Across the USA by Train for Just $213
Turns out, you don’t need a car to see America.
80x40
The git repo as art.
Is Extended Random a Malicious NSA Plot?
Dual_EC was almost certainly an NSA backdoor. Extended Random is the TLS extension that would have made it practical to exploit. Did NSA plant that one too? A look at the evidence.
Why I Don't Hate Git: Hidden Consistency
Some thoughts on why git’s complex user interface works so well in practice.
A New Era at the Tor Project
Andrew Lewman, our current Executive Director, is leaving The Tor Project to take a position at...
Grafana 2.0 Released
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
Senator Wants to Make the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Even Easier to Abuse
This summer, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse introduced an amendment to the flawed Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA) that would make it even worse, by expanding the broken Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). EFF has proposed common sense changes to this federal anti-hacking law, many of which were...
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace
Stephen Wolfram shares what he learned in researching Ada Lovelace's life, writings about the Analytical Engine, and computation of Bernoulli numbers.
The Software Developer's Sketchbook
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
Read it on alexvking.com
Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
Posted by Tim Graham on Sept. 23, 2015
Official Android 6.0 SDK and Final M Preview
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Covariance and Contravariance
Subtypes and supertypes are a common part of modern programming. Covariance and contravariance tell us where subtypes are accepted and where supertypes are accepted in place of the original type. This shows up frequently in most of the programming most of us do, but many developers are unaware of the concepts beyond a…
Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class
The Graduate School of Education and the Computer Science Department engaged in a joint research project to advance new approaches to teaching.
Building a lower-latency GC
We’ve been doing a bunch of work recently on improving the responsiveness of OCaml’s garbage collector. I thought it would be worth discussing these developm...