From Node.js to Go
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29 January 2015
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by Aldo ArmientoHow to design your own great-looking business cards
Macworld
Few design projects are as nerve-wracking—and important—as designing your own business card. Just like the clothes you wear, your business card tells the recipient if you’re professional, artistic, or a big ol’ ball of cheese. Aside from the aesthetic…
29 January 20151Password's update highlights the difference between two-step and two-factor verification
Macworld
An update to 1Password brings time-based one-time passwords (TOTP for short) to its iOS app. A one-time password is typically used as a second element in two-factor authentication (2FA), a subject I’ve written about many times in this column. But, as noted…
29 January 2015Demystifying SEO with experiments
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28 January 2015How companies test their mobile apps
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28 January 2015Visualizing AWS Storage with Real-Time Latency Spectrograms
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How 6 of the world’s largest companies use Kub + Sysdig. Having worked for several years in the wireless networking space, I always found spectrum analyzers like this one extremely useful. I always found such a representation of the wireless spectrum not…
27 January 2015Show HN: Get your local and public IP addresses in JavaScript
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Firefox and Chrome have implemented WebRTC that allow requests to STUN servers be made that will return the local and public IP addresses for the user. These request results are available to javascript, so you can now obtain a users local and public IP…
26 January 2015RegViz: A Web-Based Tool for Visual Debugging of Regular Expressions
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RegViz is a tool for debugging JavaScript regular expressions in a visual way. The goal of the project is to create a system to make regular expressions more readable. Advanced highlighting helps you to understand the…
25 January 2015The Secrets of Street Names and Home Values
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IN “Romeo and Juliet,” the young Miss Capulet poses one of literature’s most famous questions: “What’s in a name?” When it comes to a street name, the answer is: a lot. Street names tell stories. They tell us if a neighborhood is expensive or affordable,…
25 January 2015Using Percona Cloud Tools to solve real-world MySQL problems
MySQL Performance Blog
For months when speaking with customers I have been positioning Percona Cloud Tools (PCT) as a valuable tool for the DBA/Developer/SysAdmin but only recently have I truly been able to harness the data and make a technical recommendation to a customer that…
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