System Architecture

I interviewed dozens of developers over 20 years as a CTO. Here’s everything developers need to know about Browsers & the Internet.

Generate datasets and train instruction-following models

A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the Strategy Design Pattern in Object-Oriented Programming for Flexible and Reusable Code

Dangers of inconsistent parsing of URLs

I have built quite the reputation as an IPv6 contrarian over the years, particularly as I yearly criticize FOSDEM for describing their dual-stack network as a “legacy” network. As I kee…

A peak into the magic behind image optimization on the web

ECS and GUIs are not trivial to mix, in this article I’ll take inspiration from React to make it nicer.

CRDT-based distributed counter that is eventually consistent

I’ve tried to write a blog post on tag systems for years now. Literally years, I think I first started drafting it out in 2018 or so? The problem is that...

Many modern programming languages like Java produce useful error messages when they fail. Some indicate where in the program (e.g., down to the line of source code) the failure occurred. Slowly, the C++ language is moving in this direction. A particularly nasty problem in C and C++ are segmentation faults: they occur when you are … Continue reading Under Linux, libSegFault and addr2line are underrated

Ultralearning project to learn the equivalent of an undergraduate maths of computer science student understanding of graph theory.

The time is coming, and maybe sooner than we think, when regulators will require a standardized approach to resilience in the name of public good.

Bobsled offers a cross-cloud data sharing service and announces a $25M Series A funding round, led by Greycroft and Madrona, to build it out.

Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times

Mitigating security issues in microservices and APIs requires putting strong authentication mechanisms in place.

Layer 2 Data Link connectivity provides low latency while Layer 3 Network Link offers greater scalability. Which is the right one for your workloads? Nokia has some answers.

A look at what decentralized identity is and how companies should prepare for the change it will usher in.

Why use it? How does it work?

Google Authenticator now syncs one-time codes with your account, so you're not stuck if you lose your device..

Programming isn't about mindlessly typing away on a keyboard. There is an aesthetic quality that comes with approaching a problem.

This paper by Henrik Thovtrup and Jakob Nielsen illustrates how user interface standards can be hard to use for developers. Two experiments demonstrate that compliance with standards is limited in both laboratory and corporate settings.

IBM Documentation.

IBM Documentation.

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The Washington Monthly, October 1983 SEVEN YEARS AGO, at the age of 34, I decided to become a socialist entrepreneur. It seemed like a logical calling to pursue.  As a muckraking jour­nalist, I’d flung my share of arrows at the big corporations, although I inwardly feared they were invincible be­cause no one else could deliver... Read more...

Who are you, or rather, who does the algorithm think you are? If we form our identities by the information we receive, it is uncertain how much of who we are is constituted by an algorithm. Do algorithms determine what we find meaningful?

API calls require authorization. How do you select the best authorization mechanism? This post lists the different authorization options and answers which mechanism is the best!