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IMAP Email Backup
Use imapgrab.py to backup IMAP email.
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Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources
I recently created a macOS app called Slack Lite, which beats Slack's desktop app across a few performance metrics. Slack Lite uses Slack's official UI, so it's visually indistinguishable from the official client. Even so, Slack Lite uses 5x fewer threads, 3.5x less time to startup, and significantly less CPU. In the…
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A review of Dominion, 4000 plays later (2012)
This was an entry for the Voice of Experience review contest, which aims to compile reviews written by those that are experienced with the games they review. Like reading a novel, playing a board g…
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We Replaced an SSD with Storage Class Memory
MongoDB's blog includes technical tutorials, MongoDB best practices, customer stories, and industry news related to the leading non-relational database.
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Myst: the Drawbacks to Success
Robyn Miller, one half of the pair of brothers who created the adventure game known as Myst with their small studio Cyan, tells a story about its development that’s irresistible to a writer like me. When the game was nearly finished, he says, its publisher Brøderbund insisted that it be put through “focus-group…
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Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies
Let structure emerge organically. When it’s imposed from the start, you prematurely constrain what may emerge and artificially compress the nuanced relationships between ideas.
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The FDA's perpetual process machine
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; economic development; long-term growth; code as language.
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NYC taxi meter and options pricing
An experiment analyzing the NYC taxi dataset through the eyes of an options trader.
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How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
Learn how Google Cloud ramped up to handle high demand for Google Meet in light of COVID-19
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January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all
By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all! On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These […]
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Bruce Perens: Invasion of the Ethical Licenses (2019)
About 23 years ago, I created the Debian Free Software Guidelines to help the Debian developers decide what software was permissible to include in Debian, which aspired to be 100% Free Software, and what should be consigned to a "non-free" repository upon which Debian would never depend. Nine months later, those…
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Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations
All-in-one incident management software for modern teams. FireHydrant helps you plan, respond, and resolve faster with smart alerting, on-call scheduling, AI-powered workflows, and post-incident retros.
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IPFS 0.7.0, the SECIO retirement edition
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
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Finding Goroutine Bugs with TLA+
My job these days is teaching TLA+ and formal methods: specifying designs to find bugs in them. But just knowing the syntax isn’t enough to write specs, and it helps to have examples to draw from. I recently read Chris Siebenmann’s Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy and thought it would make a good case study…
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White hat social engineering: How to become an admin of a system
Warning: Half-satire, half-truth
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Lamphone: Real-Time Passive Sound Recovery from Light Bulb Vibrations
Recent studies have suggested various side-channel attacks for eavesdropping sound by analyzing the side effects of sound waves on nearby objects (e.g., a bag of chips and window) and devices (e.g., motion sensors). These methods pose a great threat to privacy, however they are limited in one of the
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Systems Thinking and Quality
Wise words from Russell Ackoff regarding systems thinking and quality improvement – and what we can learn from them
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Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple reported its fourth quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, October 29, 2020.
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Fast high-level programming languages
Python and R are slow when they can’t rely on functionality or libraries backed by C/C++. They are inefficient not only for certain algorithm development but also for common tasks such as FASTQ parsing. Using these languages limits the reach of biologists. Sometimes you may have a brilliant idea but can’t deliver a…
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Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design
How a misguided attempt to achieve cross platform UI leads to terrible experiences and kills the open web
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Classes are a way of writing higher order functions
Joe and I recently kicked off a re-read of SICP . I can say that it is the most interesting textbook I have gone through. Imagine, you begin with just 4 or 5 constructs, and you end up building algebraic equation solvers, circuit simulators, and even logic programming languages. Because you start off with such few…
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We View Nikola’s Response as a Tacit Admission of Securities Fraud
Milton should be working with the formerly big 3. He is just another fraud like musk…
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Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned
After a first experience with ReasonML, I wanted to check if its parent language, OCaml, was also that good. It took me an entire game to form a clear opinion.
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Homelab: Intel NUC with the ESXi Hypervisor
In this blog post I tell my experience mounting a minimalist homelab with a Intel NUC and the ESXi hypervisor.
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Conventions for Command Line Options
This article was discussed on Hacker News and critiqued on Wandering Thoughts ( 2 , 3 ).