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The Architecture of Mailinator (2007)
Almost 3.5 years ago I started the Mailinator(tm) service. I got the bulk of the idea from my drunk roommate at the time and the first incar...
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VuePress: a static site generator that excels at working with documentation
TinaCMS is the successor to Forestry.io, now maintained by SSW. Migrate your Forestry site to Tina with our step-by-step guide and enjoy enhanced visual editing features.
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The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With
One of the effects of GDPR—the new EU General Data Protection Regulation—is that we’re all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider PayPal, that just released a list of over 600 companies they share customer data with. Here’s a good visualization of that data. Is…
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A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet
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Build a VM step by step with Rust
Covers general elements of computer hardware useful to know before reading the rest of the tutorials
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Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
Launching the most powerful version of Vivaldi yet. Today’s update includes Sync and over 1,500 other improvements since the first version of Vivaldi.
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To Delete Facebook or Not to Delete Facebook? That Is Not the Question
Since the Cambridge Analytica news hit headlines, calls for users to ditch the platform have picked up speed. Whether or not it has a critical impact on the company’s user base or bottom line, the message from #DeleteFacebook is clear: users are fed up. EFF is not here to tell you whether or not to...
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Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda
Why Go’s stability and simple deployments is a good fit for a serverless environment.
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Thoughts on, and pictures of, the original Macintosh User Manual
I recently purchased an original Macintosh User Manual (thanks eBay !). I had seen one at a garage sale, and was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers. I figured I could learn something about helping make innovation happen.
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Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (2011)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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How a Political Engineering Firm Exposed Their Code Base
Political data firm AggregateIQ exposed IT assets that raise questions for society about how technology is being used in recent US political history.
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How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system
As mentioned in This Week In F-Droid 17, Tutanota is now on F-Droid. In this special post Ivan from Tutanota, tells us the story. Hi, I’m Ivan and I am devel...
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Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation
Introduction Writing documentation is like trying to hit a moving target. The way a system works changes constantly, so as soon...
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The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (2012)
Master the Feynman Technique: Nobel laureate's 4-step learning method to understand anything deeply through teaching, simplification, and systematic review.
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Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials
One of the most exciting announcements at this WWDC was the introduction of a long-awaited “dark mode” in macOS 10.14 Mojave, which lets you use a whole desktop with all the apps on it in a dark theme, instead of just the dock and the menu bar as before.
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Break down of a C64 demo effect
This generated a lot of lively discussion on twitter and /r/c64 . A bunch of people were curious as to how it works and I promised to explain it on my blog.
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Portability benchmark of Dota2 on MacOS
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”, the twenty-third alpha version …
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On paying for software
The business of software is a bit of a miracle. Properly designed, software isn’t more expensive to create when more people use it. In fact, when network effects are involved, it’s actu…
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Wikipedia bans agenda-driven editor, but punishes the messenger too
A look at a Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners and journalists
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Finding Pwned Passwords with 1Password
1Password integrates with Pwned Passwords, a feature of Have I Been Pwned that allows you to check if your passwords have been leaked on the Internet.
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Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
It’s not every day that I check my office mailbox and, amid the junk brochures, find 500 pages on the biggest questions facing civilization—all of them, basically—by possibly the …
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Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
There are all sorts of clever things you can do with Facebook’s ad platform. One example I ran across recently is the ability to snipe a…