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In object files, certain code patterns embed data within instructions or transitions occur between instruction sets. This can create hurdles for disassemblers, which might misinterpret data as code, r

An exploration of using object storages (like s3) as the storage for data-intensive applications

The recent Windows crashes are downstream from trying to encourage competition in areas Microsoft should have never made open to begin with, highlighting the challenge for regulators.

Pondering the evolution of Mad Libs and Droodles—two iconic brain teasers from the 1950s that share an inventor.

As fascinating and alarming as generative AI may be, it doesn't have much practical use yet.

Yesterday I discovered that Amazon had decreed that my Kindle e-ink device was too old. This post is my 🧠-dump of a intensive afternoon & evening of researching what to replace it with.

Our take on the CrowdStrike incident in July 2024 bringing down the global economy at once. And how we aim to reduce that risk in the future.

If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the exclusive preserve of old men with shiny radios talking about old times remains a challenge. Especially, considerin…

How to capitalism with care

Oops, they did it again. Early this morning, McAfee released an update to its antivirus definitions for corporate customers that mistakenly deleted a crucial Windows XP file, sending systems into a reboot loop and requiring tedious manual repairs. It's not the first strike for the company, either. I've got details.

I am a Windows guy. I have always used Windows at home, work, school, everywhere with the exception of my phone and one Linux class at FIU. I have an A+ and MCTS in Windows Vista. Soon I will have my MCITP. I drink the cool aid. But Linux saved me and the company I sub-contract to, a large fast food giant, from near total disaster. Last month McAfee posted a virus definition update that flagged SVCHOST.EXE as a virus. This is my story of what happened.

As we are doing NervesCloud we are thinking a lot about adoption for Nerves. Our market is tightly bound to the number of folks doing IoT/embedded projects and choosing Nerves. The business can only thrive if Nerves thrives. Nerves can only thrive if Elixir thrives.

Creating effective search requires choosing the right search technique, optimizing the database, clarifying search queries and properly structuring data.

Many other markets exploded once open standards replaced proprietary systems. The same opportunity is at hand for the observability market.

Backend monitoring will give you an incomplete, and possibly incorrect, view of what your mobile users are experiencing.

Chicory was created to bring some of the benefits of WebAssembly to native JVM environments. It's like a virtual machine within a virtual machine.

PLDB: a Programming Language Database. Build the next great programming language.

Mocking is an Anti-Pattern - ways for better tests without mocking

An app that track your subscription

Beating another dead horse.

Posted on Friday 19 Jul 2024. 1,601 words, 29 links. By Matt Webb.

Brett Solomon shares insights from 15 years as Access Now Co-founder and Executive Director.

Visual programming and textual code should co-exist next to each other, not replace one another

The Philosophy Behind Monorepos

The Philosophy Behind Monorepos

Make your tools work better for you.

Designing combinatorial digital circuits seems like it should be easy. After all, you can do everything you want with just AND, OR, and NOT gates. Bonus points if you have an XOR gate, but you can …

The processing power of modern game consoles is absolutely staggering when compared to the coin-op arcade machines of the early 1980s. Packed with terabytes of internal storage and gigabytes of RAM…

A summary of my time at Brighton Ruby 2024.

Using spreadsheets in platform engineering is manual and error-prone, failing to provide a centralized single source of truth for development teams.