On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody…

Don't let the cursor slow you down. Contribute to cursorless-dev/cursorless development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dave Farley and Allen Holub are two people that I respect hugely when it comes to Software Development. I’ve been following them on twitter for quite a while, and am always taken in about their takes on driving continuous delivery and “lowercase agile” forward.…

For the second time in 2022, Samsung's suffered a data breach. Though the company seems very relaxed about it, you need to know what was compromised.

Today the Australian Signals Directorate announced their 75th Anniversary Commemorative Coin, which is a standard Australian 50 cent coin with various cryptographic puzzles embedded in it. I’m not a cryptography expert, but I’ve always loved this stuff from…

Uses less memory, now can generate 576x1280 images with 6 gb vram

The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.

* not the first, but it was the first to have features that we now expect to see in what we now call a "tiling window manager".

the first, most likely was at Xerox PARC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#Xerox_PARC

A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote. - streetwriters/notesnook

One of the most interesting parts of my research was that I came to see the official indifference to the public's health as not a bug but a feature of this society. You see the elites routinely rejecting quarantine, and they spent very, very little money…

When it comes to serverless applications one principle rules them all: idempotency. This ability to rerun a function, make a REST API call, or process a message any number of times and ensure the same result is extremely hard to do reliably. In this talk…

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Movable type was not invented by Gutenberg but in China and later advanced in Korea, so why didn't Asia have a printing revolution?