Every time you go to the bathroom, you should thank Alexander Cumming, the first person to patent a flushable toilet. Cumming’s great innovation was to hook up the toilet to an s-shaped pipe, which uses water to stop sewer gas from coming up and entering a home. Since Cumming’s brilliant invention, the flush toilet has

As cookie-based ads go away, does the targeting move from the cloud to the client, or from the reader to the content? Does this make the strong stronger? Or does the money go to Fedex instead?

Count the number of companies you pay regularly for anything. Add up what you pay for all of them. Then think about the time you spend trying and failing to “manage” any of it—especiall…

If you want to be happy at work, never meet more than twice a day

Dqlite is a fast, embedded, persistent SQL database with Raft consensus that is perfect for fault-tolerant IoT and Edge devices.

Posted on Tuesday 25 May 2021. 841 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Create today. Predict tomorrow.

In order to use the DNS only method to setup Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol (WPAD) you need to check on the following To use WPAD using DNS method a DNS entry is needed for a host named WPAD. Thi…

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AnswerHow to  Configure WPAD through DNS First you have to configure a wpad site in your IIS Open the proxypac.pac file you have previously created and save as wpad.dat. Copy wpad.dat to the loca...

Applying "The Goal" to the business of software

Michael Hudson gives a hard look at the typical excuses for not cancelling student debt and finds them wanting.

Modeling the numbers on bottom-up and middle-out economics.

Any tech startup that wants to live beyond is seed and venture funding rounds and make it to either an initial public offering or an acquisition by a

An iFixit teardown of Apple's 24" M1 iMac, in which we cross our fingers and hope this thing isn't as iPad-like as it looks. Published May 24, 2021.

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Learn about the Ambassador pattern, which creates helper services that send network requests on behalf of a consumer service or application.

So why are journalists not covering it?

For those who have already gone through the basics of adopting Kubernetes, you’ve spent a significant amount of time preparing, deploying and improving your Kubernetes environment. Once you’ve gained confidence, you’re ready to refine what’s been set up. The Kubernetes Maturity Model includes seven phases in the process of achieving full Kubernetes maturity. In phase…

With the newest edition of the gRPC protocol, microservices-based systems will no longer need separate stand-alone service mesh sidecars, noted Megan Yahya, Google's product manager for gRPC, in her talk at earlier this month. Instead, for those already using gRPC, they can extend the service directly to the control plane, and have it take over…

European company Sixay Furniture manufactures this beautiful SIXtematic series of drawer chests, which feature tons of flat, A4-sized drawers. While the Kommode line above features straight legs, the SIXtematic2 line gets a little more playful with the base

The department's inability to change over the past year has shown that its problems are hardwired into policing, and reform is not working.

There are all kinds of arguments to make about the App Store, and nearly all of them are good ones; that’s why the best solution can only come from Apple.

Last year's BLM protests fueled major actions on police accountability, tax reform and environmental justice. But no one thinks the work is done.