The dark side of GraphQL: performance

My resolver took 19ms to fetch 20 recipes from postgres with ALL fields

then GraphQL took 426ms resolving/validating the recipe fields... 🙃

Starting today anyone can legally remix and republish classics that include Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Gift of Black Folk, and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr.

Bash-my-AWS is a simple but powerful set of CLI commands for managing resources on Amazon Web Services.

The single best term I’ve learned this year. I want to give you the non-technical definition, and as is my wont, broaden it a bit. Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occur…

Inject a shared library (i.e. arbitrary code) into a live linux process, without ptrace - DavidBuchanan314/dlinject

Theoretical models can be complex—but the most successful ones are usually not

Software abstraction ladder becomes too tall and starts to fall

In the last few years, it seems web performance has fallen by the wayside. Indeed, with many sites now using frameworks like React and Vue…

From Twitter’s spies to complete shutdowns, repressive regimes are using A.I. and VPN fingerprinting to silence their critics

Pseudo-random ramblings from Fogus.

The Number Resource Organization (NRO), acting as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), today announced it has submitted correspondence to ICANN regarding the Internet Society's proposed transfer of ownership of PIR, the .org registry, to Ethos Capital.

A method, computer-readable medium and system for implementing electronic flashcards are disclosed. Data operable to display a first set of information in a first region of a graphical user interface is generated, wherein the data is further operable to cause…

VPN services typically promote themselves for online security and anonymity, and access to geo-blocked content. And they typically brag about not keeping logs, high download speed, and diversity of server locations. Location diversity isn’t just a bragging…

The Frauchiger-Renner thought experiment has shaken up the world of quantum foundations.

What traits make a successful founder? Over the past year, Basis Set Ventures (BSV) has asked early stage investors representing north of $40 billion in AUM to rate 60+ founders on a number of dimensions, including demographical, behavioral and psychological…

An artificial intelligence (AI) system performs as well as or better than radiologists at detecting breast cancer from mammograms, and using a combination of AI and human inputs could help to improve screening efficiency.