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The economy has not bounced back to prepandemic employment levels, even as G.D.P. effectively has. Some blame unemployment benefits for keeping workers at home, while others claim that it is the virus still holding back customers and therefore employers from adding jobs. Yet there is a third factor that is likely the labor market’s primary […]

This is interesting: USC urban planning professor Geoff Boeing examined the street networks of 100 world cities as a measure of their spatial logic and order. The cities with the most ordered streets are Chicago, Miami, and Minneapolis; most disordered are Charlotte, São Paulo, and Rome. “On average, US/Canadian study sites are far more grid-like than those elsewhere, exhibiting less entropy and circuity.” (Geoff Boeing, “Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, Configuration, and Entropy,” Applied Network Science 4:1 [2019], 1-19.) (Via Ethan Mollick.)

People almost universally recall their adolescence, at least the part encapsulated by the middle school years, as their least favorite phase of life. It’s a time in which you keenly feel the eyes of your peers upon you. You wonder whether you’re cool. And you desperately, desperately want to be cool. You want to be […]

Run all your connections through a Raspberry Pi that stays connected to the VPN service of your choice.

Govcoins: The digital currencies that will transform finance – Weekly edition of The Economist for May 8th 2021. You've seen the news, now discover the story.

WireGuard full mesh configuration generator. Contribute to k4yt3x/wg-meshconf development by creating an account on GitHub.

Building a personal VPN with WireGuard

You’re a few years into your tenure as CEO of a Vandelay Industries, a behemoth in the Transpondsting space that’s existed for many decades. The Real Strategy You could really use the s…

If you've been using open source software for any amount of time, then you're well aware of the tangled web of dependencies often involved in such projects. If not, there's any number of tools out there that explore just how interconnected everything is, and this week Google has jumped into the game with its own…

It’s priceless. When we’re used to it, when it comes along as a result of nothing we did to earn it, we take it for granted. But when you don’t have it, it makes everything more d…

Why you should organize code by logical entities rather than by layers of the tech stack

With containers, we don't always care about data being retained after a crash. See how volatile overlay mounts can help increase performance in these situations.

Extensible auto-tagger for your IaC files. The ultimate way to link entities in the cloud back to the codified resource which created it.

We are excited to announce the new open source project: Teleport Wormhole, a Kubernetes network plugin that combines the simplicity of flannel with encrypted networking from WireGuard.

Intro One of the ironies of working a lot with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift is that I’ve had to learn a lot about Vagrant and Virtualbox. Mostly I use it to spin up OpenShift clusters on…

Recently I’ve been testing clusters of VMs running on my local host. I thought that there must be a standard way to test multi-node VM setups, but asking around at work, and on github yielded…

Since I work a lot with clustered VMs, I’ve ended up spending a lot of time trying to figure out how DNS lookups work. I applied ‘fixes’ to my problems from StackOverflow without …

Network security company  recently released Yor, an open-source tool that automatically tags cloud resources within infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks. According to Barak Schoster, a chief architect with Palo Alto Networks, Yor came about as an idea after asking users for input on another security tool he and his team created. "One of the reasons…

Continuous integration has become an unexpected bottleneck with specific challenges. Here's how to begin modernizing CI.

This blog post is part of a series, looking at the public interest internet—the parts of the internet that don’t garner the headlines of Facebook or Google, but quietly provide public goods and