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Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
10 years ago today, we published 'Why we Created Julia' ...
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My free-software photography workflow
In this article I present a step-by-step walkthrough of my photography workflow. I won't go through all the details of every piece of software I mention, they have their own manuals and documentation for that, I will highlight the operations I do. My main goals are: Full ownership of all …
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Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)
I got tired of attempting to get shell scripts to produce valid JSON. You’ve likely seen something like this before: echo '{
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You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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Don't ignore the janitor
The importance of seeing, smiling and talking to people
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Senior engineers are living in the future
I magine for a moment that, by some quirk of the universe, you are sharing your workspace with a time traveller. Specifically, yourself from 1 year in the future. How will you react to your new co-worker? 1 [ 1 If you find this exercise difficult, try instead imagining how your past self of a year ago would react to…
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Why do USB-C hubs still have USB 2.0 ports? (2021)
[If USB2.0 is too boring, learn about the details of 50 different Thunderbolt-4 docks – yep you read that right, there are 50 different models – find out which ones are identical inside…
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Why does gRPC insist on trailers?
gRPC comes up occasionally on the Orange Site , often with a redress of grievences in the comment section. One of the major complaints people have with gRPC is that it requires HTTP trailers. This one misstep has caused so much heartache and trouble, I think it probably is the reason gRPC failed to achieve its goal…
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820GB Database Dump of Roskomnadzor (Russian Government Censorship Organization)
In the Cyberwar category, we are listing 364,000 files from the Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal agency responsible for censorship of Russian media, specifically from the republic of Bashkortostan.
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Farewell, Building in Public
The end of an era of radical transparency.
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There's no way to report spam on Google Drive
Recently, I've been getting a lot of spam notifications from Google Drive. Here's a sample: The notifications come direct to my Android phone via the Drive app - they don't appear in my Gmail spam folder. There is no way to report the abuse. If I go to the list of notification in the Android apps, there's no option to…
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Architecture Notes: Datasette
Simon is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django web framework. Formerly he was a JSK journalism fellow at Stanford, and prior to that an Engineering Director at Eventbrite.
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I have complicated feelings about TDD
They're not all good and not all bad
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Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage
On January 13th 2022, Firefox became unusable for close to two hours for users worldwide. This post highlights the complex series of events and circumstances that, together, triggered a bug deep in the networking code of Firefox.
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What happens when a reservoir goes dry
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States formed by the Hoover Dam, reached yet another all-time low of 175 feet or 53 meters below full, a level that hasn’t been seen since the la
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The Modos Paper Laptop
At Modos, we want to give you the tools and space to focus on what truly matters in life. That’s why we created the Modos Paper Laptop: the world's first e-ink laptop designed for reading, writing, and thinking in a distraction and eyestrain-free environment.
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The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing.
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Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air
Oxygen candles are used as a backup source of breathable air inside refuge chambers, making them ideal for emergency situations underground.
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“News is what somebody does not want you to print – all the rest is advertising”
George Orwell? Alfred Harmsworth? William Randolph Hearst? L. E. Edwardson? Robert W. Sawyer? Mark Rhea Byers? Brian R. Roberts? Malcolm Muggeridge? Katharine Graham? Lord Rothermere? Lord Northcliffe? Anonymous?
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LogJ4 Security Inquiry – Response Required
On Friday January 21, 2022 I received this email. I tweeted about it and it took off like crazy. The email comes from a fortune-500 multi-billion dollar company that apparently might be using a product that contains my code, or maybe they have customers who do. Who knows? My guess is that they do this … Continue…
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Scaling our spreadsheet engine from thousands to billions of cells
Causal has joined Lucanet to deliver Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) as part of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform. Make smarter planning decisions with unified real-time insights across financial and operational planning.
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Tips for a Healthier Postgres Database
Craig's year end wrap-up of 5 things you can do for a healthier Postgres database next year.
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On the removal of Come Back Alive
The safety of our community is vital to us and we will continue to uphold our community guidelines to ensure a safe environment for our creators.
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What's New in Python 3.11?
Latest features the newest Python release has to offer, that you should know about - built-in TOML support, better exceptions, and typing improvements.
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Kagi/Orion status update: First three months
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago. We thought we'd give a full status update. If you are new to Kagi - Kagi search is an attempt to make the...
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The Intel Split
It appears that Intel’s partnership with TSMC is much larger than it first seemed; the implications for Intel as whole are massive.
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Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com
Discover the 9 best ecommerce UX practices from the world's top B2B ecommerce sites that made the top of HackerNews as the best ecommerce site.