Patterns of Distributed Systems.
Use logical timestamps as a version for a value to allow ordering of values across servers.
Vanessa Daou.
The Vernacular Effect: anonymous snapshots and the unlearning of everything.
Somehow relevant: What Happened to Peter Daou?
The Internet of Landlords Makes Renters of Us All.
There’s no security to be found in hoping that we aren’t evicted by the platforms that have unaccountable power over us. By e-commerce giants kicking sellers out of the store, by gig companies deactivating workers’ accounts, by manufacturers bricking our devices. This techno-economic infrastructure has become too critical to allow it to be controlled by the grace of digital landlords. We have to make platforms meet the needs of the public, not the other way around. Otherwise their cut of the economy will only grow larger and larger until there’s nothing left to extract.
Putin’s Hybrid War on Truth in Ukraine is a Threat to Us All.
The way to war is a slow one. First the flight, then the ride to the station, then the rickety overnight train in the carriage with a reedy mattress and the offering of bread and vodka. Then a drive in a Lada over pock-holed streets under a thin dawn, past fields of black earth, through checkpoints and over broken bridges. Until a place so nondescript is reached you wouldn’t realise the line of trees in the distance cover trenches that separate Ukraine from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic. So, you reach for your phone, raise your arm and take a picture of this – the frontline of war.
What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
A day in the life of a professional software engineer.
The QA team rejected the sort implementation I did last week. I’d written a basic Bubble Sort, and QA wanted to beat O(n2) for the average case. No problem, I switched to a Merge Sort and was done by lunchtime.
How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line.
Avoid leaking the secret in the command string eg. with
"$(< secret_file.txt)"
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HASH – Complex Systems Simulation.
Build simulations in minutes not days. HASH is an open-source platform backed and built by the founders of Kaggle, Stack Overflow, Trello and Glitch.
You can’t spot a liar just by looking, but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.
Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible".
Sometimes you see something early on when debugging that looks VERY suspicious and spend a long time investigating it, but then it turns out to be totally unrelated to the bug. This is pretty normal and it often doesn’t mean you did anything wrong (you can’t take the perfect most efficient path to understanding the bug every time!). But it can be really demoralizing.