Clive Thompson: The Secret History of Women in Coding
From Ada Lovelace to the reVIVE’s team, Clive Thompson traces the history of women in computer programming.
Continue…Beware! A simple wallpaper image can brick your Android device
In the past, we have often heard of some strings or files that you can send to other users to cause their iPhone/iPad to reboot.
Now there’s a similar issue affecting some Android devices: a simple picture can soft-brick some Android phones if it’s set as the wallpaper.
Niles: a simple telegram bot template for Heroku
Niles is a simple NodeJs telegram bot template, designed to run on PaaS (currently only works on Heroku).
Continue…Don’t forget to bring a towel!
For my birthday, I got myself a present: I carved out enough time to finalize a musical project deferred too many times.
Continue…How to install WSL on Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC
It’s no secret that my favorite OS is Debian, however, if for various reasons (often Hardware/Software compatibility) i need to install a Windows, i prefer the LTSC version.
Continue…Quick mount of iOS Apps documents on Linux, using iFuse and bash
A very good feature of GNOME is the automatic mount of app’s document sharing when an iOs device is connected to the system.
On my i3 setup the user experience is more basic, but still useful.
Continue…i3: how to make a pretty lock screen with a small bash script
My regular readers already knows that my favorite desktop environment on Linux is i3.
However, let’s face it, the UI of the default theme of lockscreen tool (i3lock) is hawful.
Amethyst: an 8-bit home computer based on ATmega1284
Amethyst is a great project by Matt Sarnoff.
It’s like a classic home computer: it has an integrated keyboard and can generate audio and video and has a built-in high-level programming language for users to write their own programs.
What do browsers say when they phone home?
Professor Douglas Leith from Trinity College in Ireland, tested six web browsers to determine what data they were sharing.
Continue…The “distroless” approach to Docker containers
Most Docker images build on full Linux distributions often containing a lot of unnecessary complexity, adversely affecting also the application security.
However, by using Google’s “distroless” approach we can build small and secured runtime images.