All the open source code in GitHub is now available in BigQuery. Go ahead, analyze it all. In this post you’ll find the related resources I know of so far: Update: I know I said all — but it’s not all. I’m updating the answers to these and other questions…
Steven Seiden wrote in with a situation he’s having with his Mac: > My Mac hangs at a black screen for almost 45 seconds after producing the startup chime before showing the Apple logo. It’s really annoying! Is there any way to fix this? I’ve seen this…
So you’ve pwned an AWS account — congratulations — now what? You’re eager to get to the data theft, amirite? Not so fast whipper snapper, have you disrupted logging? Do you know what you have? Sweet! Time to get settled in. Maintaining persistence in AWS…
In this episode we bring you a Raspberry Pi Zero build. This elusive single-board computer was kindly donated by an element14 Community member. Of course, Ben then did what comes naturally to him: He turned it into a portable computer. The part...
Our Fuzzy Otto project is all about improving the autocomplete functionality of our search field, by providing suggestions for mistyped keyphrases. The autocomplete functionality of Skroutz’s main search field is probably the first interaction a user…
Harvesters watch log files for changes, send new log messages to the server, which broadcasts to web clients. Log messages are tagged with stream, node, and log level information based on user configuration. Log.io has no persistence layer. Harvesters are…
When you build a Hackintosh (or any custom PC) you need to actually build the machine, which means getting a ton of boxes delivered to your door from Amazon, taking every one out of the package, and then assembling the computer from scratch. Before this…
Get up and running with Chronix in 3 minutes with our quickstart guide: You need Java 8 installed on your system. That's it :-) The Chronix showcase consists of two parts. Pick the latest releases of the Chronix Server (download) and…
HTTPS provides the little green padlock in the top left-hand corner of your browser. HTTPS does a few good things: Gives users confidence the communication between the browser and the web server is secure. We provide HTTPS Web Hosting for all of the…
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Lately I have had the need to do real time video capture from HDMI devices as of late for a project, and while looking around the internet found that all of the capture cards that are aimed at gamers (windows / OSX support only) or full blown production…
Back in the day when the British had a penchant for conquering the world, they ran into a little problem on the subcontinent; cobras. Turns out there were a hell of a lot of the buggers wandering around India and it also turned out that they were rather…
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, object-oriented programming revolutionized software development, popularizing the approach of building of applications as collections of modular components. Today we are seeing a similar revolution in distributed system…
This blog post explains how computers running the Linux kernel receive packets, as well as how to monitor and tune each component of the networking stack as packets flow from the network toward userland programs. UPDATE We’ve released the counterpart to…
The problem with JSON is that to produce it you need to build a memory structure of everything you want to dump out, and to parse it you have to build everything in one go back into memory. This is fine for small JSON blobs, but isn't really ideal when the…
Two months ago I wrote about some of the struggles I faced looking for a job in tech as a coding bootcamp graduate. I was amazed by some of the responses. Some found it reassuring and inspiring. Others… well, let’s just say that some others were less than…
Please join Percona, Technical Account Manager, Michael Patrick on Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 10 AM PDT (UTC-7) as he presents “Choosing a MySQL High Availability Solution Today.” High availability (HA) is one of the solutions to improve performance, avoid…
[Editor – This post has been updated to reflect changes to browser support for NPN and to OS support for ALPN since the original publication in June 2016 as “Supporting HTTP/2 for Google Chrome Users”. The information is current as of September 2017.] …
In essence it's a signed piece of data in JSON format. Because it's signed the recipient can verify its authenticity. Because it's JSON it weights very little. If you are after the formal definition, it's in the RFC 7519. This article was featured on…
This page is part of the documentation for the Machine Learning Database. It is a static snapshot of a Notebook which you can play with interactively by trying MLDB online now. It's free and takes 30 seconds to get going. This tutorial shows how we can…
Imagine you have been invited to join one of two groups. Team A is composed of people who are all exceptionally smart and successful. When you watch a video of this group working, you see professionals who wait until a topic arises in which they are…
This is a more technical post by our lead programmer, James Halliday, about the core technology that powers OpenStreetMap Without Servers osm-p2p is a decentralized peer-to-peer database for storing and editing OpenStreetMap nodes, ways, and relations. It…
Apple has announced its 2016 Apple Design Awards for this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference. The awards honor the most innovative macOS and iOS apps as well as the best and most creative uses of Apple's products — at least as determined by Apple.
I recently joined a startup as their CTO and I'm hating it. They've been around a few years and have product market fit and now need technical leadership to grow the team and product. It's my first senior management position, having been heavily code…
This is a binding for libquiet to lwip. This binding can be used to create TCP and UDP connections over an audio channel. This channel may be speaker-to-mic ("over the air") or through a wired connection. This binding provides an abstract version which…
ZFS is a rethinking of the storage stack, combining traditional file systems as well as volume managers into one cohesive tool. ZFS has some specific terminology that sets it apart from more traditional storage systems, however it has a great set of…
It looks like there is an official API for chat bots called the Messenger Platform. But it appears that you need to create a new Facebook page for your bot but I need it to look like the messages come from me. I can't use this. If all you have is a…
npm install -g mert mert init [type] # Create new .mertrc file. Options: global or local mert start [name] # Start project by name or by specifying file path (defaults to .mertrc in cwd) mert is a simple command line tool for managing your windows,…
AnyPixel.js is an open-source software and hardware library that makes it possible to use the web to create big, unusual, interactive displays out of all kinds of things. Anyone can fork the code and the schematics to create their own display at any scale.…
I’m currently working on the Vaani project at Mozilla, and part of my work on that allows me to do some exploration around the topic of speech recognition and speech assistants. After looking at some of the commercial offerings available, I thought that if…
In reality, logging is important. When you transfer money, there are transfer records. When an airplane is flying, black box (flight data recorder) is recording everything. If something goes wrong, people can read the log and has a chance to figure out…
I recently gave a talk at RevolutionConf about writing a motion detecting web app with JavaScript. This is basically that talk, but in blog form. Live demos and all the source code are available at the end of this article. I wanted to see what my pets do…
This is a collection of open source apps built with React. JS library. In this observation, we compared nearly 1,000 popular React projects to pick the top 22. (React Native: 11, React: 11) To evaluate the quality, Mybridge AI considers a variety of…
A Raspberry Pi distribution to display one webpage in full screen. It includes Chromium out of the box and the scripts necessary to load it at boot. This repository contains the source script to generate the distribution out of an existing Raspbian distro…
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." This is the source for the book 500 Lines or Less, the fourth in the Architecture of Open Source Applications series. As with other books in the series, all written material will be covered by the Creative…
Some people change their SSH port on their servers so that it is slightly harder to find for bots or other nasties, and while that is generally viewed as an action of security through obscurity it does work very well at killing a lot of the automated…
Responsive web app that checks when certificates will expire. Serves HTML & JSON so you can consume the service elsewhere. Make sure you have Node.js and the Heroku Toolbelt installed. $ bin/setup $ foreman s …
I am a senior SRE and software engineer @ Globality. Find me on Twitter as @KensoDev. We @ Gogobot use Nginx for basically every user facing web service. Whether it’s our main web-app or a microservice. Even for Docker, we use nginx and not the default…
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These pages show 8 different sorting algorithms on 4 different initial conditions. These visualizations are intended to: * Show that there is no best sorting algorithm. * Show the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm. * Show that worse-case…
pxl is a little hack to display images in the terminal. You will need to have Go installed and configured in your path. Your terminal must have xterm-256color mode enabled. You may want to squint your eyes or take a few steps backwards when looking at…
API(Application Program Interface) is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. Most of the websites provide API so that developers can make application on top of it.…
home page (more sweet code) || follow my twitter || blog || email me || samy kamkar pwnat, pronounced "poe-nat", is a tool that allows any number of clients behind NATs to communicate with a server behind a separate NAT with *no* port forwarding *no*…
A Git Workflow is a recipe or recommendation for how to use Git to accomplish work in a consistent and productive manner. Git workflows encourage users to leverage Git effectively and consistently. Git offers a lot of flexibility in how users manage…
If you've been reading this blog for a while (or have been reading my rants on Twitter), you'll probably know this was coming already. If you haven't, here's the short version. The Chromium project (whose end result is the Chrome Browser) has switched the…
Home About Posts Top 10 Coding standards are a set of guidelines, best practices, programming styles and conventions that developers adhere to when writing source code for a project. All big software companies have them. Here are few guidelines from…
You can represent your CBFS Storage container as a virtual disk device, similar to the mounted network disks. This virtual disk can be accessed by any application much like a regular disk. Limit access to your data to only trusted applications, thus…
A dashboard written in JavaScript & HTML to check the remaining time before a TLS certificate expires. A combination of a Node module and an HTML/CSS/JS webpage to display the info. Copy node_app/example_config.js to node_app/config.js. You won't need to…
Free & Open Sourced Logos At Fairpixels, we had unused logo designs piling up on our hard drives and decided to make them available to the world, for free. The logos below can be downloaded unlimited times and used by anyone. For personal & commercial…
The HTTP Archive crawls the world’s top URLs twice each month and records detailed information like the number of HTTP requests, the most popular image formats, and the use of gzip compression. In addition to aggregate stats, the HTTP Archive has the same…
Inference of Regular Expressions for Text Extraction from Examples A large class of entity extraction tasks from text that is either semistructured or fully unstructured may be addressed by regular expressions, because in many practical cases the relevant…
I read a story this week about the Uber App knowing when your phone is in power saving mode. Uber found people more likely to pay higher rates when their phone is about to die. The company claims they do not use the data to set prices but it got me…
Virtual machines storage performance is a hot topic – after all, one of the main problem when virtualizing many OS instances is to correctly size the I/O subsystem, both in term of space and speed. Of course performance is not the only thing to consider:…
This repository is an attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?" Except instead of the usual story, we're going to try to answer this question in as much…
The single biggest obstacle of understanding a piece of code is a lot of variables. Variables introduce state, which in turn increase complexity exponentially. Every single bit of variable information makes reasoning and understanding the code harder. A…
It started with a Facebook post from my brother-in-law: “Okay Facebook, I need your help. How do you deal with A$$hole’s that live on your street and constantly speed (75 in a 25) up and down the road? I’ve called the sheriff and they are under manned.…
Push is currently looking for co-maintainers of the repo. The guy who originally made this library, Tyler Nickerson, while still visiting this repo from time to time, is busy trying to work on his company Linguistic right now. As a result, he may not have…
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The Instagram app has been begging for a redesign for quite some time, and today the photoblogging app showed up with an update featuring a new app icon and a UI makeover. The following video provides a fun (but probably quite fictional) look at the…
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a Scaleable A/B testing backend in ~100 lines of code (and for free*) * Highly scalable due to the nature of AWS Lambda * Easy deployment using gimel deploy. No need to twiddle with AWS. click here for more info Gimel (גִּימֵל) is the 3rd letter of the…
At WWDC 2015 we announced the transition to IPv6-only network services in iOS 9. Starting June 1, 2016 all apps submitted to the App Store must support IPv6-only networking. Most apps will not require any changes because IPv6 is already supported by…
August Home is now shipping the second generation smart lock, featuring HomeKit support. Theenabled is available immediately at amazon.com and from Best Buy stores for $229.
Movidius chips have been showing up in quite a few products recently. It's the company that helps DJI's latest drone avoid obstacles, and FLIR's new thermal camera automatically spot people trapped in a fire, all through deep learning via neural netw...
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2015 was a very important year for Linux, both in the enterprise as well as in the consumer space. As a Linux user since 2005, I can see that the operating system has come a long way in the past 10 years. And, 2016 is going to be even more exciting. In…
we'll be able to take great advantage of RLE, and will end up with a total of 9 runs. This permutation is the optimal solution for the given input, and it produces better results than lexicographical sort by any combination of columns. Unfortunately,…
In this blog post, we’ll discuss upgrading MySQL with Orchestrator. I recently had a client, Life360, that wanted to upgrade from Percona Server 5.5 to Percona Server 5.6, and implement GTID in their high transaction environment. ...
I was always amazed when I read articles published by some hackers related to GSM technology. However, playing with GSM technologies was not cheap until the arrival of Software Defined Radios (SDRs), besides not being something easy to be implemented. …
git-remote-dropbox is now on PyPI! Get it with pip install git-remote-dropbox. As far as I know, git-remote-dropbox is the only safe way to host a Git repository on Dropbox. Read about why here. Once it’s installed, using Dropbox as a Git server is as…
TL;DR: This blog post is mainly about how technical documentation should ideally be structured: as a graph (not to be confused with a chart). As a software developer and author I have had the chance (and also the obligation) to write about software from…
This security camera from Wansview currently averages 4 out of 5 stars from 180 reviewers on Amazon (read reviews). It lists for $199.99, but with the current 55% discount you save $110 and can buy it for just $89.99. The unit has clarity up to 1920x1080,…
Starting today at 17:09 UTC our systems detected a large scale routing incident affecting hundreds of Autonomous systems. Many BGPmon users have received an email informing them of this change. Our initial investigation shows that the scope of this…
I’ve been involved with full-stack development for a while now, especially stacks involving single page apps. When choosing to go with a single page webapp the backend concerns change. While any backend will do the job (think ruby, python, java, etc.) more…
In this post I’d like to test limits of python aiohttp and check its performance in terms of requests per minute. Everyone knows that asynchronous code performs better when applied to network operations, but it’s still interesting to check this…
QRXfer is one of those "I had to give it a try" ideas. The basic idea is that it is possible to play back QR code encoded data to a receiver that may be able to reconstruct the data and reproduce the file that was originally sent. Think about an…
A new word, every day. Get Daily Dictionary for iPhone. The Apple TV features Aerial screensavers, stunning slow-mo shots of various landmarks around the world. In tvOS 12, the aerials were expanded to include sweeping shots from the International Space…
Google called it Borg, and for many years, it was among the company’s best-kept secrets. Borg ran just about everything within the company, including Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, and any other Google service you can think of—not to…
The idea is simple: You open your terminal and type, $ ssh chat.shazow.net Unlike many others, you might stop yourself before typing “ls” and notice — that’s no shell, it’s a chat room! While the little details sink in, it dawns on you that there is…
Weekend musings: How I hacked my local ISP and some general advice/learnings on keeping yourself safe on the Internet. TL;DR : Time Based Blind SQL Injection with some common sense. If you don't want to read all this technical jargon just scroll down to…
GoBGP is an open source BGP implementation designed from scratch for modern environment and implemented in a modern programming language, the Go Programming Language. We have the Slack and mailing list for questions, discussion, suggestions, etc. You…
Some months ago, Google launched their Alpha program for their upcoming CDN service. We kept a close eye to their development and in the meanwhile, in NEXT 2016 Google has already announced the Beta phase of their CDN. We already discussed how this new…
When IBM, Google, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Tyan founded OpenPOWER Foundation three years ago, the initiative was supported by only two server manufacturers: Google, which builds servers for itself, and Tyan. Today, OpenPOWER has expanded significantly in terms…
