Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
apple's 'quicklook' cache, may leak encrypted data
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds.
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can immediately identify this as a likely symptom of a memory leak. But when we say “memory leak”, what do we actually mean? In my experience, apparent memory leaks divide into three broad categories, each with somewhat different…
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Consider whether we're advocating for Firefox in the right way, on the right grounds.
The Java ecosystem has always been built on a high quality $free (zero-cost) JDK available from Oracle, and previously Sun. This is as true...
OfferZen flips the normal recruitment model around, so instead of applying for jobs, companies send you interview requests with upfront salary.
Backblaze has 99,636 spinning hard drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models in operation in our data centers.
Update 2018-06-19: Yubico updated their statement on 2018-06-18, apologizing and crediting us: https://twitter.com/Yubico/status/1008816076610625536
If you work with anything that can be modeled mathematically, you most likely know that many things you work on can be expressed with algebras. However, if you are not a graduate of a computer science course or similar you might not know how ubiquitous they are and how often you rely on some of them. (And I don’t mean…
The road to a solid-state switch was a long and complex one. It began with the discovery that certain materials behaved oddly with respect to electricity – differently than any existing theor…
Apple reported its third quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
Hey, it's Zamenhofa Tago, otherwise known as Esperanto Book Day. Read on to learn more about the international language and why it's so cool.
My experiences with Gradle and why I finally moved back to Maven
Address Verification allows you to be sure you are securely communicating with the right person, while PGP support adds encrypted email interoperability.
What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take on Little Wing with…
In the frustratingly fast-paced, ever-shifty and profoundly fashion-driven JavaScript web development ecosystem, it’s not easy to find something that one can even stand to use, to say nothing…
Thanks, Hamilton1. The two reports look like excellent studies. At first scan, it looks like there are still things to examine though. For example, if ‘Oumuamua is considered representative of extra-solar objects in its debris trail, then the idea that extra solar meteorites showing up, say in Greenland, is in real…
In everything we do, we play the long or the short game. The short game is easy, pleasurable, and offers visible and immediate benefits. But it almost never leads to success. Here's how to play the long game.
At Recode’s Code Media conference on Feb. 13, 2018 (a few hours ago as I write this), they live streamed an interview with Ronny Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap and NBA commissioner Adam Silver. The int…
V8 v6.8 features reduced memory consumption and several performance improvements.
We're incredibly excited to announce the new partnership between Status and Nim.
