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Open Problems in Robotics
Robotics is one of those things the business funny papers regularly wonder about; it seems like consumer robotics is a revolutionary trillion dollar market which is perpetually 20-years away -more…
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Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem.
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Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days
We helped frontline to fight against covid-19 by creating a Realtime Patient Monitoring system. In this blog post you can find out how we did it using go and vuejs
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Habits of High-Functioning Teams
I often struggle to explain what it means to be part of a high-functioning software team. Sure, there are mountains of literature, and an entire genre of LinkedIn thought leadership that professes all kinds of guidelines and heuristics about what makes teams work, but in my experience, it’s hard to internalize these…
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Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
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Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future
The dawn of a new decade looms and there is a lot of excitement about the future of Godot! But it was not always like this, as the previous decade did not go as expected..
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How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive
Before, I was a train wreck that ate too many cinnamon rolls and watched Netflix while laying in sweats on the couch. Today, I ran 3 miles, did 40 minutes of yoga, meditated, ate steel cut oats with berries for breakfast, then turned on my favorite business podcast while I showered, all before work.
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SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights
Arlington, Va.—In a unanimous opinion issued today by the U.S. Supreme Court, and authored by Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, the Court ruled in Tanzin v. […]
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How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
Developer and writer.
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Openstreetmap is having a moment
The Billion Dollar Dataset Next Door
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Things Unexpectedly Named After People
Unfortunately, Rocket Lab does not seem to be named after seed investor/aerospace entrepreneur Mark Rocket .
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Never Hertz to Ask
Obviously we’re going to talk about this today: Ok, so. Up until this year, I would’ve told you that there are two general kinds of financial bubbles. The first kind of bubble is where everyo…
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Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
November marks one year since we launched Brave 1.0, the most private, safest, and fastest (3-6x) browser. Over the past year, we've seen amazing growth on multiple fronts and we're happy to celebrate Brave 1.0's first anniversary by announcing that we officially passed 20 million monthly active users (20.5), up from…
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Privacy is the most important concept of our time
Privacy is more than the right of an individual to be left alone. It concerns the very fabric of society.
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How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet
Ethernet is everywhere, tens of thousands of hardware vendors speak and implement it. However almost every ethernet link has one number in common, the MTU:
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Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
In 2020, with better alternatives available, using Google Analytics (GA) to track your web usage is n...
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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination
As work progresses on Godot 4.0 at a steady pace, a novel method of creating full-scene global illumination has been added in the master branch.
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Introducing Facebook Shops
We’re launching Facebook Shops and investing in features across our apps that inspire people to shop and make selling online easier.
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Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
I just came across another post on Hacker News talking about why you shouldn’t move your SSH port off of 22 because it’s Security by Obscurity. Ther
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Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
To help data teams stay on top of the changes happening in the industry, this article reviews an updated set of data infrastructure architectures.
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Image Scaling Attacks
This post is part of a series about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Click on the blog tag “huskyai” to see related posts. Overview: …
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A new form of brain stimulation relieved severe depression in a small study
Stanford Medicine researchers used high doses of magnetic stimulation, delivered on an accelerated timeline and targeted to individual neurocircuitry, to treat patients with severe depression.
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How We reduced our Google Maps API cost
Being a highly reliable commute partner to our customers, we at Cityflo take all kinds of measures to ensure high accuracy and predictability of our vehicle tracking system. Showing incorrect arrival time to our users will heavily hamper the experience that our users expect from us.
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL
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Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain
The news in brief: 1) Brain changes associated with aging become visible much earlier than would be expected, in the late 40's. 2) This is hypothesized to result from neurons’ loss of energy; if so, researchers may have found a way to prevent or reverse these effects. 3) This can be done with diet, by
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4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020
Excited to announce that my technical paper “ N-Dimensional Rigid Body Dynamics ” was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020 ! Very proud to present research developed for 4D Toys & Miegakure at such a prestigious conference.