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Electric Geek Transportation Systems
Iโve never thought of myself as a โcar person.โ The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, thefirstnew car I ever bought) was thequirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then, we bought a
Published on: August 20, 2019 | Source:
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An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
When I wrote aboutApp-pocalypse Nowin 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But itโs also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.Websites have gotten
Published on: May 30, 2019 | Source:The Cloud Is Just Someone Elseโs Computer
When we startedDiscoursein 2013, our server requirements were high:1GB RAMmodern, fast dual core CPUspeedy solid state drive with 20+ GBIโm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications.We
Published on: February 17, 2019 | Source:The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were OK
Published on: February 17, 2019 | Source:What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and hereโs my 15 second answer:We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. Itโs calledStack
Published on: October 22, 2018 | Source:There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security
Remember โcybersecurityโ?Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy... things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to?Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the worldโs history. For proof
Published on: September 21, 2018 | Source:To Serve Man, with Software
I didnโt choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed,the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was thisunambiguously great-for-everyone career field
Published on: December 31, 2017 | Source:The Existential Terror of Battle Royale
Itโs been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probablythe single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else Iโve done professionally after that.
Published on: November 05, 2017 | Source:Hacker, Hack Thyself
Weโve read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded theDiscourseproject; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default,
Published on: June 02, 2017 | Source:Thunderbolting Your Video Card
When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I'm here to report that the future is now. Yes, that's
Published on: March 24, 2017 | Source:Password Rules Are Bullshit
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZvโ Jeff Atwood
Published on: March 10, 2017 | Source: