2011
Choose SQL
Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application. I think I can’t make my self clearer.
2012
You’re working in the wrong place if you’re working in an open office
Open offices misunderstand psychology and design
2013
How banks are getting around open banking and PSD2
Banks are scared. They’ve seen the rise of the new world of open APIs, apps and analytics and know that their organisations are not yet ready or fit to change to that world. What to do? Well, the easiest thing to do is to block access to the bank’s data. If third party FinTech firms...
2014
2015
Generating faces of cats using Generative Adversarial Networks
I experimented with generating faces of cats using Generative adversarial networks (GAN). I wanted to try DCGAN, WGAN and WGAN-GP in low and higher resolutions. I used the CAT dataset (yes this is …
2016
Unroll.me
Link to: http://blog.unroll.me/we-can-do-better/
2017
2018
Cypherpunk Desert Bus: My Role in the 2016 Zcash Trusted Setup Ceremony
Update: taking this down for now until some questions about the deterministicbuilds are answered; currently I do not believe the Zcash trusted setup shouldbe...
2019
Simulating Chutes and Ladders in Python
Edit 12/19/2017: added a new subsection on analyzing Chutes & Ladders as an Absorbing Markov Chain.
2020
Render Multimedia in Pure C
In a previous article I demonstrated video filtering with C and a unix pipeline . Thanks to the ubiquitous support for the ridiculously simple Netpbm formats — specifically the “Portable PixMap” ( .ppm , P6 ) binary format — it’s trivial to parse and produce image data in any language without image libraries. Video…
2021
Can QML become the next standard for web UI?
Recently, I came across a few articles [1, 2, 3] comparing Qt’s modern UI framework – Qt Quick and its own declarative language QML to HTML, with QML coming out as a clear winner in sev…
2022
Gerrymandering with geographically compact districts
The following tweet has been making the rounds on social media: Notice that since the Democrats won overall, it would be impossible for Republicans to win all seven districts, no matter how the map…
2023
The Scientific Case for P≠NP
Out there in the wider world—OK, OK, among Luboš Motl, and a few others who comment on this blog—there appears to be a widespread opinion that P≠NP is just “a fashionable dogma of…
2024
What's wrong with the default build tool for Scala
SBT is the default build tool for the Scala programming community: you can build Scala using other tools, but the vast majority of the community uses SBT. Despite that, nobody seems to like SBT: people say it's confusing, complicated, and opaque. This post will deeply analyze what exactly it is about SBT that people…
2025
Cars and second order consequences
Electric and autonomy are rolling through the car industry, changing everything about it. But though they transform gasoline and car accidents, they could change a lot more besides - everything from cigarettes to parking. It's the second-order consequences that are hardest to see, but most interesti
2026
2027
OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X
The Huawei MateBook X is a high-quality 13" ultra-thin laptop with a fanless Core i5 processor. It is obviously biting the design of the Apple 12" MacBook , but it does have some notable improvements such as a slightly larger screen, a more usable keyboard with adequate key travel, and 2 USB-C ports.
2028
2029
One Line of Code That Compromises Your Server
Demonstrating how a weak session secret can allow an attacker to take control of a server
2030
Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation
I awoke this morning to find my account on Twitter ( @briankrebs ) had attracted almost 12,000 new followers overnight. Then I noticed I’d gained almost as many followers as the number of re-tweets (RTs) earned for a tweet I published on Tuesday . The tweet stated how every time I tweet something related to Russian…
2031
Eight years of victory
The big story this year was last month's surprise acquisition of Pinboard's long-time nemesis Delicious. This illustrates the importance of always having a backup nemesis, an area where Pinboard leads the industry.
2032
The Power of Tmux Hooks
The default tmux prefix key is Ctrl - b , for the remainder of this article, we will refer to the prefix key as prefix .
2033
Another Case of Obscure CPU Nondeterminism
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
2034
The Asynchronous Computability Theorem
In this post I describe the Asynchronous Computability Theorem, which uses tools from Algebraic Topology to show whether a task is solvable…
2035
2036
Lightmap Compression in the Witness
In my initial implementation of our lightmapping technology I simply stored lightmap textures in RGBA16F format. This produced excellent results, but at a very high memory cost. I later switched to the R10G10B10A2 fixed point format to reduce the memory footprint of our lightmaps, but that introduce
2037
Apple’s China Problem
Apple had mixed earnings: most of the world was great, but China was bad again. The reason is that in China WeChat matters more than iOS.
2038
The End to Apple’s Cash Dilemma
With the U.S. Senate passing its tax bill earlier this month, the probability of a U.S. corporate tax overhaul has never been higher. While differences between the House and Senate tax bills still have to be reconciled in conference, the end to Apple's cash dilemma is in sight. Both bills move the U
2039
The bloat of AMP
AMP had just been popularised at the time I was considering rebuilding this site. It sounded like as a great idea. Faster websites are right up my alley. And who doesn’t want an SEO boost? I mean, I still can’t make Get Cryptolocker show up on Google. And no, I don’t want to buy your Wordpress theme, even if it is…
2040
Metaprogramming is less fun in D
Despite the speaker’s calm voice and the slides showing almost nothing but code in C++ (which isn’t what you’d normally expect from a keynote), Louis Dionne’...