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zsync is a file transfer program. It allows you to download a file from a remote server, where you have a copy of an older version of the file on your computer already. zsync downloads only the new parts of the file. It uses the same algorithm as rsync.…
17 October 2017Hacker News
Raspberry Pi 3 devices tend to overheat when they run prolonged heavy loads. When the processor’s internal temperature approaches 85 degrees Celsius, it protects itself by downclocking or shutting down completely. This can adversely affect performance of…
17 October 2017Hacker News
ApsaraCache is based on the Redis official release 4.0 and has many features and performance enhancements. ApsaraCache has proven to be very stable and efficient in production environment. There are many features in ApsaraCache, the following two are…
17 October 2017Hacker News
It is a simple and easy to use keylogger for macOS. It is not meant to be malicious. There are only few keyloggers available for Mac and none of them are in Swift. Another problem is with Apple high-level APIs. I don't know the reason but Apple suddenly…
17 October 2017Hacker News
Terms like “Progressive Web Apps” (PWAs) are useful to help spread concepts, but they come with a risk of misuse and misunderstanding. As a fairly new and evolving concept, PWAs may be defined and understood differently by different people. In this post,…
17 October 2017Hacker News
Techniques, strategies and recipes for building a modern web app with multiple teams using different JavaScript frameworks. The term Micro Frontends first came up in ThoughtWorks Technology Radar at the end of 2016. It extends the concepts of micro…
15 October 2017Hacker News
15 October 2017Hacker News
Recently I read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari. The basic thesis of the book is that humans require ‘collective fictions’ so that we can collaborate in larger numbers than the 150 or so our brains are big enough to cope with by…
15 October 2017Hacker News
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every other component of a review. Communicating issues you discover in a constructive and professional…
15 October 2017Hacker News
Someone recently tweeted about the fantastic news that MySQL fixed a bug. Now in my world, bugs get fixed quickly and well. Bugs happen and they need to be fixed. It never occurred to me that we should ever tweet or blog about the fixing of a bug. I guess…
15 October 2017