QuestDB Is Hiring a Front End Engineer (React)
About QuestDB We have built the fastest open source time series database from the ground up to offer breakthrough performance for real-time analytics using SQL. We bring experience and technical approaches from low-latency trading to leverage real-time data processing in various use cases and industries. Our users deploy QuestDB to make time series analysis fast, […]
Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit
When people call the US Supreme Court “corporate-friendly,” it’s often hard to know what that means in concrete terms. But here’s an example of what it means when the highest court in the land is in the tank for big business. Transunion is a giant credit reporting bureau. These companies have their origin in a […]
Robinhood to pay $70M for ‘systemic supervisory failures’
The Robinhood App is displayed on a screen in this photo illustration January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Illustration WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) – Online broker Robinhood Financial LLC has been ordered to pay $70 million for ‘systemic supervisory failures’ and causing ‘significant harm’ to millions of customers with misleading or false information and outages, an industry […]
Everything We Know About 1970s Mainframe RPGs We Can No Longer Play
A PLATO terminal in a museum case at the University of Illinois; photo taken by the author in 2013. This entry summarizes a series of 1970s mainframe games that have been so lost we don’t even have screenshots. Before posting this entry, I scoured available books, magazines, web sites (including those archived), and message […]
Apple Still Planning Return to In-Person Work Despite Complaints
Apple is not backing down on its plan to return to three days of in-person work a week starting in September, despite employees complaining about the new change. Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook penned an internal letter to employees outlining the company’s plan to return to in-person work three days a week in […]
Software Engineering principles to make teams better
Software Engineering principles to make teams better. For leaders who don’t want to spend their time micro-managing Improve your own capability Discover the best principles, why they are useful and then integrate that into your behavior. View the principles Share your knowledge with your team Build more capable and autonomous teams by capturing and sharing […]
Goldman seems to be running networking software from 2008
Exchanges at Goldman Sachs Should cryptocurrencies be considered an institutional asset class? That’s the question Goldman Sachs’ Allison Nathan explores on this episode of Exchanges at Goldman Sachs in conversations with Galaxy Digital’s Michael Novogratz, NYU’s Nouriel Roubini and Goldman Sachs’ Mathew McDermott.
Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web
Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together preserve the intellectual products of human civilization—fits Clarke’s observation well. In Steve Jobs’s words, “it just works,” as readily as clicking, tapping, or speaking. And every bit […]
Lessons from Building a Static Site Generator
Nick ReeseNick Reese Signature About Projects The backstory behind Elder.js and the thinking behind the 5 biggest design decisions. Almost 2 months ago, we shipped Elder.js v1 and I wanted to do a recap of the lessons learned shipping it. If you’re unaware, Elder.js is Svelte static site generator that supports Partial Hydration, 0kb client […]
Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s
Matthew Broderick in the 1983 teen-hacker movie, WarGames. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment) There is this part of your brain called your prefrontal cortex that apparently does not fully develop until you are in your 20’s. This area is responsible for things like planning, determining consequences of actions, solving problems, and impulse control. Since it really […]