Stourhead House –nationaltrustimages-johnhammond For a famously small-c, conservative institution which has traditionally avoided controversy over the years unlike other national treasures – BBC, NHS, what have they been doing to upset the sensibilities of middle England? They’ve resisted renaming buildings … Read more
27 May 2021 Overview This is an investigation into the techniques used by some email (newsletter) providers to track their readers’ activity. It attempts to deconstruct tracking links and pixels and highlight the data that is being collected. Some of … Read more
Once you start working with the Varnish source code, you will notice that Varnish is not your average run of the mill application. That is not a coincidence. I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only … Read more
Customer-relationship management is the biggest, fastest growing software market in the world. $40B is spent on CRMs annually, and almost all companies have one. But for those of us that don’t directly use a CRM… what’s the big deal? A … Read more
The philosopher Kwame Appiah writes that “in life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.” When I try to figure out what … Read more
Here’s a sentence I find myself saying several times a week: …or we could just box it. There’s two remarkable things about this sentence. The first, is that the advice is very rarely heeded, and instead, whoever I just said … Read more
SQLite developers often prefer to work on database internals. For an external observer nothing really changes. 2020 was a pleasant exception – SQLite received a bunch of nice features for ordinary users, such as generated columns, UPDATE FROM and fantastic … Read more