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Software estimation is hard – do it anyway
It’s well established that estimating software projects is hard. This is true, but you should learn how anyway.
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How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.
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New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match color perception
Okhsv and Okhsl Two new color spaces for color picking This post has an accompanying interactive comparison of color pickers. I would...
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How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend
A couple years ago, a good friend of mine, who was in charge of operations at a food delivery company, got laid off after a merger - they kept the guy from the other side.
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
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There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives
If you are going to work remotely anywhere in Australia from a van, you need damn good internet. Here's how I put together a vehicle with the best internet connectivity in Australia.
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FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust
Our Kickstarter campaign for our next generation of Solo products launches on January 26th. To get alerted when the campaign is live, you can sign up here. Update: The campaign is now live! Check it out to see all the details. Humble beginnings I've been working on Solo for almost 3 years now. It started back when I…
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Batteries included with Emacs (2020)
Emacs has a reputation for being borderline unusable out of the box, of being bloated but somehow surprisingly bare. This is largely a discoverability problem1. The solution the Internet has settled on seems to be “Emacs distributions” like Doom, Spacemacs or Prelude that glue together dozens (sometimes hundreds) of…
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Little League wants all your information
To sign kids up for our city’s Little League baseball …
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In praise of --dry-run
See how we improve software reliability with --dry-run modes. Learn best practices for tool development with insights from our expert, Patrick Stevens.
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The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux
Learn how to protect your SaaS applications with the SaaS CTO security checklist. Doing the basics goes a long way in keeping your company and product secure.
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On Repl-Driven Programming
Once upon a time, someone with the handle “entha_saava” posted this question on Hacker News :
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Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
Cloudflare announced their exciting new object storage product, Cloudflare R2. Will they take market share?
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Django 3.2
Posted by Carlton Gibson on April 6, 2021
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DIY Acoustic Camera
Make your own acoustic camera with miniDSP UMA-16 and Acoular
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After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off
The purpose of this article is to share my story in hopes of connecting to the right people at Facebook who can help me save my businesses…
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Kafka without ZooKeeper
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
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GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”
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HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
In this research paper James Kettle introduces multiple new classes of HTTP/2-exclusive attacks, demonstrated on popular websites and servers.
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1Password for Linux
The wait is over. [1Password for Linux is officially here](https://support.1password.com/getting-started-linux/).
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
Learn web scraping using Python in this step-by-step tutorial. Use Requests, Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, and scraping APIs with practical 2026 examples.
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Postgres scaling advice
Planning to scale PostgreSQL? Learn when a single node is enough, how to prepare for sharding, and which scaling steps to consider first.
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How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
How to use SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to improve your domain's email security and limit spoofing - but written for humans.
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WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95
In Firefox 95, we're shipping a sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed with researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Texas