The Git source-code management system has for years been moving toward abandoning the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) in favor of the more secure SHA-256 algorithm. Recently, the project moved a step closer to that goal with contributors implementing new…

Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at…

A Q&A style dialogue to separate fact from fiction.

My first full-time API testing experience was for SOAP services. There you learn what XSD is. You learn to love it.
Of course, you do! With server-side enabled validation based on a schema, you need not worry about stupid testing like checking what happens…

TiDB 4.0 has reached general availability. It's an elastic, real-time Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database, and, best of all, it's now ready for the cloud.

Android isn’t based on Linux. It’s based on DangerOS, which was a custom Java virtual machine living above a custom Danger written RTOS. When the Android founders left Danger to form Android they took the idea with them but they recognized that us...

An analysis on how Apple demands developers implement In-App Payment on their applications while taking a 30% cut, using as an example the recent situation with Basecamp's HEY.

Mindfulness for adolescents backfires when it imposes moral ideals, stirs up trauma, or fails to treat young people as agents

Today, we announce that civil rights activist and athlete Colin Kaepernick will be joining our Board of Directors. In addition to the…

A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals

Looking back at Apple’s transition from PowerPC to Intel CPUs, and considering why Intel now finds itself in the same position PowerPC did 15 years ago.

The redesigned site will remain unpaywalled — at least through 2020.

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