Argues against using Slack for FOSS project communication, advocating for IRC due to its open, standardized, and distributed nature.
Part 3 of a series on building Stack Overflow's tag engine, focusing on implementing complex boolean queries using bitmap indexes and compression.
Explores using Apache Kafka to create flexible, testable data pipelines, enabling multiple parallel consumers and safe experimentation.
A database professional's travelogue of speaking at SQL Server and tech conferences across Asia, Europe, and America in late 2015.
A guide on evaluating third-party Swift libraries, covering community, maintenance, and other key factors to consider before adding dependencies.
Key factors for choosing third-party Swift libraries, covering community, maintenance, and cost-benefit analysis.
A developer builds a prototype hot loader for Angular 2, inspired by React, to update components without a full page refresh.
Explains the memory leak problem in Attached Behaviors in XAML apps and demonstrates a practical solution with code examples.
A summary of key technical takeaways from the final day of VMworld Europe 2015, covering VMware Horizon, VSAN, vSphere Replication, and VM forking.
Explores whether blockchain technology can provide resilient, robust, and scalable infrastructure for essential societal data.
A guide to using dotfiles to customize and optimize your software development tools like shells and text editors for greater productivity.
Highlights from VMworld Europe 2015 Day 3 sessions covering VMware's VDI leadership, NSX, Virtual Volumes, SDDC transformation, and PowerCLI automation.
Explains the performance benefits and key differences of Compiled Bindings in Windows 10, highlighting the default OneTime mode.
A developer shares their experience switching to Neovim, highlighting its async plugin benefits and providing basic setup instructions.
A tutorial on analyzing Seattle's Pronto CycleShare data using Python, Pandas, and the PyData stack for data science.
Explains the statistical concept of 'double robust' estimation, where using two models for outcome and exposure improves reliability.
Analyzes the three major challenges hindering government IT: change aversion, lack of technocratic leadership, and non-scalable processes.
A developer's experience purchasing and setting up the special edition Octocat Yubico U2F security key for GitHub two-factor authentication.
Announcing Hyper-h2 v1.0.0, a new Python library project providing foundational tools for building HTTP/2 implementations.
A Swift tutorial on loading and validating iOS app receipts with OpenSSL, covering step-by-step validation strategies.
