And it was all thanks to peer pressure

Microsoft appears to be blocking even more apps for customizing the user interface in Windows 11 24H2. Users noticed that ExplorerPatcher joined the recently blocked StartAllBack app.

The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for'

I’m often asked to edit friends’ or coworkers’ writing, anything from emails to short stories to documentation. Recently, someone asked me how I edit. What am I looking for? How do I know what changes to make? That made me stop and think about what I’ve…

"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."

The Eisenhower matrix can help you prioritize your core responsibilities, save you time, and reclaim your work-life sanity.

This is my contribution to bring the "you" back into YouTube #uinutube

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AWS is committed to supporting open source Valkey for the long term. We are adding Valkey support to our ElastiCache and MemoryDB managed database services and contributing to the open source Valkey project.

The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in…

For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this…

The latest version of the whistleblowing platform SecureDrop runs on the Qubes operating system. At the Guardian we used the Salt management engine to set up a Qubes environment where journalists could safely interrogate sensitive documents.

Updates April 7th, 2024 I received an email from Marc Rochkind. He recounts some details of the creation of SCCS. I attached the email at the end of the article and made corrections inside the article. Most importantly, check out Marc’s original paper.
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If you bought a Zenfone and expected to be able to unlock the bootloader, a precedent has now been set that you can get a refund.

This article shares some of the lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days.

Unprecedented footage.

I posted the bulk of my reflections on the WiX Toolset's 20th Anniversary on the FireGiant blog. I just have a couple tidbits to include here.