I run the Ganglia Monitoring System on the home lan to keep an eye on temperatures, loads, disk usages, network throughput and such on the gateway and, more recently, my desktop workstation as well1 The primary reason is that I … Read more
Static site generators (SSGs) can be beneficial for making large websites without reducing performance. They have existed for more than a decade, but they have evolved a lot, especially more recently due to the rise of “Jamstack.” This article goes … Read more
With 2021 having come to an end, now is the time to look back at the big events & trends in the world of web scraping, and try to project what will 2022 look like for web scraping. Including the … Read more
After the Twitter space Q&A @logankilpatrick hosted yesterday on “The future of machine learning and why it looks a lot like Julia,” I thought it would be useful to accumulate some community responses to a few questions about the current … Read more
In the middle of 2017 — roughly four and a half years ago — I went on a search for a monitor to pair with my MacBook Pro while I was at work. I wanted something that was “retina” quality — … Read more
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Apple Inc iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to four people familiar with the matter. … Read more
Members of the world’s open source community are facing a novel and rapidly expanding threat that has nothing to do with passive adversaries exploiting known vulnerabilities in the wild — and everything to do with aggressive attackers intentionally tampering with … Read more
Find all secrets about DNS governing a domain Setting up a domain name for proper hosting of a web site, emails or other services can be quite counter-intuitive to people who are not familiar with how this system all works. … Read more
TLDR; When I tried netbooting 24 RPi3s in 2017, it failed miserably. Find out what changed when I built my private cloud with the newer Raspberry Pi 4s and K3s. Just over three years ago, I wrote up a blog … Read more
At the risk of alienating most of the readership of this magazine, here is a confession. I hated Python for a very long time. My issue was not with the language per se, even though the indentation rules have put … Read more