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Last month, in a much heralded international event, the agreement that ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) held with the United States Department of Commerce was permitted to lapse and so ICANN became an independent manager of the Internet’s addressing system.

The next time your right-wing family member or former high school classmate posts a status update or tweet about how taxing the rich or increasing worker...

📜 Brief Intro to LaTeX for beginners that helps you use LaTeX with ease. - GitHub - luong-komorebi/Begin-Latex-in-minutes: 📜 Brief Intro to LaTeX for beginners that helps you use LaTeX with ease.

On annotation as key tool to address President Obama's appeal for online fact-checking in the "wild west of information flow".

In Annotating the wild west of information flow I responded to President Obama’s appeal for “some sort of curating function that people agree to” with a Hypothes.is thought experi…

For some knowledge workers, the upsides to working in out-of-the-way places make the challenges worthwhile.

For some knowledge workers, the upsides to working in out-of-the-way places make the challenges worthwhile.

There are lots of ways to resolve an IP to a country/location. The fastest way is to have the database local and do quick checks against the file/database

We're the trusted source for IP address information, handling 40 billion IP geolocation API requests per month for over 1,000 businesses and 100,000+ developers

Documentation on the features and capabilities of Spongedown

If you've done digital artwork for any appreciable amount of time, then the importance of good file management should be apparent to you. Learn how Python can help automate the process.

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Interactive emails are the technical breakthrough you can’t afford not to know about.

Most office layouts are set up to favor men’s work styles.

An Observation In the past, it was difficult to gather reliable data about our software development process without interfering with the process itself. This created three types of problems: First, the process of actively gathering data adds an addition layer of friction to the software development process. This additional friction impedes team productivity and often […]

This white paper details reasons for encryption and protocol evolution driven by privacy, security and the increasing restrictions on network operator’s ability to efficiently manage their networks

The nation’s number two online retailer, Walmart, has a brand new product line: Electrode, an open source universal React/Node.js application platform. Developers are invited to use Walmart Labs' Electrode as a full platform, or take advantage of Electrode’s modular architecture to take only the pieces they need. Not every developer faces the scale challenge of…

Follow the endless iterations from Android 0.5 to Android 7 and beyond.

Like everybody else, I recently came across Jose Aguinaga’s post “How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016”.

Many of you will have seen news stories that explained what was going on: a huge DDoS attack on the infrastructure of Dyn had taken down access to many large websites like Twitter. A great deal of digital ink has since been spilled in the mainstream press on the insecurity of the Internet of Things, as a botnet of webcams was being used. Here are some additional issues that might get missed in the resulting discussion.

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, downloaded his competitor Wix's iOS app. It looked eerily familiar, and he confirmed it contains source code stolen from WordPress. He called them out on his blog, getting right to the point in addressing the problem:Your app’s editor is built with sto

The OpenTracing diagnostic tool grew out of a workshop on transactional tracing that ultimately became a support group for people, mostly from large internet companies, who had created in-house teams to solve these problems. “The story was just so painful across every one of these companies. We realized we were hearing the same story over and…

Well, here we go again with yet another new technology with a name that doesn’t tell us much about what it is: Hyperledger. Hyperledger is related to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and blockchains… but, what are these things? They sound like science fiction: I have plenty of Bitcoins, so let’s go splurge on a nice evening at the […]