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A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD + Patents license
A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD+Patents license. Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, nor is this legal advice.
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Modifying Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 to run on three immersive monitors
How I modified DOSBox and the original Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 from 1989 to run on my immersive multi-display flight simulator set up.
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Writing parsers like it is 2017
Writing parsers like it is 2017 Chifflier & Couprie, SPW’17 With thanks to Glyn Normington for pointing this paper out to me. Earlier this year we looked at ‘System programming in R…
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Exactly-once Semantics: How Kafka Does it
Exactly-once is a hard problem to solve, but we've done it. Available now in Apache Kafka 0.11, exactly-once semantics.
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How many jobs really require college?
We send too many people to college and high school -- by factor of five
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An Inferno on the Head of a Pin
Today’s processors contain billions of heat-generating transistors in an ever shrinking space. The power budget might go from: * 1000 watts on a specialized server * 100 watts on desktops * 30 watts on laptops * 5 watts on tablets * 1 or 2 watts on a phone * 100 milliwatts on an embedded
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Benchmarking TensorFlow on Cloud CPUs: Cheaper Deep Learning Than Cloud GPUs
Using CPUs instead of GPUs for deep learning training in the cloud is cheaper because of the massive cost differential afforded by preemptible instances.
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The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Readable Clojure
Some advices to writing Clojure code
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The design of Chacha20
Chacha20 is a secure, fast, and amazingly simple encryption algorithm. Let's take a look.
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Redis Streams and the Unified Log
Building a log-based architecture that’s fast, efficient, and resilient on the new stream data structure in Redis.
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Quitting Caffeine
As I write this, I have been off of caffeine for two years. I had my last caffeinated beverage on August 13, 2015. Here are my experiences with quitting caffeine and what I’ve learned:
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How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest?
alanarnette.com is a site covering big mountain climbing including Everest, K2, and the 7 summits. All based on Alan's experience including Everest in 2011 and the oldest American at 58 to summit K2 in 2014.
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How to break a Captcha system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning
Let’s hack the world’s most popular Wordpress CAPTCHA Plug-in
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When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart
I wrote this in 2012, when CloudFlare (an almost awkwardly popular CDN) introduced a bug into websites they hosted using some of their "advanced features" via injected JavaScript that managed to not just break the website but lock up entire web browers by tickling a scheduler starvation bug in WebCore. This issue was…
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Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
How I started using Linux and the things I love about Arch Linux
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Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
It might sound silly if you’re not a heavy user of browser tabs, but I am convinced that the lack of favicons is holding back Safari’s market share.
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Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA
The Wikimedia Foundation’s mission is to support the communities of readers and contributors who share and consume information on Wikipedia and the other free-knowledge projects. Privacy and anonym…