Serving at USDS: Megan Hopkins

In this blog series, we share the stories of USDSers. Find out where they were before USDS, why they joined, the challenges they face, the… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Joe Lubin Interview: Decision-Making Is ““Big, Fuzzy, Hairy, and Messy”

Manuel Stagars interviewed Joe Lubin, Co-founder of Ethereum and Founder of ConsenSys. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

The subscription economy is changing the mindset of a generation

Deeper dive into the rise of the everything-as-a-service economy and how the subscription mindset is affecting today's generation | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Laws of Distributed Architecture and How to build scalable applications

If you’re interested in Event Sourcing, CQRS, Microservices and distributed architecture with gRPC & Protobuf, then this guide will… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Publishing a free Redux book

This is the story of making money from a FREE book on Redux (http://redux-book.com/) | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Ethereum Suffers from a Gas Crisis, and It’s by Design

It is far from the first time, but gas prices on Ethereum skyrocketed again last week, this time as a result of a silly marketing gimmick… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Angular 5 to 6

The Angular 6 was released. It is time for all of our ngx-* projects to upgrade to angular 6 and live on the edge. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Algolia’s Awesome API

Thank the internet gods for the modern state of APIs. As a designer and frontend prototyper all to often my side-projects would languish… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: Simple and powerful CI for JavaScript projects

I bet you know a lot of CI platforms. Many of them have cool and helpful features. But they almost all are general use CIs. They are aimed… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

How to push serial console output logs to Stackdriver and set alerts in GCP

GCP provides to use serial consoles for all the VMs. Every VM have 4 serial ports. Serial ports are similar to Termal windows which… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Sending Cryptocurrency to Email

Even if the recipient doesn’t have a wallet yet | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

One Mammoth of a Job: An Interview with Eugen Rochko of Mastodon

Mastodon’s creator sheds light on maintaining one of the most popular projects in the fediverse | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Three cool things that are happening in technology

I’m really negative about the technology industry at the moment. There’s so much bad going on whether it be the ongoing obsession with… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

The End of Innovation on the Internet

As lawmakers begin to regulate online companies, what does this mean for innovation and creativity on the Internet? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Over 800 Cryptos are dead

In the recent carnage of cryptocurrencies, where the most popular token bitcoin has shed around 70%, around 800 cryptocurrencies are now… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: 3D printed blockchain powered lightshow and tutorial

Editors note: This article is in-progress, please report any issues/inconsistencies or reach out for collaboration to hi@kaustav.me. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Sustainable Open Source Ecosystem with IssueHunt

Sustainability of open-source has been talked over and over again. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Linux Kernel bug hunting

The story starts with a message on our workplace chat: | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

How to Preprocess Character Level Text with Keras

You can find the notebook here | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Why Tokenizer in Keras reserve word_index 0

You can find my answer here too. Notebook is here. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

AWS AppSync with Lambda Data Sources

The power of GraphQL lies in its flexibility. That is especially the case regarding resolvers, where any local or remote data can be used… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Introduction to Portable Component Oriented Styles (PCOS) with Sass

Portable Component Oriented Styles (PCOS) is a methodology to structure Sass stylesheets for large-scale projects. The primary goals of… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle for “Unicorn” Employees

As a product-obsessed entrepreneur and investor, I rarely focus on financing mechanics in the start-up world. It tends to be a binary… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Marketing is dead; long live Product

Why leading technology companies are rethinking marketing from scratch and you should too. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Metrics and Measurement: Some Lessons for DevOps from ITSM

Measurement is a big deal in agile and DevOps, and metrics are a common discussion topic on social media and conferences. Measurement is… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

All the things I hate about Python

Python is viewed as a ubiquitous programming language; however, its design limits its potential as a reliable and high performance systems… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

2 min read about smart contracts

As a new disruptive pattern for information storage and management, blockchain is believed to bring new opportunities to businesses. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

There’s no such thing as motivation

But you can still crush that to-do list. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Small JavaScript modules: it's not quite that simple

There’s a post currently doing the rounds that articulates the ‘small modules’ philosophy. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Asp.net core integeration testing

Microsoft has introduced a new library for integration testing Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing as a part of the asp.net core 2. In the… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

FireBase: Things you must know to avoid wasting time as a Beginner

Firebase is like a free food for our hungry node projects. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Systemd-timers are awesome

I got back to use rtorrent as my main Torrent client. rtorrent is lightweight and fast, also extremely powerful and customizable. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Why we might be alone in the universe

Multiverses explain how we might actually be alone after all | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

A web application completely in Rust

My latest software architectural experiment is to write a complete real-world web application in Rust with as less as boilerplate as… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves

How Pepsi started a marketing revolution. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

How YouTube Recommends Videos

This is the first paper in a “Seminal Papers in ML” series by MIT Machine Intelligence Community (MIC). MIT MIC aims to educate the… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Q&A with Microsoft Chief Speech Scientist Xuedong Huang

A performance boost of less than one percent may not seem like much to most people, but for Microsoft Global Technical Fellow and Chief… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

The Gloves We’ll Wear on Mars

Living on Mars — which Elon Musk predicts we’ll do in some form by 2024 — will no doubt pose hardships and challenges. And there’s going to be plenty of manual labor. It’s prohibitively expensive to… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Visualizing Professional StarCraft with R

It’s been almost a decade since I started data mining professional replays for StarCraft: Brood War. After recently trying out new… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Meaningful Exits for Founders

For an industry that doesn’t do it for the money, we sure talk about money an awful lot in the world of startups. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Prismo is a decentralized link-sharing app powered by ActivityPub

Soon, the fediverse might have their own decentralized competitor to Reddit and Hacker News | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Immutable Infrastructure it is Not

Engineering and language are funny, because naming is hard. I’m going to pick on “Immutable Infrastructure” a bit. There is a huge… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Calculator Functions and Mocha Testing

Practice Using the Module Pattern and Test Via Mocha | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Graph Data Structure Interview Questions and Practice Problems

A Graph is an ordered pair G = (V, E) comprising a set V of vertices or nodes and a collection of pairs of vertices from V called edges of… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster (2017)

The JSF is a terrible fighter, bomber and attacker — and unfit for aircraft carriers | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: Forevermore – commit your marriage vows to the blockchain

Getting married across 2 continents, 3 countries, and 16,000 nodes | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

How to Be Great When You’re Not Born Special

The 3 Truths You Need To Hear | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Your pictures are about to come alive

You can do so much with your images than just sharing and storing into oblivion. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago