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Must-See JavaScript Dev Tools
“JavaScript sucks for large apps because it can’t even identify the type of a variable, and it sucks for refactoring.” ~ lots of very…
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I Want Your AOL CDs
Yes, yes I do. As you might expect, someone who does a lot of something (collecting) like I do, in a pretty public fashion, tends to get some pretty shiny-polished chestnuts tossed over the fence. …
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Lost C64 Games: Daffy Duck – 1992 Hi-Tec
Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games
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Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang
The first Go challenge is over. So by now, I can take my Erlang solution and write about how you would go around solving the challenge in…
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Cross compilation just got better in Go 1.5
Cross compilation is one of Go’s headline features. I’ve written about it a few times , and others have taken this work and built better tooling around it.
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Profiling Python in Production
This post is about the ways we approached instrumentation, and some tools you can use to optimize your own apps (including code). Learn how we reduced CPU usage by 80% through Python profiling.
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402: Payment Required
I’ve been interested to watch the increasing debate around ad blocking in iOS 9, and especially the heated nature of the discussions, which…
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EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Last month, I announced that we would soon be making EC2 Dedicated Hosts available. As I wrote at the time, this model allows you to control the mapping of EC2 instances to the underlying physical servers. Dedicated Hosts allow you to: Bring Your Own Licenses – You can bring your existing server-based licenses for…
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Inside Amazon
Gosh, it seems that my employer’s at-work culture is the talk of the Internet. Don’t know if I should share on the topic, but I feel the urge and bloggers with the urge gotta blog.
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Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014)
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Four MLs (and a Python)
I wrote a small command-line text processing program in four different ML-derived languages, to try to get a feel for how they compare in terms of syntax, library, and build-run cycles. ML is a fam…
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Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search Can Leak Previous Searches
Note: This information has been disclosed to Google appropriately, they have chosen to not fix this behavior.
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That Didn’t Need to Take an Hour
Have you ever finished something and thought to yourself, “That didn’t need to take an hour?” In my world, I have an endless stream of requests to do something for
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CSS Based Attack fontface
In this post, I would like to share about new CSS based attack with unicode-range descriptor of @font-face rule . Using this technique, an...
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Training a Neural Net to Generate CSS
A log of experiments done on the site design, intended to render pages more readable, focusing on the challenge of testing a static site, page width, fonts, plugins, and effects of advertising.
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A Million Lines of Bad Code
This is the story of some bad code I wrote.
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The Backing Up of the Internet Archive Continues
A little over a month ago, I cooked up a grandiose plan with the Archive Team to back up the Internet Archive, and discussed what that might entail and how one might approach it. How’s that t…
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What interests Reddit? A network analysis of 84M comments by 200K users
Reddit.com is a popular social media and news aggregation site. Here I analyze over 80 million comments by 200K redditors to discover what topics interest them.
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Stephen King's “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
"I really am going to tell you everything you need to pursue a successful and financially rewarding career writing fiction, and I really am going to do it in ten minutes, which is exactly how long it took me to learn."
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Building the Tamagotchi Singularity
I also gave a talk about this project on the Hackaday Superconference 2015. There is a video available of that if you'd rather watch me talk. You can also directly view the end result if you so please.
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Why I dislike systemd
As a Linux sysadmin in the 2010s, it's hard not to have an opinion on systemd. But what I find baffling about it is how divisive it is; nearly everyone (or at least the most vocal crowd) seems to either love it or hate it. When I tell people that systemd was the catalyst for my defection to OpenBSD last year, their…