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Note: This project is not being developed further at the moment. I hope to return to it soon. SamsaraJS is a library for building continuous user interfaces. A continuous UI is one where many visual elements are animating in coordinated ways. For example,…
4 February 2016Hacker News
Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount. It is brand new. And very different. You can now write data in a very special place: Every file you write in there is signed. There's no manual signing…
4 February 2016Hacker News
Every language has its commonly used libraries / gems / packages to interact with databases. Ruby has ActiveRecord and Elixir has Ecto. They provide a lot of functionality which are very useful but when it comes to quickly and easily querying tabular data…
4 February 2016Hacker News
Unfortunately we're not using this product internally at present and hence users should assume it's unmaintained. There may be known security issues or just general bit-rot. We hope the code may remain useful to some but we cannot offer any support at this…
4 February 2016MySQL Performance Blog
PCI Compliance (section 8.2.4) requires users to change password every 90 days. Until MySQL 5.6.6 there wasn’t a built-in way to comply with this requirement. Since MySQL version 5.6.6 there’s a password_expired feature which allows ...
4 February 2016Hacker News
The annual European gathering of open source enthusiasts took place in Brussels this weekend. For the fourth time, I had the chance to take part in these two days of lectures and conversations with fellow developers from around the world about freedom,…
3 February 2016Hacker News
New free MOOC course covering all of this material in much more depth, as well as much more including combined variational autoencoders + generative adversarial networks, visualizing gradients, deep dream, style net, and recurrent networks:…
3 February 2016Hacker News
The AWS Cloud Design Patterns (CDP) are a collection of solutions and design ideas for using AWS cloud technology to solve common systems design problems. To create the CDPs, we reviewed many designs created by various cloud architects, categorized them by…
3 February 2016MySQL Performance Blog
MySQL 5.7 has been released, and there are some exciting new features now available that I’m going to discuss in this blog — specifically around geographic information system (GIS). I’ve used GIS features in MySQL ...
3 February 2016Engadget
Smart mirrors are everywhere in tech companies' visions of future homes, but they never seem to show up in real homes -- at best, you might find them in fitting rooms. That just wasn't good enough for Google's Max Braun, though. He recently built h...
3 February 2016