The term narcissism comes from the mythical Greek character Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image reflected in still water.

How our fantasy world of the past has become everyday reality.

MIT alumni Benton Calhoun and David Wentzloff are co-founders of Everactive, the MIT-connected startup using wireless sensing to provide continuous remote monitoring for the industrial internet of things.

A software developer has uncovered a security flaw in Apple’s vaunted M1 SoC. The only fix for the issue would be for Apple to redesign the chip although the chances of the vulnerability being exploited maliciously are low.

At multiple companies, I’ve had to build relatively simple decision engines. Something like “given this series of conditions, do we send…

My first attempt at Linux was one of those "maybe I should give this a try" kinds of situations.

If cops are not arresting bodies for export to dumping grounds, then what are they doing with of all of their time?

This article gives a brief introduction to EXPLAIN ANALYZE, explains what to look for and shows some helpful tools to visualize the output.

I came across an article comparing F# and Clojure on a toy problem, a json treasure hunt to find a certain value in a large json document a...

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API documentation is the technical documentation of an API. It usually includes everything from what types the API supports to which…

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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and his cofounders weren’t interested in starting a business, and even less interested in making a profit on the tech. Eight years later, at least three are billionaires.

A new study shows that, far from increasing selfishness, individualistic societies feature higher levels of altruism.

Git Alias is a useful feature for you to create shortcut for commonly used Git commands. Learn what Git aliases are, how to add and use them.

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix — and what the role entails

In less than 20 minutes, two filmmakers captured a magnificent moment in music history. Heavy Metal Parking Lot is turning 35, and we’re ready to celebrate.

We’ve all been there. Something goes wrong with your broadband, so you call your provider to find the problem. When on the phone with your provider, they don’t know who you are or what the problem is. Worst of all, they make you try all the troubleshooting steps that you’ve already done all over again.…

Stacklet has released its signature product this week with the launch of Stacklet Platform, which the company said is an "industry-first cloud governance as code platform," in a statement. Stacklet Platform is based on the open source Cloud Custodian, which became a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox level project last summer, and extends it…

In my previous life as a firewall admin, I found that there were two key things to maintaining a healthy firewall ACL. First, ensure it passes the necessary traffic! Secondly, ensure that the ACL was cluttered with any unnecessary ACL entries. By making sure our ACL's were clutter-free allowed us

In my earlier post, I opened a discussion about how to avoid missing a deadline. But what happens if you can’t avoid it? Projects are always on the frontier, combining elements and ideas and …

Deadlines are valuable, and deadlines are expensive. Organized systems and societies need deadlines. It would be impossible to efficiently build a house if the subcontractors could deliver their go…

X.509 certificates have been around for 40 years and have proven to be a trustworthy means of exchanging data. So, what are the differences between X.509 ceritificates and SSI? And what are the advantages of each?

Car blogs are a'twitter with images of this custom Boat Tail, designed and handbuilt by Rolls-Royce's Coachbuild program. The Boat Tail is essentially a one-off droptop with a picnic service in the trunk, an umbrella for shade and a built-in champagne 'fridge that can nail 6 degrees

A new Developer Velocity Lab effort from Microsoft and GitHub digs into what makes a day "good" to help boost developer productivity and satisfaction.