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20 minutes.  That’s the amount of time most developers are willing to spend installing a tool or platform that could become the foundation for their software.  I’ve watched our industry…

Today I would like to show you how I dealt with one annoying feature of Erlang’s console while using one really nice feature that Erlang…

Facebook has released as open source a new JavaScript package manager the company developed in conjunction with Google, Exponent and Tilde, called Yarn. Yarn is designed to be a faster, more reliable and more secure npm client that retains access to the vast npm (Node Package Manager) registry while solving issues that arose when Facebook, among other…

Will our reliance on AI and Machine Learning create a world of digital monocultures isolated from one another by feedback loops?

I had a meeting with a customer (let's call her Kate) last week, and she wanted some changes to a web-based messaging application that my group owns and manages. That meeting didn't exactly go as planned. Blame Tennis Here's how the conversation between myself and Kate went: Matthew: OK, so

In a recent study in Nature, we introduce a form of memory-augmented neural network called a differentiable neural computer, and show that it can learn to use its memory to answer questions about complex, structured data, including artificially generated stories, family trees, and even a map of the London Underground. We also show that it can solve a block puzzle game using reinforcement learning.

(This question is very similar to 10458. It was suggested that Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian are different enough to warrant different answers.) As I use any Ubuntu setup I gradually install a number of

I try to keep a log of the programs I installed via apt-get in the command line to carry them to my next Ubuntu installation. The thing is sometimes I install something to see if it suits me. After

Every now and then I'm in need of updating a software running on one of our testservers at work (mostly Debian). What really confuses me almost every time is the fact that there is not just one way...

Hey there, you slithery Rustilian. Have you heard the good word? Rust can now target asm.js and WebAssembly (wasm) via emscripten. That means you can run Rust code on the web, and this capability is available on Rust nightlies right now! Let me tell you how to Rust the web. First, a disclaimer. This support is still a work in progress and there are going to be a whole lot of bugs (report them, you better). It’s at the stage where it passes the test suite, but has not been vetted on real pr...

Slow network connections and long running scripts aren’t a good combination. The result will often be a timeout, that most likely will not be solved with a retry. When you use DbUp a quick fix for …

Profilers are tools designed to check how programs use various computing resources. They measure various program characteristics (memory…

The U.S.C./Los Angeles Times poll has consistently been an outlier, showing Donald Trump in the lead or near the lead.

Chuck Moore discusses what it takes to program a 144-core asynchronous chip that consumes only 7 pJ/inst, the idle cores taking just 100 nW while the active ones need 4mW running at 666 Mips: tight coding to minimize the number of instructions executed, reducing instruction fetches, transistor switching, and duty cycle.

The unprecedented move by the South Korean electronics giant is an embarrassing reversal for a respected global brand.

Edit: Going against my normal “just get the content out there” methodology, I’ve been mulling over this blog post since July of 2016.  Segment routing is such a beautifully elegant solution I have had trouble articulating that fact. WAN technologies are squarely within my wheelhouse, and this one fits in so well I was going…

Liquid marketplaces are a big part of the future of work, and Thumbtack founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta has gone after an often invisible sector that is essential to the functioning of modern society.

Cryptocurrency continues to change the world of money. Bitcoins and blockchain technology might replace traditional banking, but first it is the community who have to solve a lot of security problems. Bitcoin wallets and companies are being targeted by the criminals more and more as they face easier schemes to launder stolen funds. Traditional banks have […]

Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver. It is designed to be fast and lean and incorporates modern features based on open standards. Late 2019, Unbound has been rigorously audited, which means that the code base is more resilient than ever. To help increase online privacy, Unbound supports DNS-over-TLS …

Going on-prem can be a handful, especially maintaining those deployments. Here's how we use Kubernetes and our own tooling to help scale those efforts.

Mass DNS resolution tool. Contribute to jedisct1/massresolver development by creating an account on GitHub.

A WinForm Diagramming Tool. Contribute to cliftonm/FlowSharp development by creating an account on GitHub.

An event-driven DNS server framework. Contribute to raybellis/evldns development by creating an account on GitHub.