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Man vs. snow vs. time Yesterday I published an article called “The Outwork Myth” where I push back against the popular notion that “working harder and longer than other people is the way to get ahe…

Typically, if you wanted to control your Raspberry Pi from outside your network, you’d need to go through and set up your router to allow access from the internet, install some software on your Pi, set up an IP address, and cross your fingers you’re doing that all securely. Dataplicity makes this a heck of a lot…

Psychologist Dr. Patrick Keelan has a series of questions to ask yourself when you feel stuck with your work. These four questions can act as a flowchart to help you beat procrastination and be productive again.

The O’Reilly Podcast: Bob Montemurro on planning data systems to match needs.

Here’s a secret from the support team at Highrise. Customer support metrics make us feel icky. Our team doesn’t know our satisfaction score. We’ve never asked any of the people that use Highrise to…

A whirlwind tour of boybands, conspiracy theories, fake identities, appalling statistical method, and what it might teach us about the future of our industry.

We need AI researchers who are actively trying to defeat AI systems and exposing their inadequacies.

When I talk to various people about PostgreSQL, based on where they are in the process of analyzing it, I get asked many similar questions. One of the most frequently asked questions is: What is the PostgreSQL licensing model? Here is my attempt to address this question from the perspective of what the PostgreSQL license […]

Once a distributed application is built and deployed, it is crucial to monitor and visualize it to make sure the software is reliable, available, and performs as expected. This article looks at several new API solutions that help providers address these issues for microservice architectures.

Docker announced today that it was open sourcing containerd (pronounced Container D), making a key infrastructure piece of its container platform available for anyone to work on. Containerd, which acts as the core container runtime engine, is a component within Docker that provides “users with an open, stable and extensible base for building non-Docker products […]

Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 7:00 PM: Presentation:OpenStack has emerged as the de facto standard for IaaS in the private cloud. This talk will provide an example of OpenStack integration using Nutanix HCI as t

A Northwest Coast Native mask is identified as the inspiration for the Seattle Seahawks original logo after years of speculation.

Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” ― Archilochus Mental toughness can take many forms: resilience against attack, calmness in …

The intelligent writer who dumbs down her work in order to make it more popular. The successful small businessperson who gives up the edge that made the business work in order to make it bigger. Th…

A Times investigation reveals missed signals, slow responses and a continuing underestimation of the seriousness of a campaign to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.

Malicious ads are serving exploit code to infect routers, instead of browsers, in order to insert ads in every site users are visiting. Discovered by security researchers from US security firm Proofpoint, this malvertising campaign is powered by a new exploit kit called DNSChanger EK.

An interview with Dianne Marsh, Director of Engineering, Cloud Tools, at Netflix.

Understand the latest ransomware delivery methods, use the latest network indicators, and detect the latest behavioral indicators.

The annual Stratechery review of the state of technology, and call to build products that unlock human potential

The O’Reilly Podcast: John Thuma on how businesses can get more than “what happened” from their data.

An inside look at how we handle bug tracking with Basecamp 3. Ksenija had a great question from my last “How We Work” post. One thing that interests me the most is do you have some kind of automati…

Get stuck into a containerization runtime this Xmas. Go on

It'll be virtual, natch, but so is the rest of your bit barn – in a bad way

Number one: Make designing special-purpose hardware as easy as writing software

To see the future of networking, we need only look at one of the dominant trends in IT: the shift in power towards lines of business and developers.

Run Bash on Windows and perform other feats of command line magic