Anti-Vaxx numbers still rising, stupidity will kill our children / Boing Boing
Yet another opinion piece, this one in the New York Times, detailing how incredibly cavalier folks who decline to vaccinate their children are. It’s looking as if 2017 could become the year when th…
Blocking of international spam botnets with a Postfix plugin
This article contains an analysis and solution for blocking of international SPAM botnets with on postfix mail servers by using a postfwd plugin which...
Despite all the extraordinary advances in technology—particularly computing technology—there is one place where we’ve languished. It’s a key facet of the future that was, in many ways, better in 1987 than in 2017: the keyboard.
DIY Smart Home Doorbell for Less Than $40!: Smart doorbells are an amazing tool but still an expensive one (~$200)! Today in this Instructables, we propose to help you build your own smart home doorbell for less than $40. We will guide you through the basic core steps to build the doorbell wi…
Different businesses, similar paths. From scattered to orderly, from cobbling it together, to seeking out a system designed to work. Most companies start small. A person or two, maybe three. They n…
How Ancient Legends Gave Birth to Modern Superheroes
The images that pop up in most people’s heads when they think about superheroes can be traced back to the 1938 debut of Superman and the genre evolution that followed. But it’s possible to go back even further, connecting the Hulk to the ancient epic poem of Gilgamesh, and Batman to 17th Century cross-dressing…
Over the last 20 years I’ve been part of too many discussions where someone goes “I’m having a hard time explaining this or that…” Then they say “I just really want to say this…” And then they say …
MapR Platform Offers Persistent Data Access for Containerized Applications - The New Stack
This is the container age. The growing use of services like Docker is transforming the way that software is being handled within enterprises. However, this rise in container utilization does throw present problems for enterprise CIOs when it comes to rolling out applications in production. One of the biggest issues is scaling applications to meet…
How annotation layers define “segments of interest” for new kinds of applications | Jon Udell
Here are some analogies we use when talking about software: Construction: Programs are houses built on foundations called platforms. Ecology: Programs are organisms that depend on ecosystem service…
Seth's Blog: What's the next step for media (and for us)?
Perhaps the biggest cultural change of my lifetime has been the growing influence and ubiquity of commercial media in our lives. Commercial media companies exist to make a profit, and they've …
What a classy print from allwinedesigns on Thingiverse: I explain how I built this dial specifically to be used as a jog wheel for the Pocket NC in my blog post. It can also be used as a volume con…
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