Using nothing but your computer, some software, and a $20 radio dongle you can receive transmissions from NOAA weather satellites in the… | Continue reading
These Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs added to our directory in 2018 in the Financial sector include selections from our Banking, Payments, Currency, Stocks, Insurance, Cryptocurrency, and Blockchain categories. FinTech APIs are what peaked our editors and readers inte … | Continue reading
We propose a radical change in design from experts designing for people to people designing for themselves, leveraging the creativity of communities to solve their own problems. People in communities best understand their problems and the impediments and affordances that impede a … | Continue reading
Monero/Aeon Webminer for After Dark | Continue reading
Will Trump be impeached? Will Bitcoin hit $10k? Will Detective Pikachu be any good!? | Continue reading
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A response to The Conversations that Cryptocurrency Killed by Sonya Mann | Continue reading
If you ever added a type, kind or a mode field to a Django model, you probably had to deal with polymorphism at some level. With the great people over at RealPython, I wrote about 5 ways to model polymorphism in Django. Read "Modeling Polymorphism in Django With Python" on RealPy … | Continue reading
The ‘right to be forgotten’ addresses a real problem, but does so by making that problem worse. The problem: people are willing to use… | Continue reading
For me, the idea of cyberpunk is tied tightly to the assumptions and aesthetics of the early ’80s. And, unlike today, the early ’80s saw… | Continue reading
There is pain, and then there is suffering. The division between the two can get a bit fuzzy, but on one end we have things like “my fish just died” or “that dog just bit me”… | Continue reading
Automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or… | Continue reading
The Nazis did not invent polylogism. They only developed their own brand of it. | Continue reading
In an episode of "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj," the host criticizes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Yemen war. | Continue reading
We may remember 2018 as the year when technology’s dystopian potential became clear, from Facebook’s role enabling the harvesting of our personal data for election interference to a see… | Continue reading
His bill would prohibit teachers from introducing any “controversial issue” unrelated to the class subject at hand. | Continue reading
Agile: 1. an attribute of any team, no matter how dysfunctional; 2. [see SCRUM] | Continue reading
Richard Gabriel’s essay ‘Worse is Better’ is used to excuse a lot of bullshit, in ways that Gabriel would not endorse (and in ways that… | Continue reading
I think as we grow to take more advantage of this, we’ll see some new tendencies. | Continue reading
There is no text that is not parallel. That is to say, there is no text that does not admit context, depend upon context, or become… | Continue reading
A common defense of trendism is that unpopular content does not necessarily have more information than average — some things are unpopular… | Continue reading
Converging evidence shows a major shift toward independence around age four. | Continue reading
Communication is a useful lens for thinking about programming, because it clarifies certain things about good style left unaddressed by… | Continue reading
Object eversion was an idea we* invented for ZigZag (a generalization of tabular databases from 2 to n dimensions) but it occurs to me… | Continue reading
This one simple thing that I now do everyday completely changed my relationship with my kids... | Continue reading
The influence on juries of crime dramas such as CSI is causing a large number of innocent people to be convicted, an expert on the use of forensic evidence has said. Ruth Morgan, of the Jill Dando... | Continue reading
One-day course: Learn how to get your first podcast off the ground with this practical workshop | Continue reading
Context matters. Sometimes we need to get things done, sometimes we need to build things to last. | Continue reading
FormAPI makes it easy for programmers to generate PDFs. | Continue reading
Let's start this year with some stats from the last one, 2018. Probably 99% of the articles on this blog are Kubernetes related. I wrote 28 articles in 2018 which is good, but my goal was 50 actually. I think that Kubernetes adoption in 2019 will grow, at least stats | Continue reading
Yesterday, on Twitter, I asked: | Continue reading
Far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is a threat to Brazilian democracy — and a model for authoritarianism that leaders around the world will follow. | Continue reading
The group promises to "provide answers about 9/11 conspiracies." | Continue reading
The tree of life just got another major branch. Researchers recently found a certain rare and mysterious microbe called a hemimastigote in a clump of Nova Scotian soil. Their subsequent analysis of... | Continue reading
As democracies stumble and autocracies rise, former monarchs and hopeful claimants clamor for their jobs back. Maybe it’s a good idea. | Continue reading
How a design mindset can and should lead the most important meeting typically found in agile frameworks | Continue reading
Just like last year, I kept track of almost everything I read, watched, listened to, and experienced in my media diet posts. In | Continue reading