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The idea of tracking productivity on an engineering team isn’t new. We have been trying with varying levels of success since the creation…

People focus on delivering the plan not creating software

Giving sites your credit card or phone number can cause headaches, spam, and worse. But there’s a better way: temporary, “burner” payment and contact methods.

Manufacturers’ marketing reflects good intentions and the realities of challenged supply chains and tightening laws

A friendly programming language from the future.

Creating an Ansible playbook to automate partition creation and managing storage with Logical Volume Manager (LVM).

As I work on Zorex, an omnipotent regexp engine I have stumbled into a world of tales about why Unicode text sorting is so annoying in the modern day. Let’s talk about that.

I am grumpy. As my very clever wife summarised, I hate when designers prioritise their æsthetic preferences over my usability needs. I tried sharing a website using Google Chrome for Android. I hit…

Phrenology was discredited a long time ago. People who should have known better were sure that by studying the bumps on someone’s head, a trained expert could divine insights about their personalit…

Mistral Contrastin's thought bubble, blog, and personal revelations.

In this article, I will show how to fix the 504 Gateway Timeout error by increasing the request timeout in the NGINX web server.

The question-and-answer site Quora may have strayed into a stereotype, when a user asked the loaded question, "Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?" But some of the most convincing rebuttals came from people in their 60s. One was Steven Ussery, who received his masters in computer science back in 1989 at…

New research by two leading scientists says some dire warnings of environmental damage from technology are overstated.

Teams that scale, provision and configure cloud resources manually risk committing errors that might affect the performance or availability of their systems. Fortunately, there’s a way out: It’s called automation. Cloud automation solutions reduce or eliminate all the manual effort your team invests into configuring virtual machines, creating VM clusters, setting up virtual networks and…

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Nokia Bell Labs, and Heriot-Watt University have found a low-cost way for backscatter radios to support high-throughput communication and 5G-speed Gb/sec data transfer using only a single transistor when previously it required expensive and multiple stacked transistors.

As users hunger for new versions and fresh features of their favorite apps, software developers are under increasing pressure to release updated apps in shorter and shorter time spans. However, when developers code faster, they’re naturally apt to make more errors, which can ruin the user experience and harm a brand’s digital reputation as customers…

When we switched to a new search query parser in September 2020, you'd never know that anything had changed. This is an account of the rigorous testing that happened behind the scenes to ensure a seamless transition.

Touching The Technology Apple to scan iCloud photos for Child abuse images Sarmad Sohaib • August 6, 2021 • Apple, Tech Apple to scan iCloud photos for child abuse images, starting from the United States. Financial Times reported Apple is making plans to scan photos … Asus rolling out BIOS update, Windows 11 and TPM ready Sarmad […]

An international vessel-tracking system appears to show UK destroyer HMS Defender travel to within a few kilometres of a Russian naval base even though a web cam feed shows it was docked at Odessa, Ukraine

Tmux is a free, open source command line Terminal multiplexer. This guide explains the usage of Tmux command with examples in Linux and Unix.

Under the umbrella of NVIDIA's ray-tracing feature, DLSS is another feature that is game-changing. Here's how Nivdia's DLSS works.

Say we wanted to create an Accordion component that lets us expand and collapse sections within the Accordion, such that only one section can be expanded at a time. This is a good candidate for a Compound Component. Let’s first create an Accordion with three sections, without trying to abstract out any logic.

Systemizer is a system design tool that allows you to simulate systems. Create and simulate your system with many customizable components.

There is an inexorable trend toward storing and sending immutable data. We need immutability to coordinate at a distance, and we can afford immutability as storage gets cheaper. This article is an amuse-bouche sampling the repeated patterns of computing that leverage immutability. Climbing up and down the compute stack really does yield a sense of déjà vu all over again.

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