For the record, at Uber, we're moving many of our microservices to what @copyconstruct calls macroservices (wells-sized services). Exactly b/c testing and maintaining thousands of microservices is not only hard - it can cause more trouble long-term than it…

Book review: A selection of books on the public and private lives of Albert Einstein, reviewed by P. D. Smith

Sensitive gravity test fails to find hidden dimension. Next: find old wardrobe.

I remember when mosh first came out and thinking "that sounds like a great idea, maybe I'll set it up sometime" and then never getting around to it. Several times over the years I've thought similarly, but it never seemed worth it. A week ago a coworker…

Simple Rust implementation of Conway's Game of Life - GitHub - brundonsmith/life: Simple Rust implementation of Conway's Game of Life

With the change in ownership of OpenVMS, the hobbyist program is ending at HPE. VSI is considering one option to continue hobbyist-class licenses.

A Flourish data visualisation by Andy Larsen

In this article, we are looking for the fine line between using smartphones, CCTV, and biometrics to fight with the coronavirus and using them to establish an Orwellian total control.

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For bureaucratic reasons, a colleague of mine had to print, sign, scan and send by email a high number of pages. To save trees, ink, time, and to...

Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more - jax-ml/jax

We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Since this change potentially impacts all Cloudflare customers, we wanted to walk through the rationale in more detail.

How Service workers fit in with the broader architecture of Servo, the parallel web engine written in Rust.

Mathematicians have figured out how to expand the reach of a mysterious bridge connecting two distant continents in the mathematical world.

(Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications Inc was slapped with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on Tuesday, accusing the video-conferencing app of overstating its privacy standards and failing to disclose that its service was not end-to-end encrypted.