Fallback from CDN to local jQuery
There's a great website called http://whoownsmyavailability.com that serves as ...
How I got hired at a Y Combinator start-up without the necessary credentials
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What I've Been Thinking About
I’m starting to think about my next book, which will be about power and the Internet—from the perspective of security. My objective will be to describe current trends, explain where those trends are leading us, and discuss alternatives for avoiding that outcome. Many of my recent essays have touched on various facets…
How Erlang does scheduling
In this, I describe why Erlang is different from most other language runtimes. I also describe why it often forgoes throughput for lower la...
Shiva – More than a RESTful API to your music collection
Music for me is not only part of my daily life, it is an essential part. It helps me concentrate, improves my mood, distracts me and/or helps me relax. This ...
Node.js Stream Playground
This summer I had the opportunity to attend NodeConf and it was a fantastic experience. I really appreciated how every session was a hands-on coding session: I felt like I walked away knowing how to put a bunch of advice directly into practice.
Licensing in a Post Copyright World
Some thoughts about the absolute madness that is currently going on with licensing in the Open Source community and how github’s license chooser is making it worse.
Replacing Clever Code with Unremarkable Code in Go
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Clojure vs. Scala
Last week, someone posted a question on the Clojure group asking for a comparison between Clojure and Scala. Since my most popular blog pos...
The Economics of Evil Google
Search as a public utility?
Effective Scala
Scala is one of the main application programming languages used at Twitter. Much of our infrastructure is written in Scala and we have several large libraries supporting our use. While highly effective, Scala is also a large language, and our experiences have taught us to practice great care in its application. What…
Django 1.6 beta 1 released
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on June 28, 2013
Don't use autofill in your browser
What every WordPress site owner can do to improve WordPress security. Even the less tech savvy ones. Read all about in in this article!
Taking a stand on open source and patents
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits
"You're smart too late and old too soon." - Mike Tyson I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.96! OS/CPU Win...