The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem

Hacker News

This post describes the basic design of the ZeroTier rules engine by way of the reasoning process that led to it. As of the time of this writing (late August, 2016), a working but not quite production ready implementation is taking shape in the "dev"…

19 February 2016

Myth Busting: MongoDB Scalability (it scales!)

MySQL Performance Blog

Recently I was talking with Tim Sharp, one of my colleagues from our Technical Account Manager team about MongoDB’s scalability. While doing some quick training with some of the Percona team, Tim brought something to ...

19 February 2016

How to Distribute Binaries for OS X Using Homebrew

Hacker News

git diff is near and dear to my heart, so when a post on better diffs showed up on Hacker News last week, it immediately caught my attention. It's given me a few ideas on how to improve delta, particularly its command-line output. But then in the comments…

15 February 2016

Diary of a network outage

Hacker News

From around 5am on the morning of Sunday 7 February (6pm 6 Feb UTC, 1pm 6 Feb US East), FastMail was unavailable for almost two hours. In this post we'll take a look at what happened, why it happened and what we're doing to restore our reputation as one of…

13 February 2016

Spirit.js – easily animate objects on the web

Hacker News

Spirit - The animation tool for the webLaunch Spirit Studio and connect it with your web page Animating has never been this easy. You'll have a sophisticated timeline editor at your disposal. Spirit Studio is currently available as a desktop app for Mac. …

12 February 2016

Switching from Mail to Airmail on iOS: 7 tips to get started

Macworld

Those looking to ditch Apple’s stock Mail app for iOS already have plenty of options—from Google’s Gmail and Inbox to Microsoft’s Outlook for iOS—but now, there’s a new player on the field: Airmail, a sleek iPhone version of an already popular Mac mail…

12 February 2016