Icon-accredited conservator-restorer Anthony Beech provides an introduction to shellac and shellac-based finishes for fine timber. His article explains the origin of 'sticklac', the raw form of resinous material secreted by the sap-eating lac beetle, the…

Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood…

One of the most important practices every engineering team should have

Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context. But now, argues Owen Hatherley, it is…

Nowadays especially it's nice to have things to read. New things, things from various sources and various voices, various minds talking about their t…

Inspired by John Hoare at the Dirty Feed blog – I’ve asked the British Library to assign my blog an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). An ISSN is an 8-digit code used to ident…

The Personal page of Da_Blitz

Test your site’s HTTP headers, including CSP and HSTS, to find security problems and get actionable recommendations to make your website more secure. Test other websites to see how you compare.

Over the last few months, I dove really deep into the topic of addiction and compulsive use of the Internet.

A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR

Everything you wanted to know about simulcast, but were afraid to ask

A remnant of an asteroid or comet just hit Jupiter, and it was seen by amateur and professional astronomers all around the world!

Disclosure comes two years after privacy-busting flaw was discovered

Rendezvous hashing is an algorithm to solve the distributed hash table problem - a common and general pattern in distributed systems. There are three parts o...

WATCH: an election being stolen in realtime. Join me on a THREAD of videos from Russia🇷🇺 this weekend. Exhibit A: can you spot the hand w/ballots sneaking from behind the flag? Location: Kemerovo, Siberia. Via: @novaya_gazeta

A detailed denoscription of how we made Google Docs run inside the new Flow Browser. The number of websites that work in Flow is increasing regularly.

If you are going to work remotely anywhere in Australia from a van, you need damn good internet. Here's how I put together a vehicle with the best internet connectivity in Australia.