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4 WAYS OOP INHERITANCE IS LIKE GOTO1. It's mostly "considered harmful". It should be your last resort.2. It does many different things. Goto was used to emulate control flow, loops, subroutines, exceptions, resource cleanup... we replaced it with *specific* constructs.— Hillel (@hillelogram) August 2, 2021

What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoin...

Using tech to do the important things, like avoid waiting around a subway station for 20 minutes

How I caused a stir on LinkedIn over the weekend.

A heads-up about things that need more work to get right in Postgres

Goals and Techniques for Software Design

This guide explains what is Podman, its features, difference between a Podman container and an image, and how to install Podman in Linux.

“The world is made of events, not things.” — Carlo Rovelli “Every company is becoming software.” — Jay Kreps In The Order of Time, the physicist Carlo Rovelli ar…

Ikea's previously announced Förnuftig air purifier was a standalone unit. Now they've announced they're releasing a new model, the Starkvind, that comes in side table form. It's such a smart idea. The Honeywell air purifier I've got has a considerable footprint and no other functionality; why not have

Do our thoughts have any meaning whatsoever?

Software – and the data it produces – is the engine that is driving IT these days. Hardware, either in traditional datacenters or in the cloud, no longer

The original version of the Adirondack chair looked pretty different from the one we know today. Originally it was called the Westport Chair after Westport, New York, the town where it was designed. A typical modern-day Adirondack chair. (Image: Greg Hume, CC BY-SA 3.0) A Westport chair, circa 1905.

Either you’re using time. Or it’s using you. You can watch the clock, but if you do, it’s watching you. Clocks have an agenda. They aren’t a part of the human condition&#821…

In a post-pandemic world, an options-based approach to observability gives you control over investments and avoids vendor lock-in.

Some concrete ideas for how to pin the tail of the limited liability donkey back on key insiders, and make regulators accountable.

It's a big day at Stack Overflow! Our Prosus deal has closed and our latest Dev Survey is live.

In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitchell Ashley talk observability and performance testing in DevOps.

This period hasn’t affected all people in the same way, but we are seeing some common trends.

The smart home was supposed to be the next big computing platform. Now it seems lost in a fog of frustration.

WebAssembly (also known as WASM) was launched in 2017 as a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine, developed to run in modern web browsers to provide "efficient execution and compact representation of code on modern processors including in a web browser." With WebAssembly you can develop high-performance web applications using open web platform…

Simple and quick to install flooring solution to create more storage in your attic.

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Labels like “data scientist” and “data journalist” connote an elite corps of professionals who can analyze data and use it to reason about the world. There are elite practit…

Containers are no security devices. That's why we've curated a set of easily actionable recommendations to improve your Docker containers security. Check out the one-page cheat sheet.