I recently started using Go’s new inbuilt vendoring tool, Go Modules, and having come from both govendor and dep, this new tool was more of a change than I expected. I’m a fan of quick guides – just tell me what to do so I can start using it now. I don’t need an essay on w … | Continue reading
Technical infrastructure is never complete. System processes can always run with less overhead or be bin-packed onto fewer machines. Data can be retrieved more quickly and stored at a cheaper cost per terabyte. System design can broaden the gap between failure and user impact. Tr … | Continue reading
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Harken back to the glory days of no weird hover states, autoplaying videos, and annoying Who's Watching prompts. | Continue reading
According to police, the body of Scott Krulcik was discovered on the sixth floor of tech giant’s building in Chelsea. | Continue reading
According to police, the body of Scott Krulcik was discovered on the sixth floor of tech giant’s building in Chelsea. | Continue reading
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It's not just Facebook: Android and iOS’s App Stores have incentivized an app economy where free apps make money by selling your personal data and location history to advertisers. | Continue reading
Five days before an Uber self-driving car prototype killed a pedestrian in Arizona last March, a manager in Uber’s autonomous vehicle unit warned the group’s top executives that the software powering the company’s prototype robotaxis was dangerous. He also warned that the human b … | Continue reading
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The Xcode Build Settings Reference in a searchable document, as of Xcode 8.3.2 - XcodeBuildSettingsReference.md | Continue reading
On Nov. 1, 2003, I was involved in a drinking and driving accident. I cost six | Continue reading
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This happened tonight. https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1072314926423777280 https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1072317163359358976 How was it? Everything you would imagine it would be. I will note the tortilla, with the pie inside, was fried in butter and topped with cinnamon and … | Continue reading
As of 2018, almost 90% of the 74,000 developers surveyed by Stack Overflow prefer to use Git for version control. Git dominates all other… | Continue reading
Maleny Vazquez remembers when the police came and took the house across the street. Vazquez has only lived on this block of Waterloo Street… | Continue reading
Maleny Vazquez remembers when the police came and took the house across the street. Vazquez has only lived on this block of Waterloo Street… | Continue reading
Hi there. Name’s Alex. I made the fastest image resize for modern x86 processors. And, I’d like to share my experience hoping I might… | Continue reading
“What is man, that you are mindful of him, human beings that you should care for them?” The question the Psalmist asks God is the same question philosophers have been asking one another for more than three millennia: What does it mean to be human? What makes us different from the … | Continue reading
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Right around the time Bitcoin was invented, I was knee deep in dealing with distributed computing systems as a software engineer at Amazon… | Continue reading
Andy Serkis has revived his Gollum character from the Lord Of the Rings films to poke fun at Prime Minister Theresa May and her Brexit plans. Serkis, 54, channelled Mrs May in a spoof sketch titled “LEAKED: Footage From Inside No 10 Downing Street!” which saw him breathing deeply … | Continue reading
A cautionary tale about big money, long hours and a cultish devotion to tequila shots and team spirit | Continue reading
A follow-up post from our cofounder and CTO, Josh Stella, on using Emacs. He's pleased to report no dire consequences, and his wrists are thanking him. Emacs has been a solace from things that are act | Continue reading
Once you grok Emacs, you realize that it's a thermonuclear toaster that can also serve as the engine for... well, just about anything you want to do with text. When you think about how much your compu | Continue reading
It has nothing to do with Java 9 and everything to do with history. | Continue reading
This trick is a major timesaver for anyone who texts, sends emails, or types in a URL. Meaning everyone. | Continue reading