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Eric Lippert notes the perils of programming in C++: I often think of C++ as my own personal Pit of Despair Programming Language. Unmanaged C++ makes it so easy to fall into traps. Think buffer overruns, memory leaks, double frees, mismatch between allocator and deallocator, using freed memory, umpteen dozen

The App Store era must end and the solution is already here.

Near Space Labs, a US-based startup, aims to use stratospheric robots to monitor and assess disaster-prone areas in the US.

It’s useful to think of the OSI model as an abstraction that allows us to reason about the separation of concerns on a network.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a fundamental practice for cloud-native applications and infrastructure to define, provision, and manage IT infrastructure.

With the addition of Capella Free Tier, developers can experiment and build new projects without financial, time or flexibility constraints.

OpenVPN, while reliable, struggles with performance and complexity compared to WireGuard.

Slack: The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows AI Hype Is Cooling Executives are all in on AI, with 99% planning AI investment in the coming year. And yet, for the first time since generative AI’s introduction, adoption rates are plateauing and excitement is cooling among the global workforce. This

I am rediscovering the small web. My partial withdrawal from big tech won’t make much difference to them. But it will make me feel better. Help me reconnect with something I lost. Give me a sense of control.| Ramblings, occasionally insightful, of another old software developer you've never heard of.

A review of the cataloging application from Delicious Monster, and exploration …

Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1 million users a day for a bit last week. One sentiment I’m hearing a lot recently is that Bluely “feels like early Twitter,” which to be fair, I

Nue joins the web development warfront with a Markdown framework optimized for progressive enhancement. We test it out for frontend devs.

Ramblings, occasionally insightful, of another old software developer you've never heard of.

I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot repeat history exactly. However, I can rhyme with it.

I just looked for the word “weave” among my half-million photos, and found this:   We’ve been trying to solve identity problems online since the Internet showed up, roughly i…

Before we start, have a look at this image. It is from a German book from the early Nineties, and it features some very interesting cover artwork. A knight with a cape and a big bushy mustache rides a friendly green dragon. A castle, a dolphin, and some animals are in the background. Focus on the details; we will return to that image at the end.

Much has been written and a lot of analysis performed on the global BGP table over the years, a significant portion by the inimitable Geoff Huston. However this often focuses on is long term trends, like the growth of the routing table or the adoption of IPv6 , dealing with time frames of of months or years.

Almost a month ago, I created a telegram channel with the goal of reading tech books consistently, and sharing summaries of them.This week, I have finished reading the first book - “A Philosophy of So

Learn how to optimize your website's performance using different script loading strategies. Deep dive into async, defer, and regular script tags

Learn metrics, tools, and practices for API reliability to enhance performance, scalability, and user satisfaction in modern applications

Understanding legacy code, how to prevent it, and how to fix it

OOP has been hailed as the savior of software development world, but is it truly the answer to every software challenge or it is just an illusion of simplicity?

Some number of years ago, I actually did what I should have. Today I reaped the benefit.

Posted on Friday 22 Nov 2024. 893 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

It's been absolutely fascinating to watch the narrative about AI shift over the last few weeks – from very boisterous claims that "AGI (artificial general intelligence) is just around the corner" to a rather big "maybe not." According to some researchers, the current approach isn't going to work after all. While

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