NIUS.TV was a non-linear TV news aggregator for mobile devices that converts articles on topics that interest our users into short-form videos using AI. It was a project that ran from October 2019 to April 2021, though early experiments dated back to May 2018. We produced around 100 stories during this period, and more than…

Unqork has extended its no-code SDLC management platform to automatically document changes to APIs and data models.

This 101 guide covers everything about Web Components. Find out what Web Components are and how you can use them effectively.

Could this be the future of debugging?

Reverse engineering x86 apps with Triton, symbolic analysis

Robby speaks with Kevin Stewart, VP of Engineering at Harvest. They discuss fighting ideological battles, why time-to-deploy is one of the most valuable metrics to measure and improve, and why teams should be revisiting their technical stack decisions. Kevin also gives advice to developers and shares some approaches to running internship programs.

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“Just put it up on a server somewhere.” “Just add a favorite button to the right side of the item.” “Just add [insert complex option here] to the settings screen.” Usage of the word “just” points t…

The RISC-V CPU architecture has been gaining prominence for some years; its relatively open nature makes it an attractive platform on which a number of companies have built products. Linux supports RISC-V well, but there is one gaping hole: there is no support for virtualization with KVM, despite the fact that a high-quality implementation exists. A recent attempt to add that support is shining some light on a part of the ecosystem that, it seems, does not work quite as well as one would like.

This is the companion reference for A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages, my lecture for a friend’s college class. The video should be legible to other viewers, and the material here should be (mostly) understandable without watching the video. The Esolangs Listed roughly in order of appearance in the talk, with the exception of Piet, which was moved to fit in with the other multicoded esolangs. INTERCAL Don Woods, 1972.

WebSockets and Socket.IO are probably two of the most popular solutions for implementing real-time communications in the modern web

Finding a way for applications to do atomic writes to files, so that either the old or new data is present after a crash and not a combination of the two, was the topic of a session led by Christoph Hellwig at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM). Application developers hate the fact that when they update files in place, a crash can leave them with old or new data—or sometimes a combination of both. He discussed some implementation ideas that he has for atomic writes for XFS and wanted to see what the other filesystem developers thought about it.

Clarified Question: When the OS sends the command to write a sector to disk is it atomic? i.e. Write of new data succeeds fully or old data is left intact should the power fail immediately followin...

I have recently written about how major changes in storage technology are changing conventional knowledge on how to deal with storage I/O…

How in 1982, the author successfully hacked his way out of having to fill in potholes.

I wanted to sit down and write about all the tricks we learned and that we used every day to help make builds more manageable in the absence of Ear...

Your Makefiles are full of tabs and errors. An opinionated approach to writing (GNU) Makefiles that I learned from Ben may still be able to salvage them.

A story on how to increase quality and consistency in mobile apps

The performance has many meanings. Should you care about every single one? Is fast code enough? Does the performance even matter!?

Coordinate concurrent workloads with distributed locks! But how to build one that's cheap, robust and maintenance-free? A proposed algorithm.

SMTP should be blocked on public networks. Email technology offers no effective means to stop phishing, so it’s been a runaway success for the attackers, and a disaster for millions of victims. Sunsetting SMTP is clearly necessary and feasible. So, I’ve drafted a protocol called TMTP and I’d like to tell you about it.

Concurrency and parallelism are two terms often used in relation to multithreaded applications. This tutorial explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism.