Take a practical approach to containerization as we guide you through the step-by-step process of building your own Docker-like environment using Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot. Dive into the code and command examples to gain a deeper understanding of how these technologies work together to create isolated and…
Discover all the options for change data capture (CDC) in Postgres––and which is best for your use case.
David Zipper, who researches and writes about mobility and transportation, recently did a big thread on Mastodon (and Bluesky) about car bloat: the way in which
As the cost of living continues to spiral, a new report shows more than half of gig economy workers in the UK are paid below the minimum wage.
Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed "deep and intimate" knowledge of these particles' cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately kept their findings from the public, according to a new study by UCLA researchers.
I’ve just finished setting up a new Mac (14" MBP, M2 Pro, 32G, 4T). It dawned on me that most of my really intense interactions with this thing involve looking at “monospace” (i.e. fixed-width) text; in Emacs where I write this blog, in my IDE, and in my terminal. The ones that came with the machine by default are…
Why I am not enjoying programming in Rust.
Wiggling apps in Launchpad There's this thing called **Launchpad** on macOS which shows you all the apps on your Mac in an iOS like manner. You may already have it in the Dock, but you can also launch it as any other app. There's even a nifty trackpad gesture for it where you *pinch with thumb and three fingers*. ...
Make your Elixir projects even faster using Rust!
The new library of functions will answer questions and enhance knowledge. Everyone, everywhere can access and contribute to it now.
The Microsoft Excel add-in is here!
Unison is a pure functional programming language that comes with a few revolutionary ideas. Seriously, it makes everything we’re used to, like long builds, dependency version conflicts, tests that run every single build even when nothing checked by them has changed, manual encoding and serialization of data, and lots…
Coinbase is trotting out its usual flawed arguments now that it's facing a lawsuit from the SEC, and more pushback is needed.
Statistics and anecdotes about PHP at scale.
This morning, two emails came in from Apple. The first was about the upcoming renewal of my yearly subscription to Disney+ and the second email was about the price increase of my Disney+ subscription from $79.99 to $109.99. It took me all of 10 seconds to think about it, but I canceled my subscription. It’s not really…
Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.
The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn’t believe it wasn’t already established in the lexicon, but at least preliminary searches suggest it is not…
Canoeboot – Free, Libre BIOS/UEFI boot firmware
Edit – this post generated a few insightful comments on Hacker News. I’ve also put the code in a notebook for ease of use. Introduction Modern MLOps is complex because it involves too many components. …
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
When you think of animating CSS properties, which ones come to mind? I recently started wondering about the ones that don’t come to mind — properties that aren’...
Cosine trains AI models and specialised coding agents for organisations that need frontier capability within secure environments.
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 8.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 238 authors.
Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team, As we say in our Band Manifesto, change is the only constant. For this reason, I continue to reiterate that speed is the most defensible strategy a business can have. But speed alone is…
Today’s post is a little more personal than professional (in fact, this started off as a post for my personal blog), but there’s still plenty of overlap into entrepreneurship and crowdf…
Personhood appears to be simpler than we thought
try to trade and you're marked
A step-by-step tutorial you can follow along, featuring ffmpeg, xrandr, tcpdump and a dhcp server running on a Raspberry Pi
