Explaining why the multi-layer Neapolitan ice cream exists, and why it’s never actually appeared on a space shuttle despite strong suggestions otherwise.
Today I'm going to share twenty years of context on the web. We'll talk about how the web evolved into what we have today, and why it makes building web applications so hard in 2021.
Almost every project comes in a little bit late and a little bit over budget. When things break, the breaks are rarely lucky ones. Part of the reason is that in proposing the project we made our be…
Simplifying the Workflow and Elements of Modern Web Development, design and deployment, core elements can be effectively described as every one of the things that are being done in web development in 2021.
ibraheemdev/modern-unix: A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives or complements to common unix commands.
A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands. - GitHub - ibraheemdev/modern-unix: A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.
Kernel development is not for people who lack persistence; changes can take a number of revisions and a lot of time to make it into a mainline release. Even so, the story of the Landlock security module, developed by Mickaël Salaün, seems like an extreme case; this code was merged for 5.13 after more than five years of development and 34 versions of the patch set. This sandboxing mechanism has evolved considerably since LWN covered version 3 of the patch set in 2016, so a look at what Landlock has become is warranted.
Service mesh and serverless deployment models represent the next phase in the evolution of microservice architectures. Service mesh enables developers to focus on business feature development rather than managing non-functional microservices capabilities such as monitoring, tracing, fault tolerance, and service discovery.
CUE is an exciting configuration language — Bitfield Consulting
CUE is a new data language, inspired by Go, that promises to make JSON, YAML, and other annoying formats much easier to work with. It features type checking, validation, and an excellent set of tooling.
Good Flag? Bad Flag? Orca Flag? - Slog - The Stranger
I'm sure you're aware that this past Monday was Flag Day. The City of Spokane made a special announcement to celebrate the holy day for vexillologists: Council passes resolution 6-0 adopting the new Spokane City Flag! Congratulations @spokaneflag pic.twitter.com/NjC5ZWltA3— Spokane City Council (@Spokane_Council) June 15, 2021 The Spokane Flag Commission was created in 2019. Commissioners received over 400 designs since then, and they landed on... this one. I think it's fine. It's certainly better than...
Greater than the sum of our parts: The evolution of collective intelligence
The period preceding the emergence of behaviourally modern humans was characterized by dramatic climatic and environmental variability—it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds of thousands of ...