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Django 4.1
Posted by Carlton Gibson on Aug. 3, 2022
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The Curse of Systems Thinkers
Somewhere between 15 and 20 years ago, I worked for a company. It was a very prestigious company, and it was a glorious and frustrating time. The company did amazing things. Literally unbelievable achievements - from my point of view anyway. But this was coupled with levels of chaos that led
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All in with Nuitka
After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge. My projects “Nuitka” and “Nuitka commercial” are now my day job , and I quit my work in the Air Traffic Community, after working on ARTAS (a software to create an Air Situation Picture…
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I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
The true dystopia of AI is that it can make Ugly Sonic look cool.
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The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2
OAuth2 is one of the most popular specifications for API authentication today, though wrapping your head around it can be a challenge.
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Patching an embedded synthesiser OS from 1996 with Ghidra
For reasons I won't get into, I've been working on a tricky reverse engineering puzzle recently: how to patch the operating system of a 26-year-old synthesizer. To be specific, the Kurzweil K2500, a...
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Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms
Researchers from California Polytechnic State University and the University of New Mexico find that stock market investors predict cannabis legalization will reduce conventional pharmaceutical sales by billions of dollars. In their recent study, “U.S....
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Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns
Dutch Personal Data Authority raised concerns about Google's GDPR compliance.
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How to get the most out of your 1:1s
As a Director of Engineering, I have monthly 1:1s with all of my direct reports. A 1:1 (one-on-one) is a recurring meeting with no set agenda between a manager and one of their reports. The internet is full of valuable insight into how to run them from my perspective, (ex. The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster) but…
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S3 isn't getting cheaper
Clayton Christensen famously demonstrated the Innovator's Dilemma by using data from the hard drive industry in the 1980s. At every point, companies failed to make the switch from 8-inch drives, to 5-inch drives, to 3...
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
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Android Chrome 99 expands Certificate Transparency, breaking all MitM dev tools
Certificate transparency is superb improvement to HTTPS certificate security on the web that's great for users and businesses, but on Android it creates a huge...
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Go 1.19 Released
The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition
The winner of the 2022 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition was Nona Desalination, which is developing a low-cost, portable water desalination and purification device.
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WorldWideWeb.app
The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button: About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, […]
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We can do better than “same, but electric”
We've been making compromises to the limits of fossil fuels for so long that we've forgotten they're compromises.
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The new wave of React state management
Understand the core problems state management libraries need to solve. And how the proliferation of modern libraries address them in new ways.
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How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
“Kara sold her software company for $1.33 billion and paid ZERO capital gains taxes. I don’t mean the tax bill was deferred to a later year. I mean the tax
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Request for Startups: Climate Tech
At YC, we believe founders and startups can make a positive impact on climate change and support the transition to a sustainable future. Here are a few areas and ideas we find most interesting, and hope to see founders apply with.
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On leaving Mapbox after 12 years
It’s been about nine months since I left Mapbox and the circumstances of my exit didn’t offer much opportunity for closure. I feel a combination of gratitude and resentment that I’m still sorting out. Last week was the one year anniversary of the Mapbox Worker’s Union going public, the event that lead to my departure…
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You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now
...or at least, not without a lot of patience or a fat wallet. But why? And are there any signs Raspberry Pis will become available to the general public again soon? To be clear, I'm speaking of the mainstream SBC Raspberry Pis, like the Pi 4 model B, the Compute Module 4, the Pi Zero 2 W, and even in many cases the…
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Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science shows that a hands-free system could effectively automate the treatment and removal of tooth-decay-causing bacteria and dental plaque.
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I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it [video]
Historically, proprietary systems created the need for binary machine interfaces. This extended to the deepest layers of the system, where the PC BIOS was…
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Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM
Disclaimer: I have had access to some confidential information about some of the matter discussed in this page. However, everything written here is derived form publicly available sources, and references to these sources are also provided.
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Battleship
Let’s overengineer a childhood game.
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TikTok’s Poison Pill
Just a few months ago, it seemed that the biggest social media news of the year would be Elon Musk’s flirtations with buying Twitter (see, ... Read more
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Get in zoomer, we're saving React
Looking back, and forward
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Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell
Researchers from the University of Illinois developed GPU-accelerated software to simulate a cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell.
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Calling for Antitrust Reform
Mozilla supports the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). The time for change is now. It’s time for governments to address the reality
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Publicity Stunt Fallout
Update (Dec. 6): I’m having a blast at the Workshop on Spacetime and Quantum Information at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. I’m learning a huge amount from the talks and …