Ruby for eBook Publishing
A lot of times, people ask what’s Ruby good for apart from Rails. Ruby is great for various tasks from several different domains, and today, I would like to share how anybody can use Ruby in publishing ebooks.
Digging for performance gold: finding hidden performance wins
We are fortunate that so many people choose Chrome as their browser to get things done, which is why we are continually investing in making ...
William Cook has died
Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57.
Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
This beginner guide will help you understand how convolution neural networks (CNNs) work and what they are useful for.
Mozilla announces Open Web Docs
We’re happy and proud to announce Open Web Docs, to support a community of technical writers that is open and inclusive for all.
“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions
And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.
Go’ing Insane: Endless Error Handling
I’ve been using Go for a few years now, mostly in my open source project Lazygit. In my day job I use Ruby and Typescript, and I’ve also spent some time with Rust. Each of those languages have design quirks that can grind a developer’s gears, and although my own precious gears have been ground by every language I’ve…
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) in 2021
Published: 28-01-2021 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
Arrests of Hong Kong democrats shows why EU must reject China investment
On 6 January 2021, 53 people were arrested in Hong Kong under the National Security Law, including the organisers and candidates in last July’s democratic primaries where over 600,000 Hong Kongers voted for pro-democracy candidates for the upcoming Legislative Council elections. On the morning of 6
Online ID / age verification: the death of online search
Neil note: I’ve published this with the hope that others familiar with what this could entail will give feedback. As such, what you read now might not be the final version. If I make material changes, I’ll indicate them.
Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing
Uku Täht is a co-founder of a simple web analytics tool Plausible. It’s bootstrapped, open-source, and currently making $360,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
Wayland on Wine: A First Update
Proposed on the upstream mailing list as a new RFC (Request for Comment), this update contains more details and instructions for building and running the Wayland driver.
Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)
RAJABANDOT hadir sebagai platform Toto Macau yang mengusung konsep internasional dengan tampilan modern, akses praktis, serta pengalaman pengguna yang dirancang agar mudah digunakan.
Hardening macOS (2018)
Quick and easy guide for securing macOS systems, for both laymen and security enthusiasts. Last updated for Golden Gate.
Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?
There are four types of mobile internet connection: 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. We compare the real-world impact in terms of speeds and download times.
Dog parasite is developing resistance to treatments
Hookworms have evolved to evade all FDA approved medications used to kill them.
DIY microscope lenses on BMD pocket 6K camera
I was having fun lately with some normal macro photography and was curious if I somehow can use my fathers microscope lenses on my photo and film cameras. The idea is not new, a quick google search showed that it was indeed possible but you need a special adapter for these microscope lenses. The adapter is called “RMS…
Can My Water Cooled Raspberry Pi Cluster Beat My MacBook?
It's time to put my water cooled Raspberry Pi Cluster to the test. I put it up against my MacBook and a Windows PC to see which performed best
The Railsification of SaaS
Every decade since the dawn of the World Wide Web in 1989 there have been about two major paradigm shifts in how web software is built and…
Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e
Texts on this and that.
Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks
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Finally, a Private Stock Exchange
Today was a big day. In 2013 we raised our seed round on the pitch of “building the Nasdaq for private markets.” Eight years later we call…
The Many Faces of Berlin U-Bahn Line U7
When the U7 was completed in 1984, it was West Berlin’s longest underground line and the one with the greatest number of stations. Many of those stations, constructed at a time when the western hal…