CoreOS and the the Future of the Internet
Use Equinix Fabric to establish direct, low-latency connections to a variety of services providers.
Syntax across languages
Looking for operator or function names? Well have a look at the following and remember using existing one may ease the transition :)
World's first white laser
Researchers at ASU have proven that semiconductor lasers are capable of emitting over the full visible color spectrum, which is necessary to produce a white laser.
Avoiding Reflection (And Such) in Go
So, as previous posts show , I like Go well enough. But as a computer-language polyglot, "Go programmer" is not part of my identity, and I try for a balanced view. It is very human to go overboard in both praise and criticism, both easy to find online.
Office Papermaking System That Turns Waste Paper into New Paper
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How widely used are security-based HTTP response headers?
In this blog I look at how widespread the usage of common security based HTTP response headers are in the Alexa Top 1 Million most visited sites.
A Bestseller Book That Didn't Exist
You know Jean Shepherd as author of the beloved A Christmas Story. But before that, he conspired to get a book that didn't exist onto The New York Times Best Seller List. Read how he pulled off the Hoax of the Century.
WebVR lands in Firefox Nightly
More than half the Fortune 100 trust Markmonitor to protect their brands online.
Live-Coding Blender with Hy
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Goodbye, OpenStack
I just removed myself from every OpenStack mailing list and meetup. I’m sure I’ll still use it, but I don’t see myself as part of that community any longer. When I was at DreamHost, I really felt like part of that community and that I could help make it better. However, in the three years since I’ve left DreamHost, I…
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Kubernetes from the ground up: the API server
This is the second post in a series on Kubernetes , the open source cluster manager. The first post was about the kubelet .
Tracking a Bluetooth Skimmer Gang in Mexico (Part I)
-Sept. 9, 12:30 p.m. CT, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: Halfway down the southbound four-lane highway from Cancun to the ancient ruins in Tulum, traffic inexplicably slowed to a halt. There was some sort of checkpoint ahead by the Mexican Federal Police. I began to wonder whether it was a good idea to have brought along…
Matrix Computations on the GPU in Clojure
Clojure Fast Matrix Library - GPU and native CPU
Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern
Owing to its historic roots as a derivative of the original Berkeley Systems Distribution (BSD), OpenBSD includes a great deal of old code. Many files bear copyright notices from the year 1980, and in some cases, even older. Although not explicitly stated as a project goal, keeping OpenBSD modern is an important part…
Why you should wait on upgrading to .Net 4.6
Update (August 11th): A patch for this bug has been released by Microsoft. Here’s their update to the advisory: We released an updated version of RyuJIT tod...
The Case Against the Universal Basic Income
On a Universal Basic Income, full employment and avoiding libertarian traps It's the summer of 1986. T...
Coding Like a Girl
(this was originally given as a talk at AlterConf in Oakland)
The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases
A Personal Knowledgebase (PK) is any system that you use to store and retrieve general information. The key here is that the system should be capable of storing a large amount information on any number of topics and, ideally, provide some type of way to view relationships between the information.