka allows to map Industrial Control Systems of whole country. As in previous version, interactive map is created…
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Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web
Advancing the state of the art of HTTP/2 to deliver a faster user experience. See why it matters and how much of a differenc
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Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
These candidates were assessed on a variety of axes, most importantly Community Participation Guideline enforcement and accessibility, but also including team requirements from engineering, organizational-values alignment, usability, utility and cost. To close out, I’ll talk about the options we haven’t chosen and…
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When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter
When it comes to composition and length, your password (mostly) doesn’t matter.