Having the right tools for the job can help you work smarter and get things done quicker.
Here I try to share some of the tools that I have picked up over the years that.
Our understanding of the universe could be fundamentally wrong, astronomers say
Our understanding of the universe could be fundamentally wrong, scientists have said.
System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
If you’re making any project of sufficient complexity, you’ll need a publish/subscribe server to process events. This article will introduce you to Postgres, explain the alternatives, and walk you through an example use case of pub/sub and its solution.
Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers
That’s according to an official dossier published by the US National Safety Transportation Board (NTSB) on Tuesday. The March 2018 accident was the first recorded death by a fully autonomous vehicle.
Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says
A Texas academic created a stir last year by alleging that Bitcoin’s astronomical surge in 2017 was probably triggered by manipulation. He’s now doubling down with a striking new claim: a single market whale was likely behind the misconduct, seemingly with the power to move prices at will.
The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
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Can You Overdose on Happiness?
The science and philosophy of deep brain stimulation. It is a good question, but I was a little surprised to see it as the title of a research paper in a medical journal: “How Happy Is Too Happy?” Yet there it was in a publication from 2012.
Detailed agenda for a DDD Design-Level Event Storming – part 1
Running a DDD Design-Level Event Storming is not rocket science! It’s still crucial to start the right way: with domain events and the Picture that explains Everything! This post is the second in a series about how to build event-based systems with Design-Level Event Storming and DDD.
A Quick and Easy Guide to tmux
I love working with the command line. Seriously, I think there’s hardly any more productive and more versatile tool for a software developer than the terminal. Maybe it’s the hacker/wizard/neckbeard kind of feeling I get when using a terminal, I don’t know.
3 ways to handle secrets in AWS ECS tasks
No matter how much time and effort we spend on application security, it is always less. But simple workflows for things like secret management, key rotation and password expiration go a long way in making our applications and infrastructure resilient against the obvious attack vectors.