With some tweaking Postgres can be a great data warehouse. Here's how to configure it.

Getting good at chess is one thing. Surpassing the human brain is quite another.

Posted on Thursday 13 May 2021. 1,412 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

Set in a non-descript warehouse in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, members of Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. have been busy developing a portal to other worlds—Holodome.

And how to get started with it with no prior experience in Machine Learning.

Don’t write real-time APIs. Move your database to the browser. Homebase keeps local data in sync so you can build fast and collaborative React apps.

In this post, we use Auth0’s post-user registration hook and Courier’s automations feature to learn how to help a user sign up for your product.

It’s easier to add code than remove and simplify it

I hope that a simple Hello World example can at least give you a rough idea of how LA can be applied in programming. I won't dwell on the theory; let's see w...

This article is a part of Docker tutorials and explains the Docker container lifecycle along with Docker container commands.

The kernel's BPF virtual machine allows programs loaded from user space to be safely run in the kernel's context. That functionality would be of limited use, however, without the ability for those programs to interact with the rest of the kernel. The interface between BPF and the kernel has been kept narrow for a number of good reasons, including safety and keeping the kernel in control of the system. The 5.13 kernel, though, contains a feature that could, over time, widen that interface considerably: the ability to directly call kernel functions from BPF programs.

A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.

The only way to think for yourself is, ironically, to first understand the ideas of other people. Independent thought is won through learning.

In the previous blog post in this series, we figured out that you might not need link-layer addresses on point-to-point links. We also started exploring whether you need network-layer addresses on individual interfaces but didn’t get very far. We’ll fix that today and discover the secrets behind IP address-per-interface design. In the early days of computer networking, there were three common addressing paradigms:

The whiteboard, despite being designed specifically for schools at first, became a huge hit with the business world before schools really embraced it.

Stumbled is a collection of the greatest, most interesting and weird Sites of the Internet.

For the past month and some change, actually might’ve been two months already (It takes a day to write a proof of concept, weeks to land…

The coronavirus pandemic has taught us two things: all online systems will fail eventually, and they will fail in unpredictable ways. But have no fear; resilience engineering is here! Building and maintaining event-driven, highly scalable, and quickly adaptable systems are...

Software Testing is a method to check how the software is working whether it is fulfilling all the expected requirements.

Ong, Walter J. “Writing Is a Technology that Restructures Thought.” The Written Word: Literacy in Transition. Ed. Gerd Baumann. New York: Oxford UP, 1986. 23-50.  Summary: Ong begins wi…

Here's a fascinating proposed solution to the displaced Hmong population in China, whose farming communities are being displaced by modern planning. Xiangshu Kong, Xiaoyong Zhang and Mingsong Sun envision tall, skeletal structures built in the countryside, with farmhouses lifted into them by crane. Mobility between units, both

The firewall is essential for controlling the flow of network traffic in and out of the Linux server. It enables users to control incoming network traffic on host machines by …

Wish there was an easy way to access all your license keys and serial numbers for Windows quickly? Here's how to recover Windows Product Keys.

These simple life tweaks can immediately make your days more joyful, says the founder of the American Happiness Project.

The Willamette River Initiative helped foster collaboration across racial, ideological, and rural-urban divides, and created fruitful, ongoing relationships.