Hacker News
In a previous post, I discussed the history of open source, and ended with this claim: Today’s developers have never learned about this history, or don’t care about it, or actively think it’s irrelevant. … For the same reasons that “open source” came up…
2 April 2019Hacker News
This is about digital archeology. I hope people interested in the legacy of early online services will find it useful. And I hope other digital archeologists more knowledgable than me will find it and provide additional information. Maybe someone even…
2 April 2019Hacker News
Living and working in the big apple comes with big rent. I, along with most other city-dwellers who live inside a crammed closet we call an apartment, look to cut costs anywhere we can. It’s no secret one way to curtail expenses, at least we’re told, is…
2 April 2019InfoQ - Culture & Methods
To ensure the quality of the products and services, Intermedia uses a common test & pre-production environment for all distributed teams. Lilia Gorbachik, product manager at Intermedia, mentioned at European Women in Tech that having a mature testing…
2 April 2019inessential.com
In an in-progress build of NetNewsWire, I turned off embedding the Swift libraries — which brings the app size down from 18.4MB to 6.9MB. Which is a huge saving, and I’m so glad we can do this now. It reminds me of a thing I’ve been thinking about. I don’t…
2 April 2019apple – Ars Technica
It's a small iPad Air on the outside and an upgraded iPad mini 4 on the inside.
2 April 2019Percona Database Performance Blog
Distributed systems are hard – I just want to echo that. In MySQL, we have quite a number of options to run highly available systems. However, real fault tolerant systems are difficult to achieve. Take for example a common use case of multi-DC replication…
2 April 2019Hacker News
At Spotify we have performed studies that show the efficacy of using native backed solutions for interfacing to backends, especially when it came to the battery life of certain devices. In order to carry this forward in the cross-platform C++ world, we…
1 April 2019Engadget
Facebook has signaled some openness to regulations, but it's making things clearer this weekend. Mark Zuckerberg has posted an editorial floating four ideas for regulating the internet, including approaches that could apply worldwide. To begin with...
31 March 2019Engadget
Whether or not Apple Music is coming to Google Home, there are signs you might get to use it with some Google-powered devices. The 9to5Google team has found multiple lines of code in Apple Music's Android app that reference Chromecast support, inclu...
31 March 2019