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In stories, you will often find the motif of a powerful demon that can be controlled only by knowing its true name. Once the hero finds out that name, through cunning dialogue or by investigating ancient tomes, they can turn things around and banish the demon!

Released 35 years ago, the NeXT Computer was a commercial failure, but its groundbreaking features ended up redefining personal computing.

Junior engineers worry about senior engineers taking over on projects they want to lead. Some even think of hiding their work until it’s near launch. However, this is the opposite of what you should do since collaboration increases your impact. Here are two ways that some engineers always lead.

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TLDR: You can safely open a URL in a sandboxed browser via browserling.com/browse – my team and I built it! We run the sandboxed browsers in an isolated network in virtual machines and stream just the browser window to you. ## What is a URL sandbox? A URL sandbox is a secure environment used to safely inspect,...

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Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn't understand the idea of fun. Here's why evangelists like Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian were wrong.

Explore the art of making API decisions. Learn about types, data formats, and best practices for seamless integration. Elevate your development strategies

I have been talking about the expansion of needs when it comes to API operations, the lifecycle, and governance for a number of years now. I have been hearing it called the great unbundling of API management for a little while now, and while the word “unbundling” is appropriate, it represents an outsider, or market-driven view of what is needed. Unbundling refers to the separation of components from a suite of products the last generation of API service providers were selling you, so that we can invent new words to describe the new suite of modular products that matter when selling you something. Which is fine, except it isn’t about what is needed on the ground, and has no self-reflection about how we deliver modular API-driven solutions. Outsiders never want you to sell you API-driven solutions, because they are harder to see, quantify, and trap you into a single way of buying / selling.

WebAssembly has the promise of a true paradigm shift. So did serverless. How to let WebAssembly develop as a serverless redo and not suffer as a serverless redux.

A drag-and-drop Kubernetes tool for deploying any software in seconds, harpoon provides a visual Kubernetes interface to deploy production-grade software with no code.

Cilium taps eBPF for hooks for extending runtime observability, security, and networking capabilities across various deployment environments.

Dapr’s unified APIs and patterns, including workflow, span language barriers and frameworks, freeing developers from challenges of fragmented technologies.

Overwhelmed by the data deluge? Michel Koopman, CEO of getAbstract, offers some simple strategies for transforming a waterfall of information into knowledge that you can actually use.

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A look at how distributed tracing can help when testing systems before production.

The Best MP3 Encoder is LAME When it comes to MP3 encoding, there is one de-facto leader in the open-source industry: LAME. It’s been given the attention of software and audio engineers for years which shows in the extensive features it comes with. If you want to encode audio data to MP3 with professional performance and quality, you either use LAME or something built on top of it. If you’re a programmer and want to encode audio to MP3, you likely search your language’s ecosystem to piggyback off someone else’s work.

Hyperscript is a newer language for handling common scripting needs on the JavaScript front end. You can use it by itself or in tandem with HTMX.

I realized recently that I had now passed 30 years on the internet, having obtained my first internet access in August of 1993 — the same year that many consider to be the year that the internet be…

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

There are some important things to consider when creating a continuous infrastructure pipeline similar to that for continuous delivery of applications.

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Our dependence on CI has expanded far beyond its original scope, turning into a velocity bottleneck for serious development teams.

Microsoft says Skype "remains a great option." But it has lost daily users in the past three years, while other services, including Microsoft Teams, have grown.