Apple will host WWDC virtually, beginning June 22
Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference virtually, beginning June 22.
Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)
The creative studio of NYC-based designer and creative director, Able Parris
A principled approach to system design and programming
Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering.
The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance
Why TOAST is the best thing since sliced bread
SBA Disaster Loans: Unofficial guide for freelancers and startups
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What Color Is This? Part 2
More info about the algorithms we use to detect our items' colors
Remembering Conway
Gosper's Glider Gun in Conway's Game of Life I'd known of Conway since my early teens. I remember reading about his Game of Life in an old Scientific American someone gave me. The article (a quick search tells me) was published in October 1970, so I'm guessing I saw it in the early 70s, perhaps 1972. I was hooked.
Confidential VMs
Google Cloud will now offer the ability to encrypt data in use, while it’s being processed in a Google data center
Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
Welcome to this post, in which we’ll be taking a trip through the wild and bumpy ride that has been Vitamin D & sunlight research over the past few decades, and what it might mean for COVID-19. As with my previous post, before any non-specialist attempts to write something on COVID-19, we should wonder: are any actual…
Assange Hearing Day 7
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH This morning we went straight in to the evidence of Clive Stafford Smith, a dual national British/American lawyer licensed to practice in the UK. He had founded Reprieve in 1999 originally to oppose the death penalty, but after 2001 it had branched out into torture, illicit detention and…
An Honest Review of Gatsby
I write about software, building companies, and whatever else I'm obsessed with.
Web Authentication Methods Compared
This article looks at the most commonly used web authentication methods.
Being Slow to Criticise
This post is not about that story. This post is about a comment made by one of the readers in the forum where I saw it.
SAS Rescue 3 Trapped British Diplomats in Albania
My diplomatic life true revealing stories behind the hype is a story that takes the sheen off the perception of a glamorous and privileged lifestyle.
ThinkPad 560E
I’ve been idly looking for one of the mid-90s ThinkPads known to have perfect OpenStep/Rhapsody support for years as a fun collector piece, but been unwilling to pay eBay prices. The other week I scored a pristine IBM ThinkPad 560E for $20 in a Shopgoodwill auction, below is notes on getting it up and running, plus…
New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
Music Production on Guix System
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation
Grafana is an open source visualization and dashboarding technology that allows you to explore your metrics, logs, and traces no matter where the data is.
I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog (2017)
It’s surprisingly easy to hire a blog editor, and it provides tremendous value.
Writing a technical book: from idea to print
Ever wanted to know what it's like to write a technical book? This post details my experience co-authoring an O'Reilly book with my colleagues Lak and Mike. Our book, Machine Learning Design Patterns, is available to order now and all royalties go to Girls Who Code.
Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
Unsupervised learning of probably symmetric deformable 3D objects from images
We propose a method to learn weakly symmetric deformable 3D object categories from raw single-view images, without ground-truth 3D, multiple views, 2D/3D keypoints, prior shape models or any other supervision.