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The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering
A brief history about server-side rendering and why it's the right approach for modern web development.
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The internet wants to be fragmented
Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work.
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Why is Debian the way it is?
Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It's thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of…
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Debian riscv64
After many years of effort, I am happy to announce that Debian riscv64 is now an official architecture! This milestone is not the end of the...
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From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)
How to find out someone's phone number if you just know their email address and how it can be automated using a new OSINT tool: email2phonenumber
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Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses
In the past few years, I've heard a lot about Avro, Parquet, ORC, Arrow and Feather, but I also keep hearing about Iceberg and Delta Lake. As a "database person", I’ve been struggling to understand all of these different things, and how they relate to Data Lakes and
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Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
I bought the iPad Pro M1 chip in hopes of a lightweight, fast, multi-purpose device that I could also code on.
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Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood
By Tory Bruno
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Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
Alongside lower costs, Cloud Spanner provides single-digit ms latencies and strong consistency across multiple availability zones in the same region.
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Natural language is the lazy user interface
A chatbot is the lazy user interface. It puts all the burden on the user to articulate good questions.
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Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
Anyone who posts silly lists like "15 AI tools you can't miss" is truly the one who is lost
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Surviving Burnout (2015)
the curious life of Ms. Audrey M. Eschright2023311 points162 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
The first thing I know about burnout is this: burnout happens when we become locked in a cycle of caring about the results of our actions but having no meaningful control over those outcomes. I first learned this while reading about social workers, but the problem is abdundant in tech. I’ve seen it play out in every…
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Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
ESET researchers uncover a Lazarus attack against an aerospace company in Spain, where the group deployed several tools, including a publicly undocumented backdoor we named LightlessCan.
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Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive
It's time to add another family of emulated older technology to the Internet Archive.The vast majority of platforms within what we call The Emularity happens because of the work of MAME Team, which has spent over 25 years adding support for tens of thousands of machines, platforms, and tools to their breathtaking…
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Butler Virtual Operating System
This post introduces [[butler]], a virtual operating system that runs multi-players applications on the web. In two parts, I present:
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Web components will outlive JavaScript frameworks
If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.
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Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)
Over the past few weeks you, the community, have made your voices heard. And we’ve listened. OGL 1.0a will remain untouched AND the entire SRD 5.1...
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Making Games
In March 2018, I had been a full-time indie game developer for four years. My heroes were Jonathan Blow, Lucas Pope, and Robyn and Rand Miller. I had 2,500 Twitter followers, an ambitious title under my belt with thousands of sales, and a free office in a hip coworking space near downtown Columbus, generously provided…
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Blocking Visual Studio Code embedded reverse shell before it's too late
Visual studio code tunnel Introduction Since July 2023, Microsoft is offering the perfect reverse shell, embedded inside Visual Studio Code, a widely used …
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Quad9 wins appeal against Sony
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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The EU's war on behavioral advertising
Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.
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Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)
Try to spot who liked hacking away at corpses rather than computers
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ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants
In collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), new research from Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard chair and co-founder Karim Lakhani and In collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), new research from Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard chair and co-founder Karim Lakhani and others involved…
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Job Hunting in 2022
My experience hunting for a job in late 2022, and advice for other job seekers