The corporate surveillance machine is killing people
A programmer's furious condemnation of corporate surveillance and adtech, arguing that selling user location data enables real-world violence and murder.
A programmer's furious condemnation of corporate surveillance and adtech, arguing that selling user location data enables real-world violence and murder.
A technical guide on building an indoor location prediction system using WiFi signal data and a Random Forest classifier in JavaScript.
Explains the 'working backwards' problem-solving technique, using a child's puzzle and Amazon's product development process as examples.
A developer shares his 2021 productivity toolkit and workflow for managing tasks, projects, and a distributed team at Google.
Analyzes the problems with if/else/switch statements in code and proposes a polymorphic factory object solution for better architecture.
A guide to setting up and using Tox and PyTest for testing Python functions in OpenFaaS, including a sample calculator project.
Explains how to use Vue's InjectionKey utility for type-safe provide/inject patterns, ensuring proper TypeScript inference.
A tutorial on using C libraries in Swift, covering Swift Package Manager setup and interoperability for beginners.
A tutorial on creating a simple scroll-triggered image rotation animation using JavaScript and CSS.
Explores upcoming Java features like pattern matching in switch, array/record patterns, and primitive objects from projects Amber and Valhalla.
A guide to quickly profiling data in Apache Kafka topics using the kafkacat and visidata command-line tools for data exploration.
A tutorial on setting up an Express.js server, using templating engines (EJS, Mustache, Handlebars, Pug), and creating APIs for full-stack development.
A tutorial on building and deploying a basic API using the Go Buffalo framework, from initial setup to deployment on Heroku.
A guide on integrating OpenSeaMap maritime data into Kibana maps for enhanced visualization of location-based data like ship tracking.
A guide to configuring phpMyAdmin with Docker for connecting to CloudSQL, AWS RDS, and local databases.
A benchmark comparison of switch statements versus map lookups in Go, revealing performance differences and implementation details.
A technical guide on using AWS Step Functions with Map states and ResultSelectors to download and process large, paginated API data in parallel.
A deep dive into Swift's string interpolation mechanism, exploring the ExpressibleByStringInterpolation protocol and its underlying syntactic transformations.
Guide to setting up Windows Admin Center for Azure VMs using PowerShell, enabling remote management via the Azure portal.
A GitHub engineer reflects on eight years of impactful projects, including GeoJSON rendering, government outreach, and GitHub Pages improvements.