When the data doesn't go its way, the US broadband industry has a tendency to just make up data that does. That was certainly the...

The fastest, easiest way to share data and analytics inside your company. An open source Business Intelligence server you can install in 5 minutes that connects to MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and more! Anyone can use it to build charts, dashboards and nightly email reports.

I used a Lisp variant in my first programming job, so I have some appreciation for the “code as data” power of that language. Nowadays I’m building an analytics system that combin…

Universal remotes are great but what if you could control your media via your coffee table? Do just that with this innovative Instructables walkthrough.

The soundtrack of a movie can really help make a film, deepening the anxiety of suspense, heightening the glory of victory, magnifying the heartache of tragedy, and accenting the protagonist’s change of course. Daniel Day-Lewis’ leap into a waterfall in The Last of the Mohicans wouldn’t be as dramatic without Trevor Jones’ score swelling in the […]

It has been a while since I have been excited to write about encrypted tunnels. It might be the sheer pain of troubleshooting old technologies or countless hours of falling down the rabbit hole of a project’s source code that always motivated me to pursue a better alternative — without much luck. However, I believe…

In Micron's keynote today at (virtual) Computex, the memory manufacturer announced they have started shipping the companies first PCIe 4.0 SSDs, using their latest...

A new study calls for lidding I-5. Why isn't Inslee listening?

Communities across North America are facing a watershed moment in the history of our transportation infrastructure. With cities, citizens, and transportation officials all looking for alternatives to

(click to enlarge photos)   ========== 180 DEGREE VARIATION  Here gain is Werner Lenggenhager on Melrose Place North, but this time looking in the opposite direction to the north and in the su…

Help protect your bike and your community: Register your bike in the 529 Garage, and do your part to respond to stolen bike alerts in your neighborhood.

A feature highlight of the new JSON subscript support within PostgreSQL 14.

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Here are two policies it might be fun to try for a week: Meeting abstention: Anyone invited to an internal meeting has the power to opt-out. “Send me the summary, please.” If someone ab…

KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 – Virtual wrapped a couple of weeks ago, and we now have a treasure trove of conference talks to watch at our leisure. There are 225 of them! I’ve managed to catch up with some of these. While there are always quite a few takeaways from an event of this size, I’d…

Rufus is an open-source application to create a bootable USB drive. Learn how you can use Rufus to create a bootable flash drive in Windows.

Interaction patterns in SSI differ from what we see in a traditional IAM system that is performing authentication and authorization. This post discussed three different authentication and authorization patterns and then shows how they are all specializations of the general verifiable credential exchange pattern.

As the world warms, these Earth systems are changing. Could further warming make them spiral out of control?

Implementing an 8080 emulator in a microservice architecture on top of kubernetes

Even as cloud computing remains popular, concerns remain about security, particularly when companies store large amounts of sensitive data in the cloud. However, an emerging option called confidential computing could lead to a confidential cloud, too

Despite being very different projects Wikidata and OpenStreetmap have a number of similarities. Recurring patterns in how they organise and support the work of their communities. We documented a nu…

Everyone can learn how to code. Computer science theories will teach you how to program

Sometimes to solve a problem we tend to choose a set of tools we got used to. How often we pick a tool just because we know it, and not necessarily because it's the right one for a task at hand? These are my rules to overcome that.

All developers will understand the difficulty that comes along with deciding whether to build or to buy. In today’s episode, we discuss why it’s so important to think about this decision before you make it; there are so many factors to take into consideration and you don’t want to act hastily. Co-hosts Michael and Dave discuss the pros and cons of building and buying, tiers that exist within the build or buy spectrum, and something that they would never build. They share a question that you should always ask yourself before diving in, and some red flags to look out for. If you’re in the market to buy, this episode is also full of examples of great places you can do so!