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Your primary email (the one you give to banks, social media sites, etc.) is the most important online account you have. If an attacker can take over your primary email account, they can reset passwords on every other service that uses that email for account recovery.
Creating the ultimate Linux on the desktop experience for everything in containers.
One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any craftsperson, your tools matter. Notepad.exe isn’t going to cut it. A powerful editor and testing pipeline supercharge your productivity. I still remember learning to use Vim for the first time and being able to zip around systems and…
The PocketBeagle is a tiny but powerful inexpensive key-fob-sized open source Linux computer. It has 44 digital I/O pins, 8 analog input...
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This summer, we have enhanced bicycle costing. Not only is overall routing improved, but `use_roads'` and `use_hills` are now much more versatile.
We're excited to announce that in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU) due to ship in fall 2017, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will no longer be a
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Firefox 53 includes the first significant piece of Project Quantum, the Quantum Compositor for Windows. Dig in to features and under-the-hood improvements such as compact themes, new WebExtension features, the ...
[ Update Nov 27: This post had issues, and I retract some of my more provocative claims. See the errata at the end. ]
The Network Monitor tool has been available in Firefox since the earliest days of Firefox Dev Tools. It’s an invaluable tool for anyone who cares about page load performance and ...
How to score a perfect 100/100 on Google PageSpeed with a Middleman static site behind Nginx.
After more than a year of hard work we are excited to release GIMP 2.9.6 featuring many improvements, some new features, translation updates for 23 languages, and 204 bug fixes.
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
Using spaced repetition in conjunction with other study techniques can help you memorize information much, much more quickly. Here's how to do it.
[Note 2017-12-29: the news.ycombinator.com discussion of this post is unusually useful. You may want to read it first.] [Note 2018-09-01:...
Yes, you need to write yourself an API. You'll thank me later.
With a Raspberry Pi or other modern single-board computers, you can make very simple toys. I started with the hello world of interactive apps: the soundboard. But even then, I was too ambitious. The soundpad Since the main target was kids. I wanted a simple, screen-less toy that would teach …
