Being burnt out at work feels like this year’s life crisis. Almost every conversation I have with a friend in the industry lingers on the topic of struggling to focus at work. Last week, I was chatting with a friend and we diagnosed their core career ambition as the deep desire to spend several years sleeping. Reflecting on the chaos of the last year, that does, indeed, sound like a solid career plan.

Why is type getting so bad? Well, actually, the people who are noticing it, the ones who care about kerning or keming or serifs or the rest… we’re not the reason that it’s getting…

A survey of 600 IT professionals from mabl finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are organizational, not technological.

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…

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

The Gen X investors and CEOs who run the industry are stuck on the idea that private money will protect them from a promised hellscape.

In much of the Western world, mentioning Transylvania tends to evoke sinister imagery of dimly lit Gothic castles and notoriously blood-thirsty vampires. The region in central Romania has long been tied to the horrors of Bram Stoker's Dracula, an association that overshadows the area's rich history.

In 2021, we will largely complete the process of designing, building and shipping RenderingNG, a next-generation rendering architecture for Chromium.

WebAssembly is a new cross platform assembly like language for building secure, universal, and fast apps.

Signals generated by the use of an ad blocker can improve browser fingerprinting accuracy. This novel browser fingerprinting method, while oft-discussed as a theoretical source of entropy, has only just been added to FingerprintJS as of April 2021.

The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.

Read about rug pull index and the thoughts that go into building it.

OpenShift 4.8, the latest version of , launched this week, amalgamating a number of recent releases, such as OpenShift GitOps and Pipelines, and adding new features such as sandboxed containers, serverless functions, pipelines-as-code, and more. OpenShift 4.8 is based on both Kubernetes 1.21 and CRI-O (Container Runtime Interface) 1.21. The common theme to OpenShift 4.8…

Many engineering departments, libraries, and universities are launching new initiatives to create makerspaces, physical spaces where students, faculty, and the broader community can gather and share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build. In creating these innovative spaces we should apply principles of universal design to ensure the spaces, tools, and

NVMe is a set of protocols and technologies that dramatically accelerate the way data is transmitted, stored and retrieved. In this article, we discuss why NVMe is emerging now, summarize the architecture of NVMe and NVMe over Fabric, and outline common use cases and benefits. What Is Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)? NVMe is arguably the…

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Consumer onboarding is one of the, if not the most, important functions of a customer identity and access management (CIAM) solution. An overly complicated onboarding workflow significantly detracts from the consumer experience. Providing an effective, engaging and efficient onboarding workflow without compromising security has always been a challenge among security and risk professionals. The inspiration…

I've been covering this application development space for a long time and have seen a lot of breakthroughs. Some catch my eye more than others, and GitHub's Copilot is one of those eyecatchers. GitHub calls Copilot its AI pair programming companion for developers. The technology is truly promising. "GitHub Copilot draws context from the code…

The story about a cool project I’ve worked on recently — a full Python interpreter running inside the Linux kernel.

During August 2009, we went on a number of field trips to health centers in remote areas of Thailand and Cambodia. The idea was to conduct...

Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …

Throughout the history of Free and Open Source software (FOSS), copyright assignment has simultaneously been controversial and accepted as the norm in our FOSS communities. This paradox, I believe, stems entirely from some key misunderstandings that perpetuate. This issue requires urgent discussion, as two of the most important FOSS projects in history (GCC and glibc) are right now considering substantial and swift changes to long-standing copyright policies that date back to the 1980s. This event, and other recent events over the last few years in the area of GPL compliance and corporate FOSS adoption, point to long-term problems for projects. This essay works through these nuances, and will hopefully assist FOSS contributors as they make difficult decisions about copyright ownership for their projects. At the end, I provide a summary list of issues to consider when creating copyright ownership policies for FOSS.

Receiving feedback can be a stressful experience: will an open-ended question attract helpful guidance or harsh criticism? Erin “Folletto“ Casali has already taught us how to provide good feedback;…

There’s almost no sport or physical activity where that advice isn’t useful. Golf. Ping pong. Dancing. The more likely it is that people are tempted to focus on their hands or feet, the…

You don't have to look very far to be reminded that macro trends like cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning/AI are all driving the creation of applications and compute requirements that span from data centers to public clouds to connected devices.  We now see users discussing the ability to extend data sources…