Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME
With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME as well so our users can continue to access all content the…
XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
“ The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.” – Phil Wadler, POPL 2003
Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013
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Wolfram Programming Cloud Is Live
Stephen Wolfram announces the Wolfram Programming Cloud: redefining the programming process for all. Type something, run it immediately, see results.
Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards
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Valuations
People have been saying that startup valuations are really high for about 3 years now. I myself feel that they are high, but I have no idea when they are likely to change. It’s mostly investors...
RTFM 0day in iOS apps
DIN INFO IP Adresse ( IPv4 eller IPv6) 104.165.132.197 Port: 47376 Hostnavn: 104.165.132.197 X-Forward IP Adresse(r): Browser (UserAgent): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/152.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Forespørgsels Timestamp (Unix tid): 1793882617 Forespørgsels…
Analysis of suspected MH370 pings recorded by Ocean Shield
So this is a bit of a deviation from my normal MATLAB oriented posts. In-fact MATLAB was not used once in this analysis! I've been followi...
Getting Organized with Org Mode
I’ve been using Emacs Org mode for nearly a year now. For a while I mostly just used it to take and organize notes, but over time I’ve discovered it’s an incredibly useful tool for managing projects and tasks, writing and publishing documents, keeping track of time and todo lists, and maintaining a journal. Project…
Mayday.us
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Are We Welcome Entrepreneurs or Unwanted Criminals?
Almost deported in First Class
Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
What's the first thing you do when you find a bug or see a missing feature in an open source project? Check out the project page and submit a patch!
Announcing Xamarin 3
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
Incubators are Bullshit
I am often asked what I think about incubators. Short Answer: Incubators are bullshit. Most incubators are like the McDonalds edition of starting a company.
Common LibreSSL porting mistakes
The other day I wrote an article discussing LibreSSL , and the common mistakes being made by those thinking they know how to port it to oth...
When your IP traffic in AWS disappears into a black hole
When we’d spin up new machines, some would fail our health checks. There was no network traffic between these boxes and our database machines.. The ARP tables on the database boxes had cached, outdated MAC addresses from no-longer-living boxes.
Tor in Google Summer of Code 2014
Interested in coding on Tor and getting paid for it by Google? If you are a student, we have...
My Surreal UberX Experience
A VC's perspective on how modern tech platforms like Uber break down communication barriers and enable seamless interactions - even between hearing and deaf users.