Making a ‘Safe’ City Safer for Women: Lessons from Madrid

With a woman helming the city, Madrid is at the front of a global movement against sexual harassment and intimidation. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 7 years ago

ARE PATENT CLAIMS COMING FOR Your WS2812?

There are some components which are used within our sphere so often as to become ubiquitous, referred to by their part number without the need for a hasty dig through a data sheet to remind oneself… | Continue reading


@hackaday.com | 7 years ago

Tokbox has be acquired by Vonage

Today I’m pleased to announce that TokBox has been acquired by Vonage, and will become part of Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform. | Continue reading


@tokbox.com | 7 years ago

What would happen if the earth turned into blueberries?

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@chronicle.com | 7 years ago

Tina Brown

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@atelierdore.com | 7 years ago

Let’s Just Gaze Upon Sam Heughan For a Bit

Also: The Outlander season 4 trailer is here. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 7 years ago

WhatsApp is all set to start charging business users

Facebook owned WhatsApp messenger service will start charging businesses for sending marketing and customer service messages, it said on Wednesday, as the social network company’s flagship brand faces slowing usage and revenue growth. The messages will | Continue reading


@trendiee.com | 7 years ago

Confluence finally supports inline code blocks like GitHub and Slack

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@jira.atlassian.com | 7 years ago

Income inequality: US vs. Europe

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@pixel.nymag.com | 7 years ago

Improving our conversion rate 500% (Part 3)

This is the third and last post in a series I’ve been sharing on how we’ve significantly improved the conversion rate of our landing page… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

Survey: USA vs. China Electronics Contract Manufacturing

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@surveymonkey.com | 7 years ago

China Is Trying to Wipe Taiwan Off the Map

Slate’s Use of Your Data | Continue reading


@slate.com | 7 years ago

How Netflix Makes Money

The streaming giant is spending big on original content, yet it’s still cheap for consumers. How in the world does that work? | Continue reading


@theringer.com | 7 years ago

Ars on your lunch break: Tim O‘Reilly discusses the birth of “open source”

We flash back to a time in the '90s when it seemed like Microsoft would eat everything. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 years ago

Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

Hi Mark Zuckerberg, I am writing you this letter as a disappointed user of Facebook. Specifically by the way Facebook treat its’ users.You have a respon... | Continue reading


@indiehackers.com | 7 years ago

Why You Should Be Using Firefox Test Pilot

Firefox has risen from the ashes to become one of the finest browsers on the planet. One reason for this is the Test Pilot program. See why this program is important and how to use it. | Continue reading


@techrepublic.com | 7 years ago

Secure, remote login from any device with Cloudflare Access

Cloudflare Access enables zero-trust protection of internal resources by securing, authenticating and monitoring access. With Cloudflare Access you can benefit from zero trust without a VPN. | Continue reading


@cloudflare.com | 7 years ago

Stunning photo of a lightning storm with undulating asperitas clouds

Holy moly, would you look at this photo taken by Gabriel Zaparolli!This photo shows a distant lightning storm and asperitas cl | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 7 years ago

Attacking the attackers

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@asaf.me | 7 years ago

Self-Employment and Government

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@siderea.dreamwidth.org | 7 years ago

Climate change brings the UK’s hidden past to the surface

A heat wave reveals ghostly outlines of long-buried archaeological sites in the UK. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 years ago

One Data Science Job Doesn’t Fit All

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@linkedin.com | 7 years ago

Service Discovery for Modern Distributed Applications

I am starting a new blog series (with no end date) from today. In this series, I will pick a topic and go in-depth so that I don’t just scratch surface of the topic. The goal is to build a ha… | Continue reading


@shekhargulati.com | 7 years ago

Kotlin 1.2.60 is out

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.2.60, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2. This release: Adds optional expected annotations to multiplatform projects Allows building mult… | Continue reading


@blog.jetbrains.com | 7 years ago

OpenWrt 18.06.0 – First Stable Release

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@openwrt.org | 7 years ago

Russian embassy trolls US launch industry after new rocket engine sale

"Russian rocket engines to continue launching America into space." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 years ago

Keyboards are not a detail (2013)

Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures... | Continue reading


@esr.ibiblio.org | 7 years ago

The Swedish Job: Daring Thieves Steal Royal Jewels, Escape on Motorboat

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@choice.npr.org | 7 years ago

Ubuntu Server development summary – 31 July 2018

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode.… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 7 years ago

Supreme Court Says Kids Can Sue Trump Over Climate Change

The high court called the breadth of the lawsuit "striking." | Continue reading


@motherjones.com | 7 years ago

Siemens acquires Mendix for €600M

Today marks the next phase in a journey that started more than a decade ago. I am very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement under which Siemens AG will acquire Mendix for €0.6B in cash, plus a significant multi-year investment to accelerate R&D innovation and glo … | Continue reading


@mendix.com | 7 years ago

Google Buys Property to Build Data Center Near Dallas

A small Texas community is learning its ABCs as Alphabet comes calling. | Continue reading


@datacenterknowledge.com | 7 years ago

Show HN: Castr – Livestream to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and More Simultaneously

Start streaming to multiple sites simultaneously using Castr. Stream to Facebook, Youtube, Twitch, Mixer & other popular live streaming platforms easily. | Continue reading


@castr.io | 7 years ago

Getting Ramped-Up on Airflow with MySQL → S3 → Redshift

I recently joined Plaid as a data engineer and was getting ramped up on Airflow, a workflow tool that we used to manage ETL pipelines… | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 7 years ago

We Checked the Android Source Code by PVS-Studio, or Nothing Is Perfect

Development of large complex projects is impossible without the use of programming techniques and tools helping to monitor the quality of the code. First, it requires a literate coding st... | Continue reading


@viva64.com | 7 years ago

This Firefox add-on is super valuable for developers, I totally love it

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@addons.mozilla.org | 7 years ago

“I love walking around the city. I catch the Metro North train...

“I love walking around the city. I catch the Metro North train at 11:40 every morning. I go to the same gym that I’ve been going to for forty years. Then I just start walking. If you take big strides it really stretches you out. And there are millions of other people walking … | Continue reading


@humansofnewyork.com | 7 years ago

Oh, Dear, Chloe Grace Moretz

It took another turn. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 7 years ago

Firefox Flexbox Inspector

Hi all! I’ve been working with the team on a new Flexbox tool inspired by our Grid Inspector. Please view this 6-page visual prototype and let me know what you think! Highlights: A workflow that merges our flexbox and grid highlighters with the regular picker overlay Ability … | Continue reading


@discourse.mozilla.org | 7 years ago

Two Alaskan Municipalities – Malware Infection

Malware has taken down systems in at least two Alaskan municipalities in an attack that officials say is the worst they have ever seen. | Continue reading


@nakedsecurity.sophos.com | 7 years ago

2018 survival playbook from the infamous VIX trader who turned $500K into $12mil

It’s been a good year for Seth Golden. Not 2015-2017 good, but still, the investor, who success story went viral, a year ago claims he’s up about 24% since the beginning of 2018. That’s a far cry from last year, when he nearly doubled his portfolio, and before that, when he repor … | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 7 years ago

Debugging Strategies You Can Use on Every Project

I’ve wanted to write a post about debugging for a while, but it’s a topic that can be really difficult to discuss in a general way. Approaches to debugging vary wildly and span multiple technologies and domains (hardware vs. software vs. other). Bugs can also exist on all types o … | Continue reading


@spin.atomicobject.com | 7 years ago

FAA Asserts Drone Authority

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@avweb.com | 7 years ago

Java the Most Popular Language, Swift Showing Greatest Growth in ProgrammableWeb Directories

Which programming language is the most popular with developers? In the past we’ve looked to our directories to provide some insight into which language is most in demand. The recent growth of our SDK and Sample Source Code directories gives us an opportunity to take a fresh look … | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 7 years ago

Three hackers arrested in connection with millions of dollars in losses

Three people associated with the hacking group FIN7, also known as Carbanak, have been arrested in Europe and are in custody, the United States said in a court filing. | Continue reading


@uk.reuters.com | 7 years ago

Building Slim Docker Images for Rails

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@tinfoilsecurity.com | 7 years ago

Facebook cuts off access to API platform for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive apps

Facebook removed access to its API platform for inactive apps, and is now queueing up active apps to make sure all undergo the new review process. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 7 years ago

Why We’re Sharing 3M Russian Troll Tweets

The tweets are from 2,848 Twitter handles associated with the Internet Research Agency troll farm. | Continue reading


@fivethirtyeight.com | 7 years ago