Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency is Upending Mobile Phone Tracking | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Apple’s long-awaited privacy update for iOS is out, and it’s a solid step in the right direction. With the launch of iOS 14.5, hundreds of millions of iPhone users will now interact with Apple’s new
We can improve and magnify things in very short order. Light bulbs, elevators, website technology–give it some time, and people will pile on and all of the important metrics will be sharpened…
Clausewitz on Overcoming the Annoying Slog of Life | The Art of Manliness
Man, life can be a slog sometimes. Each day, annoying little piddly things arise that aren’t hard to manage one by one, but, when taken together, really muck up your mojo. Your car breaks down, your kid gets sick, an employee loses a file, you’ve discovered a leak in your roof . . . and […]
There is an eternal antagonism of interest between the individual and the world at large. The individual will not so much care how much he may suffer in this world provided he can live in men’s good thoughts long after he has left it. The world at large does not so much care how much suffering the individual may either endure or cause in this life, provided he will take himself clean away out of men’s thoughts, whether for good or ill, when he has left it. — Samuel Butler, Notebooks
Deploy, Scale and Upgrade an Application on Kubernetes with Helm
This guide walks you through the process of bootstrapping an example MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node.js (MEAN) application on a Kubernetes cluster. It uses a custom Helm chart to create a Node.js and MongoDB environment and then clone and deploy a MEAN application from a public Github repository into that environment.
kvm - Should LVM partitions be used in virtual machine images? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Should LVM be used for the partitions when creating VM images (e.g., KVM images)? It seems like it adds complexity if you want to, say, mount a qcow2 image in the host if the image has LVM partitio...
In Windows, you can use something like 7-zip to extract an ova file. In Linux, you can just untar it mv something.ova . something.tgz tar xvf something.tgz
Why are some decentralized systems accepted and widely used while others wither? Why do some “hard forks” succeed while others fail? It all comes down to legitimacy.
‘Reverse ETL’ Can Help Companies Operationalize Data Lakes – The New Stack
Enterprises building data lakes and warehouses have been turning to third-party vendors to bring in data. Building connectors to applications likes Salesforce is tedious and requires data engineering expertise. Plus, the SaaS platforms change up their data schemas and API details. These data pipeline vendors extract data from the source systems and load the data…
Beyond Block and File: COSI Enables Object Storage in Kubernetes – The New Stack
Kubernetes has been invaluable in developing today’s applications. There are other options for container orchestration systems, but Kubernetes is recognized as one of the most popular and mature options. Let’s now look at the power of this system, its limitations and the innovation that has made it even more usable and beneficial. Kubernetes: A Quick…
Slow Jamstack Builds: Netlify’s Solution Is Distributed Persistent Rendering – The New Stack
Jamstack is a modern web development concept invented by Netlify, a company that offers CI/CD and deployment services for the web. Typically, a Jamstack approach calls for pre-rendering as much of a website's content as possible and delivering it via a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Dynamic functionality can be added to the mix via the…
Helena is a high-level programming language for web automation. It comes with Rousillon, a programming-by-demonstration (PBD) tool for writing Helena programs. Just open the Rousillon browser extension, demonstrate how to collect the first row of a dataset, then let Rousillon write a program for collecting the remaining rows.
The Rabbit Hole: The Definitive Developer's Podcast: 203. Definition of Done
Today we are speaking about getting things done! What does it mean when we say something is done and how can you and your team get a better handle on the concept for better products? At times, as developers, we might feel like we are done as soon as the code is written and passed, but in reality, there are more steps in the process, and to get to a real state of being finished we need to formulate a proper framework or checklist for being done! This is one of the issues with working with different teams, as responsibility can sometimes get a bit lost, and so putting some time in, to develop an appropriate way to measure completion can lead to fewer issues and confusion down the road. In today's episode, we also look at the important aspects of feedback and corrections, and how 'done' might be a relative term, especially as your products gets increasingly complex. So for all this and a few more thoughts on how you can move things into that beautiful 'done' column, come with us, down the Rabbit Hole!
Github repository here Open source Puns! We've got a data dump of all of our puns on our site. You can check out the Github repository here We would appreciate you keeping the source of Punatorium with the data you use. You can use it for private or commercial purpose,
So, you just wanna stream 24/7, and occasionally switch input on a timer? How hard could that be? For your amusement, read the comments in the ~2000 line sh script that keeps DNA Lounge running. Here be monsters. When I say that almost all of my coding stems from either self defense or spite, this is what I mean.
By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this development cycle. That makes 5.12 the slowest development cycle since 5.6, which was released at the end of March 2020. Still, there was plenty of work done for 5.12. Read on for our traditional look at where that work came from and how it got into the kernel.
No-Curb Streets Are Seattle's Hottest Traffic Trend - Slog - The Stranger
The new Capitol Hill Farmers Market moved to its new permanent location along Barbara Bailey Way on the most perfect weekend of the year, during a brief mid-April heat wave under and cloudless sunny skies that drew hundreds to stroll happily amongst the tents. It seemed idyllic, but Mark Ostrow’s not convinced it couldn’t be better. “We have curbs for a reason,” he says. “They protect people from cars.” An advocate for sustainable streets, Ostrow...
Airports could generate enough solar energy to power a city: Study
A new study has found Australia's government-owned airports could produce enough electricity to power 136,000 homes, if they had large-scale rooftop solar systems installed.