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NixOS 16.09 released
This section lists the release notes for each stable version of NixOS and current unstable revision.
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World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly
A few days ago, a new type of gold/item scam made the rounds. Usually scamming in MMORPGs is done using social engineering techniques, e.g. an attacker sells a fake item code for alleged in-game items like mounts to a potential victim for in-game currency. But this most recent kind of attack does not only involve…
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Shrink Go binaries 7x with this one weird trick
Ok, I lied, there’s no weird trick. However, you can easily reduce a Go binary size by more than 6 times with some flags and common tools.
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Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work
After years of working from coffee shops and couches, there's one thing I'm certain of: working remotely is hard. Incredibly hard. On paper, it sounds all rainbows and unicorns—you get to choose your own hours, you don't need to deal with a boss looming over your shoulder, and you can...
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How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience
Posted by Sergey Levine (Google Brain Team), Timothy Lillicrap (DeepMind), Mrinal Kalakrishnan (X)The ability to learn from experience will likely ...
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How we found a bug in Amazon ELB
Troubleshooting of an Amazon ELB bug found in production using the Sysdig and Wireshark analysis tools and following a strictly top-down approach.
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The future of SaaS hosted Git repository pricing
At GitLab, we think per-user pricing is the best pricing model because it is more predictable, less restrictive on code, and aligned with value the organization gets.
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Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 4: What's running on the system
This post describes our continuing efforts to restore a Xerox Alto. We checked that the low-level microcode tasks are running correctly a...
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Building an OpenBSD Router
The Ultimate OpenBSD Router
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Introduction to strace
There will come a time when you will find yourself asking “What the heck is that process doing?”. To uncover the mysteries behind the behaviour of a process, we have a tool called strace .
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Extracting city blocks from OpenStreetMap data
Extracting blocks within a city as GeoJSON polygons from OpenStreetMap data
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Combinatorial Music Theory (1991)
graph theory, music theory
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The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad
One thing that works well in practice in cases where you really don’t want to process single bytes at a time is to use a union for going from one type to another. Granted, writing one member of a union and reading from a different one also isn’t allowed per the standard, but every compiler I’ve come across allows it…
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On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search results
As most people are aware, Google search results are constantly changing and evolving. In the past couple of years, there has been a conscious and very deliberate shift – and not just by Googl…
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Seattle: Highest Minimum Wage, Lowest Unemployment Rate
Doomsayers Keep Getting It Wrong on Higher Minimum Wages In Seattle, unemployment has fallen and business has boomed since the city raised its pay floor. Bloomberg, October 21, 2016 In 2014, Seattle passed an ordinance to eventually raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour, giving the Pacific Northwest…
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Final features of C++17
With last weeks C++ committee meeting in Oulu, C++17 is feature complete and on its way to become an international standard. After the last meeting in Jacksonville I had little hope to see big surprises, but Oulu managed to add a few important and interesting features to the new standard. There is a very good overview…
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My personal burnout – Lessons learned
Last week I was on the My Life For The Code podcast and had a really good talk with Shawn Rakowski (He has Continue Reading
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$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details
An update on my kids' Mineserver project
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Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process
How can Automattic consistently hire the best people without ever having a single voice conversation? Let’s face it, hiring is tough. When you ask startup founders what their biggest challenge is, …
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How a College Student Used Creative Commons to Dominate Political Photography
Gage Skidmore has photographed nearly every presidential candidate since 2008 — and by giving away all of his images for free, he has quickly become the Internet's most prominent political photographer.
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Why I’m never buying HTC again
I’m not a tech blogger, much less an activist. I usually never write reviews about tech gizmos. I just buy devices that I think will be useful, and if my expectations aren’t met, I just…