Table of Contents As a frequent open source maintainer and contributor, I’m often asked: where do you start ? How do you approach a new project with the goal of making meaningful changes? How can you
Nearly 14 years after his death, his provocative humor has been embraced by people across the political spectrum. What happens when comedy outlasts the era it was made for? Send any friend a story As
Search engines are at the heart of the digital world. We interact with them on the outside, using search engines to find information, products, and more. But they do even more unseen work behind the f
Less than three months after its initial launch, it finally happened: the James Webb Space Telescope revealed its first telescope alignment evaluation image . For the first time, humanity’s latest, gr
Today’s article is about one of the most impressive pieces of software Python-related I have ever seen: pyenv . pyenv is the most clever way of installing Python on your system and allows you to insta
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Legendary adventure game designer and Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert had waited years for this. By “this” he’s not just talking about the chance to finally make his own Monkey Island 3 – officially
Sen. Chris Coons, who led Wednesday’s hearing on tech transparency, during a previous hearing in March. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images) On Wednesday, Congress was treated to the unfamiliar spectacle of
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On repl-driven programming # Dec 18, 2020 Once upon a time, someone with the handle “entha_saava” posted this question on Hacker News : Can someone knowledgeable explain how are lisp REPLs different f
This blog post documents my understanding of how the conventions for Unix command line syntax have evolved over time. It’s not properly sourced, and may well be quite wrong. I’ve not been using Unix u
This is my personal story of starting the SRE organization at Uber. If you want advice rather than reminiscence, take a look at Trunk and Branches Model and Productivity in the age of hypergrowth . Af
Just don’t call it a monopoly. We were going to change the world, but for $1.2 billion, we settled for trying to change Microsoft. My first job in the tech industry was working as a data analyst at Ya
If you want to become a better photographer, learn more, get and stay inspired, meet others who share your passion, and make new friends, well, nothing beats a camera club (also known as a photography
While there is undoubtedly a lot of science that goes into making your Pixel water resistant, the ratings we currently see on our devices are not an exact science. Depending on what rating you see and
Recognizing the unique signs of a possible civilizational collapse, rather than being blindsided by it, requires a bold thesis as to what the core engine of our civilization is. Without a clear and correct theory of what makes our civilization function, signs of decay will go unnoticed or…
The moment that broke Cassie Alexander came nine months into the pandemic . As an intensive-care-unit nurse of 14 years, Alexander had seen plenty of “ Hellraiser stuff,” she told me. But when COVID-1
Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I’ve learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I’ve jotted down bits of unsolicited advice each year and much to my surprise
*This piece originally appeared in Project Syndicate on February 11, 2022 Today's inflationary surge is being felt not just by the advanced economies but also by the majority of emerging markets and d
In photography, we strive to take “sharp” photos. Generally, this means that you want the subject to be in focus with clear lines, crisp details, and no (unintended) blurring. It’s a combination of ac
pw stands for Pipe Watch. Pipe-Watch is a new monitoring utility forUnix-like systems, developed starting in April 2022. pw can monitor anything that produces textual output. tail -f /var/logfile , tc
(source) What makes a Product Manager great ? The prolific Shreyas Doshi 1 gives us the list of requirements in a tweet-storm : 1 I highly recommend following @Shreyas , despite the following critique
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