Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
Explore Plan 9, Bell Labs' innovative operating system. Discover its impact on distributed computing, network-centric design, and modern OS development.
GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.
ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
Apple’s NeuralHash: real-world collisions, false positives, and implications for CSAM detection. See what this means for system reliability.
Homebrew 3.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.0.0. The most significant changes since 2.7.0 are official Apple Silicon support and a new bottle format in formulae.
Blender 3.0
21 years after Blender 2.0, version 3.0 brings unprecedented performance on a robust yet light package.
HTTPWTF
HTTP is fundamental to modern development, from frontend to backend to mobile. But like any widespread mature standard, it's got some funky skeletons in the...
Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL
It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.
Tailwind CSS v3.0
Tailwind CSS v3.0 is here — bringing incredible performance gains, huge workflow improvements, and a seriously ridiculous number of new features.
You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
Learn how to build an automated content moderation workflow with Mux Video and Hive.ai (including an open source example)
I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
Apple Joins Blender Development Fund
Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development for Blender.
Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
In a single update, a popular barcode scanner app that had been on Google Play for years turned into malware.
We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
Check the requirements, book the viewing, let yourself in, and submit your application, all without emails or phone tag.
Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll
Imagine this: a limited liability company (LLC) is formed, for the sole purpose of acquiring patents, including what are likely to be low-quality patents of suspect validity. Patents in hand, the LLC starts approaching high-tech companies and demanding licensing fees. If they don’t get paid, the...
Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
Physics is the most fundamental of sciences. It provides a foundation for ideas critical to other scientific fields and the underpinnings for modern technologies.
SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
Checkout the inner workings of ransoming and patent trolls.
How we got to LiveView
I'm Chris McCord. I work at Fly.io and created Phoenix, an Elixir web framework. Phoenix provides features out-of-the-box that are difficult in other languages and frameworks. This is a post about how we created LiveView, our flagship feature.
A patent troll backs off
We scared them off... this time.
Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
In this article, the author shares their experience as an engineering manager and the challenges they faced when trying to reach alignment and prev...
Fingerprints can be hacked
Fingerprint authentication is a convenient alternative to passwords and PIN codes. Who wants to spend time typing in a lengthy string of numbers, letters and characters when a simple tap will suffice? Unfortunately, that convenience comes at a cost. Because, unlike a regular password, you leave your fingerprint on…
Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind
Hi all. As some of you may know, I am a totally blind iOS game developer. Among other games I have made accessible Hangman, Choose your Face, etc. Well, about 3 days ago I found out a bug which prevented iOS 15 users from running my game accessible hangman. I submitted an update to the app store fixing this problem…
Flutter 2
Today, we’re announcing Flutter 2 : a major upgrade to Flutter that enables developers to create beautiful, fast, and portable apps for any platform. With Flutter 2, you can use the same codebase to ship native apps to five operating systems: iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux; as well as web experiences…
Tokio Console
Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.
Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
In our recent 2020 in numbers blog post we predicted that we would reach 500k sound uploads at some point in 2021 and… it has just happened! At some point during the past weekend, the number of sounds which are available for download in Freesound has surpassed half a million. Note that by sounds which are available…
Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
The Australian government has new laws on the books to hack your computer, your online accounts, and just about any piece of technology and networks you come into contact with. It can happen without a warrant and without you ever knowing. That’s just the start of it. Outraged? Good.
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
Update: The retired, out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 desktop application has bee
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AWS's Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.