Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup - Vadim Kravcenko
How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product
How to add eBPF Observability to your product
The Future Is in Symmetrical, High-Speed Internet Speeds | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress is about to make critical decisions about the future of internet access and speed in the United States. It has a potentially once-in-a-lifetime amount of funding to spend on broadband
This Week in Programming: GitHub Copilot, Copyright Infringement and Open Source Licensing – The New Stack
Earlier this week, GitHub introduced GitHub Copilot, a new feature that it is referring to as "your AI pair programmer" but might also be appropriately called "IntelliSense on steroids." Built using OpenAI Codex, a new system that the company says is "significantly more capable than GPT-3 in code generation," the tool not only autocompletes lines…
Pluralistic: 03 Jul 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
14 Great AutoHotKey Scripts You Have to Try - Make Tech Easier
AutoHotkey is one of the best Windows automation programs. Here are the best AutoHotkey scripts that you should try to improve your workflow.
7 guides about open source to keep your brain busy this summer | Opensource.com
Start a new Raspberry Pi project
What Should Be a Student’s First Programming Language? – The New Stack
It's a question that's fascinated educators for decades. When students first begin to learn computer science — which programming language should they start with? One person who's given it a lot of thought is Mark Guzdial, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan who has also conducted his own research in the fields…
Town's desperate search for water to fuel their real estate boom | Boing Boing
From Vice, I found this report on the town of St. George, Utah’s quest for water a bit odd. It seems to me as if a few of the folks in this video are completely passing on an opportunity to d…
From/to | Seth's Blog
Freedom has a partner, and its name is responsibility. It’s easy to insist on all the things we should be free from. But then we realize that we also have the freedom to act, to lead and to c…
Lines and curves | Seth's Blog
Working with a ruler is pretty straightforward. Just about anyone can extend a line, or fix something straight if it breaks. It’s on the line or it’s not. But curves? Curves are complex…
American Manufacturing: A History #4thOfJuly « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Today we celebrate the long history of manufacturing in the United States of America. Here’s a long read from Stacker: Between the mid-to-late 18th century and early-to-mid 19th century, econ…
Why Your Workplace Software Stinks - The New York Times
The person writing the check is still the most important customer.
Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen? - The New York Times
Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been. Now it’s a contender for the title of the world’s most valuable company.
Why Microsoft Is Still a Big Tech Superstar - The New York Times
Microsoft made epic mistakes for years, but it’s again one of the tech world’s superstars.
Auntie Unfiltered and Uncle Michael Discuss White Fragility
At the root of the whole Critical Race Theory fake debate is a whole lot of hurt white feelings.
We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We're Going to Say So - Scientific American
It’s time to use a term that more than 13,000 scientists agree is needed
Importing array values into Postgres from CSV – brian d foy – Random Adventures
I want to import from a CSV file some array values into a Postgres table, but I didn’t find examples. There are many examples with INSERT statements, but I already know how to do that (because there are examples).
Ruby On Rails Database Naming Convention - Stack Overflow
At my company, we're about to start out first Ruby On Rails application and it will have a new database. All of our current databases conform strictly to the Upper Camel Case naming convention for
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Build your own adorable, talking WALL-E robot | Arduino Blog
Instructables user Kevr102 shows how to bring a toy WALL-E to life with the help of an Arduino.
Blog — Measuring Traffic Rate by Means of U-models
First, let us look at and analyze a few examples of how events are counted and the rate of the stream is estimated in general. The next step is to see a generalization, namely some class of counters, which we call the u-model. Next, we explore what useful properties u-models have and propose a technique for constructing an adequate rate estimate.
The Untold Story of SQLite With Richard Hipp - CoRecursive Podcast
On today's show, I'm talking to Richard Hipp about surviving becoming core infrastructure for the world. SQLite is everywhere. It's in your web browser, it's in your phone, it's probably in your car, and it's definitely in commercial planes. It's where your iMessages and WhatsApp messages are stored, and if you do a find on your computer for *.db, you'll... […]
#InfoSecBikinis and #DevsPelades: A Movement to Bring Your Whole Self to Tech – The New Stack
Last week, Pittsburgh-based Brazilian database administrator Vanny received a DM from a stranger on Instagram that, translated from Portuguese, read: Lady, you had everything to be a reference in the tech community, but you lower yourself and expose yourself too much. I started following you awhile ago and I could swear you were going to…
Tutorial: Build Custom Container Images for a Kubeflow Notebook Server – The New Stack
In this installment, we will start exploring building an end-to-end machine learning pipeline for data preparation, training, and inference. We will delve deeper into these tasks over the next few installments. To follow this guide, you need to have Kubeflow installed in your environment with a storage engine like supporting shared volumes for creating PVCs…
Hacking around the world — HackSpace magazine
A brief history of hackerspaces
Pluralistic: 02 Jul 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The State of Continuous Delivery in 2021 - DevOps.com
The Continuous Delivery Foundation recently released its 2021 State of Continuous Delivery Report to establish baseline metrics.
Charcoal Briquettes History: Forged by Henry Ford’s Love of Byproducts
The modern day evolution of charcoal actually has a lot in common with early automobiles. (At one point, some argued charcoal should replace gasoline!)
The Last Word On Nothing | See that bird?