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  • Chromium Dominance

    I think the reason that Chromium has really taken over is that they provided a super modular system using a popular programming language (C++) that allowed smaller companies to innovate on browser UI/UX without having to spend millions reinventing the rendering engine. Meanwhile, Firefox uses a more obscure language (Rust) making it less attractive for…

  • Blockchain

    There is no word in the English language that will cause me to lose interest in a project faster than “blockchain”.

  • The Server Side Public License sucks

    Sounds like MongoDB‘s Server Side Public License has been a complete failure. Both Redhat and Debian have removed them for their repos. AWS and Azure both built their own MongoDB API compatible databases and have started migrating customers over.

  • Jack Bogle has died

    Jack Bogle, inventor of the index fund, has died. May he rest in peace.

  • State of Messaging

    Messaging is in a poor state these days. SMS is unencrypted WhatsApp is proprietary software owned by an advertising company Telegram tried to roll their own crypto Signal is completely centralized and could roll out an update breaking their encryption at any moment Jabber doesn’t seem to support E2E group chats and doesn’t have any…

  • Bedrock Linux

    I’ve played around with Bedrock Linux for the last few hours. It looks like a really cool project. It’s not really a full distro but rather a package manager for other distros. So for example you can run ‘brl fetch debian arch ubuntu’ and it will install Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu on your system. You…

  • Exploration of the Game of Life

    Basic Exploration In-depth Exploration Can you find a pattern that returns to its starting point after more than two time steps? What’s the longest you can see a pattern go without repeating a configuration? To answer these questions I decided to build my own implementation of Conway’s Game of Life in Python to brute force…

  • GDPR Scam

    You know GDPR compliance is going to create a whole new entry point for hackers to impersonate users and send data requests to companies to get people’s info.

  • Introducing the AskSteem Search Engine

    This article was originally published on Steemit.com Over the past month, I’ve been building a new search engine that indexes the steem blockchain. It’s currently live at asksteem.com. The goal of AskSteem is to provide a reliable, powerful, and fast search engine that is optimized for steem. In this post, I’d like to cover some…

  • How to Make Phone Calls on an iPod

    The New iPod Touch from Apple is a great way of getting an iOS 8/9 experience without having to pay the hefty price of the iPhone. However while cheaper than the iPhone it does come with a few drawbacks, one of which is that it cannot be used to make Phone calls or send text…