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Rise of generative AI will be comparable to the rise of CGI in the early 90s
My chat with Cristóbal Valenzuela, Cofounder & CEO of Runway .
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Job hunting while day-jobbing (2021)
Interviewing is stressful enough, but interviewing while doing your day job?1 Yikes! Well, I just did it,2 and I’m here to tell you that it’s totally …
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From Prison to Programming
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today's guest is Rick Wolter. He's an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed somebody and for some that's all…
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Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 detected in London, UK
News originally published on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative website. The Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) has confirmed the isolation of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) from environmental samples in London, United Kingdom (UK), which were detected as part of ongoing disease surveillance.
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Sorbet and 100% cov makes Ruby refactoring possible
Safely refactoring Ruby traditionally involves many incremental steps and feature flags. Sorbet and 100% branch coverage make it possible to refactor a lot of code safely.
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State of the Web: Deno
What is Deno, why does it matter, and how is it currently used for server-side JavaScript?
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Pre-Modern Battlefields (2015)
Image Source.”Man does not enter battle to fight, but for victory. He does everything that he can to avoid the first and obtain the second” –Ardant du Picq, Battle Studies: Ancien…
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Golang Diaries: Generics
My coding time this year has been invested in Quamina , an event-filtering library implemented in Go. Just in the last couple of weeks I spotted an opportunity to bring Go’s shiny new generics to bear, and not just anywhere, but for a central data structure. I got good results, but the process was sort of painful; I…
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Linux Kernel Ksmbd Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Linux Kernel. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability, but only systems with ksmbd enabled are vulnerable.
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Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode
The IBM System/360 was a groundbreaking family of mainframe computers announced on April 7, 1964. System/360 was an extremely risky "bet-t...
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Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) – a leap forward in technology (2020)
The SPE Industrial Partner Network has come together to create a new universal standard in communication via Ethernet, IEC 63171-6.
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When Double Precision Is Not Enough
Using greater than double precision to calculate the eigenvalues of the lesp matrix.
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On Tolkien and Orwell
On first looking at J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) and George Orwell (1903-1950) they appear to have little in common, as men or writers, other than being peculiarly English authors with evergreen book sales. The year 1937 was a seminal one for both men and useful for highlighting their different lifestyles, politics and…
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TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps
This is a reverse chronological list of the major TinyBase releases, with highlighted features.
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Olaf's New Menu Item
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Tailscale Authentication for Nginx
Use Tailscale's nginx-auth for secure Single Sign-On (SSO) to internal services, reducing the need for internal account systems.
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When volcanoes go bang, submarine cables do what?
Guest Post: Insights and lessons from Tonga in the last five weeks.
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What is the small web? (2020)
Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce…
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The End of CI
Today, Continuous Integration (CI) is something that nearly every engineering organization does. However, I predict that in the future, nobody will do it.
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The baseline for web development in 2022
TL;DR:The baseline for web development in 2022 is: low-spec Android devices in terms of performance, Safari from two years before in terms of W...
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New C++ features in GCC 12
Version 12 of GCC implements much of the recent C++ standard, allows a number of previously prohibited constructs, and fixes some problematic behaviors.
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Where did software go wrong? (2020)
Software is broken, but it's not because of NPM, startups, AI, or venture capitalists. A deep dive into how we think about and produce code, and how our software systems reflect the manic state of the modern world.
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Scarcity Truthers
Artificial Scarcity and the Semmelweis Reflex
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Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Moderna's 2015/2016 patents
Using BLAST is easy. I'm going to show you how easy and how to prove that SARS-Cov-2 is man-made
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Starting with microservices
Starting a greenfield project with microservices is easy. The promises are wonderful but often they are far from reality. This time I’ll share my experience on the truth about microservices when starting a project from scratch.