System Architecture

A simple HTML attribute that tells the browser which assets to load first, called called Priority Hints, has improved the load time of the largest images on Etsy’s product listing pages by 4%.

Though it is not a mainstream language, Clojure was the right language for Penpot to choose because of its key features: stability, backwards compatibility, and syntactic abstraction.

GitHub isn't just for the pure software nerds. We hybrid software/hardware physical computing geeks, gadgeteers, engineers and inventors have a place there too

Many Linux distributions have really minimal differences between and trying to reach a customer with nice wallpapers, themes and UI decorations in general. Clear Linux is the unique software product backed by Intel, not based on any distribution and provides a lot of interested solutions under and above the hood:

What should our microservice application architectures be like?

If you search for examples of creating a seeded (pseudo)Random number generator, you will run into stuff like this (specific example http://indiegamr.com/generate-repeatable-random-numbers-in-js/):...

The first terminal I ever used was a teletype. Somehow my buddy when we were in high school got a hold of this weird "printer typewriter" ...

Distributed systems are not strictly an engineering problem. It’s far too easy to assume a “backend” development concern, but the reality is there are implications at every point …

Posted on 2022-08-06

Beware of over simplification and mallards

A way to understand software architecture and its failures

This means that if you were always poor — you function differently than those with abundant resources. But if you were rich before and then suddenly plummeted to poverty — your brain goes into a full-on scarcity mindset.

Sometimes solving a simple problem can lead to interesting places…

Original Source for Self-Sovereign ID + Sovereign Source Authority + Human Rights in Sovereign context defined by "Owning Root" authority structurally

Original Source for Self-Sovereign ID + Sovereign Source Authority + Human Rights in Sovereign context defined by "Owning Root" authority structurally

One of the first uses of the BPF virtual machine outside of networking was to implement access-control policies for the seccomp() system call. Since then, though, the role of BPF in the security area has not changed much in the mainline kernel, even though BPF has evolved considerably from the "classic" variant still used with seccomp() to the "extended" BPF now supported by the kernel. That has not been for a lack of trying, though. The out-of-tree Landlock security module was covered here over three years ago. We also looked at the kernel runtime security instrumentation (KRSI) patch set in September. KP Singh has posted a new KRSI series, so the time seems right for a closer look.

and making my website faster in the process

Posted on Thursday 4 Aug 2022. 3,669 words, no links. By Matt Webb.