In this article learn what serverless architecture is, 3 benefits to using it, and see examples of how it's being used.

In this article learn what serverless architecture is, 3 benefits to using it, and see examples of how it's being used.

In the past, when a new version of Java was released, I would add that version to our open source project's CI builds. strategy: matrix: java-version: - 8 - 9 ⋮ - 17 + - 18 This ensures that each project can be built and its tests pass on every major version. But this makes no sense! No user is buil...

A great overview of all the latest and upcoming CSS features. Presented by Adam Argyle at Google I/O ‘22.

The quality of your recorded audio for an at home podcaster is a black art. Audio is a fundamentally analog process and Once upon a time, in the antediluvian ages of podcasting (2005 / 2006), I was a podcaster. And then, a decade later, my friend Nick Janetakis, a producer of online courses also tau...

Everything you need to know to create an auto repair invoice.

Everything you need to know to create an auto repair invoice.

Learn all about medical billing basics here.

Learn all about medical billing basics here.

Find out about medical billing systems.

Find out about medical billing systems.

IVR payments are both secure and convenient.

IVR payments are both secure and convenient.

I have a sweet tooth and one candy I really enjoy is Strawberry Sour Punch. Unfortunately after twenty years of having the same formula it seems that the company has decided to change the formula for Sour Punch. The new candy has more of a cherry flavor and isn't as sour. It does not taste […]

Introduction From AWS Graviton instances to M1 MacBooks, ARM processors are everywhere these days. This blog post illustrates the experiences, challenges, and solutions encountered in the Data Science Engineering team at NextRoll as we have come to embrace the ARM ecosystem. Docker / Containerizatio...

In my previous post 8 months ago I described how our open source online game DDraceNetwork has been suffering under DoS attacks for about 8 years, basically since its inception. Recently the attacks have gotten much worse, forcing us to work on further approaches. Since many players made suggestions...

This was an exciting month: the Hare programming language is a secret no more! You can now try out the programming language I first teased over a year ago and tell me what you think. I hope you like it! I’m quite pleased with it so far.One thing Hare has done is allow me to unshelve several projects...

This was an exciting month: the Hare programming language is a secret no more! You can now try out the programming language I first teased over a year ago and tell me what you think. I hope you like it! I’m quite pleased with it so far. One thing Hare has done is allow me to unshelve several project...

A couple of weeks ago I was working on adding SSH Certificate Authentication support to Wish, and did not find any good, to the point documentation on how to use certificates from the Go SSH client — hence this post.

Is empathy possible in the metaverse? What can we do to build better experiences in Virtual Spaces?

Is empathy possible in the metaverse? What can we do to build better experiences in Virtual Spaces?

This is a draft of a chapter from my in-progress book, Practical Math for Programmers: A Tour of Mathematics in Production Software. Tip: Determine an aggregate statistic about a sensitive question, when survey respondents do not trust that their responses will be kept secret. Solution: import rando...

Modern Unix derivatives have this really bad idea called ioctl. It’s a function which performs arbitrary operations on a file descriptor. It is essentially the kitchen sink of modern Unix derivatives, particularly Linux, in which they act almost like a second set of extra syscalls. For example, to g...

Modern Unix derivatives have this really bad idea called ioctl. It’s a function which performs arbitrary operations on a file descriptor. It is essentially the kitchen sink of modern Unix derivatives, particularly Linux, in which they act almost like a second set of extra syscalls. For example, to g...

Every so often I run into a tool which just impresses me. This time it is Miller. And when I find such a tool, I write up a blog post to firm up my learnings. Here is the official description: Miller is a command-line tool for querying, shaping, and reformatting data files in various formats includi...

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