I posted recently about the release of the desktop version of our Debug Trainer debugging practice app. Today I thought I’d talk a bit about a tool we used to write that desktop application using m...

NYC Mesh, a band of a few dozen tech volunteers, takes on Verizon and the big “incumbent providers,” with the promise of inexpensive community internet.

A look back at Google’s messaging mess.

CA to build middle-mile network open to all ISPs and give $2B in last-mile grants.

Progressing from a team leader to an organizational leader as an individual contributor

Linux supports extended attributes (xattr) on most file systems. Learn how they work and allow security features like access control lists and more.

It’s time for something better.

Today we will be learning about how to use Babel in your Node.js project step by step. Babel will transpile our ES2015+ code and module syntax to older-style code for compatibility purposes. During this post, I will use the basic Hello World Express ...

Sure, you know read/write/execute, but there is more… much more

This tutorial explains about file attributes in Linux and shows how to use lsattr command to list these attributes on command line.

Internet is full of resources on how to create an APT local repository and how to expose it via HTTP. Unfortunately, APT changed quite a…

Google software engineers reported something in a recent survey that surprised higher-ups: they felt as productive working from home as they did before the pandemic.

Posted on Friday 16 Jul 2021. 671 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. In part six, we'll explore the five levels of application maturity.

Many people have become slaves to porn addiction. Luckily, you can make use of these Android apps to help you beat porn addiction.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to recover lost or deleted files on a hard disk in Linux using PhotoRec, is a remarkable recovery tool for Linux systems.

You should create a positive incident culture with positive metrics meant to encourage and reward incident response and reporters.

Seattle is about 40% water, but not all of our bodies of water are created equal. Sixty years ago, Lake Washington was cleaned at the expense of the Duwamish River and the residents who rely on it. Decades of pollution have left a largely immigrant and Indigenous community to bear the environmental burden.

For the folks at LogDNA, DevOps is all about empathy, in getting beyond the “hot potato” mindset of not worrying about something because it is not your problem, and instead getting the whole crew working together on a shared challenge. LogDNA’s own roots are in solving a problem that traditional log management software couldn’t —…

Infallibility is a difficult model for forward motion. It’s likely that you’re going to make an error. That you will make choices based on things you don’t know, perhaps should ha…

Legislators are spending $400 million to expand broadband, while opening up public internet options. But access for everyone is still a long way off.

For decades, researchers have proposed that climate change and human-caused environmental destruction led to demographic collapse on Easter Island. That's probably false, according to new research.

Most everyone has a proper respect for the old ways. But at a certain point, the old ways get old. Tired, stale, and played out needs to give way to something newer and fresher with more life. It’s…

In his 1988 book, Object-Oriented Software Construction, professor Bertrand Meyer defined the Open-Closed Principle as:

Platform9, a SaaS provider of managed Kubernetes and OpenStack for private and edge clouds, has added KubeVirt, the open source project that brings virtual machines (VMs) into Kubernetes, to its list of managed services. Platform9 Managed KubeVirt, which was first introduced into beta earlier this year, is available to all Platform9 users, including those using…

PostgreSQL has built-in JSON generators that can be used to create structured JSON output right in the database, upping performance and radically simplifying web tiers.