How to Make HTTPS Verifiable
Madhavan Malolan Sep 16, 2024 OSSEngineering Imagine you’ve ordered Nike Sneakers online and need to prove it. You might show a screenshot of your order, which works in informal settings where trust exists. However, this method breaks down at scale. For instance, if a business offers discounts to customers who have purchased Nike Sneakers, they […]
TouchArcade Is Shutting Down
This is a post that I’ve known was coming for quite some time, but that doesn’t make it any easier to write. After more than 16 years TouchArcade will be closing its doors and shutting down operations. There may be an additional post here or there in the coming weeks as we try to honor […]
Do Not Sign the Qt License Agreement Unchanged
Episode 55: Better Built By Burkhard Dear Reader, You are the first to learn that I launched a new product: License Compliance for Embedded Linux Systems. Actually, it is not that new any more. I have performed license compliance checks for more than 25 customers over the last 5 years – but in some kind […]
Is ‘Monolith First’ the Better Approach?
As I hear stories about teams using a microservices architecture, I’ve noticed a common pattern. Almost all the successful microservice stories have started with a monolith that got too big and was broken up Almost all the cases where I’ve heard of a system that was built as a microservice system from scratch, it has […]
Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is instructing corporate staffers to spend five days a week in the office, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo on Monday. […]
The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)
Intriguing title, no? These are the first eleven words of Neal Stephenson’s novel Seveneves, which set up the remaining 600 pages as an extended treatise on the future of humanity as it copes with certain annihilation. I thoroughly recommend it, as long as you can deal with hundreds of pages of orbital mechanics. In this […]
Words on Founder Mode
I’ve worked at three successful start-ups and one failure. I’ve also worked at post-IPO successes such as Borland, Netscape, and Apple, which means I’ve seen a lot of different founders who, if you measure success financially, were quite successful. My backstory aside and with deep respect, most founders fail. You’ve heard of the stories of […]
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers
About us: We’re a digital caregiver that helps older & disabled adults avoid retirement communities and age well in their own homes. We tailor on demand APIs from companies like Uber and Instacart to the needs of people living with cognitive, visual, mobility and dexterity impairments. We’re operating profitably with millions in revenue and growing […]
A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell
Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely. Previous episodes include: The Day of a new Command-Line Interface: Shell (high level) Whipping up a new Shell – Lash#Cat9 (technical demo), Cat9 Microdosing: Stash […]
Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval
The US Food and Drug Administration Monday published approval for sleep apnea detection on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Watch Ultra 2. The green light comes four days ahead of the Series 10’s September 20 release date. The feature, announced at last week’s iPhone 16 event, will arrive as part of the […]