Feb 2, 2018
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Nothing special, but one post is boring.
Jan 23, 2018
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Dev How to build your own Android ROMs How to turn your side project into an open source project How to speed up Python application startup time Ops 10 open-source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops Teams. If you’re running workloads in Kubernetes, your SRE and Ops teams need the right kind of tooling to ensure the high-reliability of the Kubernetes cluster and workloads running in it.…
Jan 18, 2018
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Dev Examining Python’s often-overlooked features How to generate GitHub Pages with Hexo, Hugo and Middleman static site generators. Ops hook.io provides an easy way to create, host, and share microservices. The most basic use case for hook.io is quick and free webhook hosting. now – Realtime global deployments. Terraform gotchas and how to work around them Google Services Automation Misc 10 things to increase your productivity in bash System Bus Radio This program transmits radio on computers / phones without radio transmitting hardware.…
Jan 12, 2018
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Dev Meltdown and Spectre. Bugs in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data: Meltdown Spectre WHY RASPBERRY PI ISN’T VULNERABLE TO SPECTRE OR MELTDOWN Meltdown Proof-of-Concept Interactive Workflows for C++ with Jupyter. How developers will work in 2018 Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2018 How to integrate Go templates with your application How a RESTful API server reacts to requests Learn how to properly design RESTful APIs communication with clients, accounting for request structure, authentication, and caching.…
Jan 5, 2018
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Dev Gitmask – anonymously submit pull requests on GitHub. A Look at Ten New Database Systems Released in 2017 Nerd fonts Matching terminal and vim colors automatically! Ops sed – An Introduction and Tutorila by Bruce Barnett. Gathering Metrics from Your Infrastructure and Applications. Linux System Administrator/DevOps Interview Questions Misc A Brief Totally Accurate History Of Programming Languages XPS 13 Developer Edition — the 7th gen is here!…
Dec 21, 2017
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Dev Must have extensions for VS Code (according to me) Top 5 Programming Fonts Ops SSH cheatsheet Misc Google Maps' Moat – detailed (omg so detailed) breakdown of how Google’s lead in map data is compounding as they extract more and more value from the data. Cypress – Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Quantum Game – open source game play with photons, superposition, and entanglement.…
Dec 12, 2017
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Editors Reddit: Which editor do you use when writing Go DB Comparing MongoDB & MySQL: compares the schema, querying language, relationships, performance/speed, and security of two dominant databases. Dev JavaScript is almost pythonic: a side by side comparison of JavaScript and Python – multi-line strings, expression interpolations, arrow functions, and more. Regex was taking 5 days to run. So I built a tool that did it in 15 minutes: a story of building for necessity.…
Dec 9, 2017
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General Examining open source leadership A year into an open source leadership position at the UK GDS, Anna Shipman shares the successes and winning strategy that has enabled community growth and made open source in government self-sustaining.
Editors Barliman – Barliman is a prototype “smart editor” that performs real-time program synthesis to try to make the programmer’s life a little easier. Barliman has several unusual features: given a set of tests for some function foo, Barliman tries to “guess” how to fill in a partially specified definition of foo to make all of the tests pass; given a set of tests for some function foo, Barliman tries to prove that a partially specified definition of foo is inconsistent with one or more of the tests; given a fully or mostly specified definition of some function foo, Barliman will attempt to prove that a partially specified test is consistent with, or inconsistent with, the definition of foo.…
Dec 2, 2017
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Dev Object Models – a (very) brief run through the inner workings of objects in four very dynamic languages. Readable and informative.
The controller pattern is awful (and other OO heresy)
Italic fonts in iTerm2, tmux, and vim
Programming Fonts
Ops How to manage Linux containers with Ansible Container
Adopting Kubernetes step by step.…
Nov 30, 2017
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Security WTF Apple?
Source
A serious bug in macOS High Sierra lets anyone log into an admin account using the username “root” with no password. This works when attempting to access an administrator’s account on an unlocked Mac, and it also provides access at the login screen of a locked Mac.
To replicate, follow these steps from any kind of Mac account, admin or guest:
Open System Preferences.…