Become a celebrity on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and answer 15 questions to cover the full spectrum of human experience.

The past few months have given us ample opportunity to stare at the creatures that reside outside. Rosie Hattersley looks at ways to track them.

It’s now nearly four decades since the iconic Commodore 64 8-bit computer saw the light of day, and the vintage format shows no sign of dying. Enthusiasts have produced all kinds of new takes…

What is the cloud? Here's everything you ever needed to understand what cloud computing is, and how it works with IoT and electronics projects

The Sidebar reminds the world that modern web is built on a foundation of dependencies: Small open source software packages we pull into our projects and literally depend on for functionality. This…

Buildings don't have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.

(Added a section on load/store pairs on June 14th) This question probably seems absurd. An unoptimized memcpy is a simple loop that copies...

Use distroless images to secure your containers on Kubernetes

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[A slightly shorter and edited version of this article appeared in the July 2013 issue of Linux Journal. Thanks to Linux Journal’s great copyright policy I’m still allowed to post this …

multi-platform screen and application forwarding system

Moore’s Law is not just a simple rule of thumb about transistor counts, it’s an economic, technical, and developmental force—and one strong enough to push

Google compared the problem of chip design to a board game.

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When projects plans go wrong, face the brutal truth and deal with reality.

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One reason I like teaching is it helps me understand things better. This came up in a couple different ways while working on the new book, and I’m too...

In a study conducted in May 2021 of 133 US companies, 29% of the respondents said that team spirit and working relationships have suffered from working remotely, with 11% leaving or planning to leave because the company culture has become toxic. Toxic cultures result in demotivated and disengaged employees and have a significant negative impact on organizational outcomes.

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Here is a somewhat fictionalized personal story. I’ve changed the names of the people and the technology used.Raising ObjectionsI was a new enginee...

Few companies understand their engineering strategy and vision. One consequence of this uncertainty is the industry belief that these documents are difficult to write. In some conversations it can feel like you’re talking about something mystical, but these are just mundane documents. The reality is that good engineering strategy is boring, and that it’s easier to write an effective strategy than a bad one.

The idea for a 5x5 method for coming up with an engineering strategy in Write five, then synthesize - which I recommend reading. The gist is to write down…

Complex systems are difficult to reason about at scale; we often can’t accurately extrapolate system behavior and performance, so we need to derive that data empirically. We use load testing to do just that: find the limits of our systems and weed out bugs at a large scale in a controlled environment. Slack is a […]

Every organization with a couple of microservices needs to control who can access those services, and under what conditions. An API gateway is an inevitable solution to this problem. But should you…

At TED2020, Ethan Hawke gave a remote talk about the benefits of being creative. As someone who often struggles to find meaning in whatever it is I do here, this bit was especially good to hear: Do you think human cre