I signed up for the excellent fastai MOOC recently, and one of the project ideas I had was the idea of adding bokehs to selfies using Deep learning. Most phones have a not so great selfie (front-side) camera and therefore this idea has some merits.
Leo Ostera — making computers do things
I switched away from Google Analytics to Plausible for a better user experience, privacy and performance
Your code might be perfect and never fail, but unfortunately the outside world is less reliable. Sometimes, other people's programs crash or freeze. Networks go down; printers catch on fire . Your code needs to be prepared for this: every time you read from the network, attempt to acquire an inter-process lock, or…
Date: 2020-01-27 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00012-clang-compiler-hacking.md
Remember the old video game Space Invaders? Some of its sound effects were provided by a chip called the 76477 Complex Sound Generation ch...
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Memory leaks are like parasites of an application, they creep up into your systems unnoticed and don't cause any harm initially, but once leaks are strong
Percona has developed a new pg_stat_monitor plugin for PostgreSQL which captures all the details in order to provide deep query performance insights.
Posted by James Wexler, Software Engineer, Google AI Building effective machine learning (ML) systems means asking a lot of questions. It's not eno...
From August 15th, GitLab Support will no longer be manually removing MFA from free accounts.
Recently on Twitter there was a maintainer of a Python project who had a couple of bugs filed against their project due to builds failing (this particular project doesn't provide wheels, only sdists). Eventually it came out that the project was using a pyproject.toml file because that's
80% of the people involved in software development spend 80% of their time developing. Why use a tool designed for planning to manage dev team activities?
Why email registration is dead. How removing it improved retention by a solid 4.5%
Ever tried to send a push notification to your phone? How hard can it be? I was surprised when I tried to push a simple push notification without involving a third party. It's not just hard they have made it near impossible to send a simple push notification without subscribing to their service. Moreover it doesn't…
A while ago I had an on-site job interview at Google. The position I was interviewing for was a Google SRE. SRE stands for Site Reliability Engineering. Site reliability engineers (SREs) are both software engineers and systems administrators, responsible for Google's production services end-to-end. I interviewed…
Find out how a single JS package can come with 19k dependencies.
Thousands of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers are less than thrilled about their hands-on, foundational skills. Here’s a look at a recent survey that identified some of the bigger skills gaps, and some thoughts about how…
At some point in my software engineering/leadership career, it became evident that I was expected to have Impostor Syndrome. Indeed, it became clear that all underrepresented people in tech were expected to have Impostor Syndrome. I noticed this mostly in groups of women where especially the younger women would talk…
A co-working space for restaurants of the future.
Congress is exactly where discussions about tech and society should be happening. Then, a list of questions for every tech CEO.
Chatops is a ladder
Chronicling the design of the spacecraft and systems depicted in the book, Delta-v, by Daniel Suarez:
Just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, now live in households with enough discretionary spending to be considered middle class or rich.
This post is based on an internal training I prepared for my employer, Locksley, and showcases some source-level techniques for improving C++ compilation times.
