Vanessa Freudenberg’s SqueakJS Paper Wins ACM Sigplan Most Notable Paper Award [pdf]
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I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100
Allegory of Failure during the Pilgrimage of Life, by Monogrammist HSR, 1519 A few months ago, I was adapting an official guide for an AWS service. Specifically, integrating OpenSearch with Amplify. I worked through the guide, and modified and debugged it for my own purposes. A few weeks later, I received an AWS bill for […]
GOG’s Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics
The classic PC games market is “in a sorry state,” according to DRM-free and classic-minded storefront GOG. Small games that aren’t currently selling get abandoned, and compatibility issues arise as technology moves forward or as one-off development ideas age like milk. Classic games are only 20 percent of GOG’s catalog, and the firm hasn’t actually […]
A Woman Who Defined the Great Depression
Sanora Babb spent her life dealing with all the multifarious daily perils that prevent writers from writing. She was raised in poverty by a mother who was only 16 when she gave birth to her and an abusive father who spent his days playing semi-pro baseball and gambling. From the age she could walk, she […]
Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video]
Go-Safeweb
DISCLAIMER: This is not an officially supported Google product. go-safeweb is a collection of libraries for writing secure-by-default HTTP servers in Go. Contributing This project is in an early stage. We are currently not accepting any contributions. The flexibility of Go’s net/http package allows users to quickly implement HTTP servers. Responses are then written simply […]
JSON for Classic C++
json.cpp is an anti-modern JSON parsing / serialization library for C++. This project is a reaction against https://github.com/nlohmann/json/ which provides a modern C++ library for JSON. Our alternative: Compiles 10x faster. An object that does nothing with JSON except calling nlohmann::ordered_json::parse will take at minimum 1200 ms to compile. This is an unacceptably slow minimum […]
Windows Kills SMB Speeds When Using Tailscale
The Issue Yesterday when trying to transfer an ISO file from a TrueNAS SMB share, I was getting horrible transfer speeds. The NAS can definitely saturate a gigabit link which is what my desktop connects to the switch over. I had seen this behavior before and had a feeling it was related to having Tailscale […]
Looking for a Job Is Tough
Since the beginning of September, I’ve been searching for a job after being laid off from my previous role at the end of June. The market is tough, lot’s of fake jobs, so it’s been pretty challenging to even land an interview. Still, I managed to get a few, and, well, not all of them […]
Farewell and thank you for the continued partnership, Francois Chollet
Today, we’re announcing that Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras and a leading figure in the AI world, is embarking on a new chapter in his career outside of Google. While we are sad to see him go, we are incredibly proud of his immense contributions and excited to see what he accomplishes next. With […]