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opendrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

We Have Ruined Childhood

How to Build Good Software

What Owning a Love Hotel in Japan is Like

Who gives a F*** about Rails in 2019?

Post Mortem: A closer look at a password storage issue affecting 3,420 customers

A black teen ran out with a $2 beer. Then a Tennessee store clerk followed him and shot him dead

Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden

google/nixery: Container registry which transparently builds images using the Nix package manager

Amazon Prime Day 2019 – Powered by AWS

Amazon DynamoDB supports multiple high-traffic sites and systems including Alexa, the Amazon.com sites, and all 442 Amazon fulfillment centers. Across the 48 hours of Prime Day, these sources made 7.11 trillion calls to the DynamoDB API, peaking at 45.4 million requests per second.

Highlights from Git 2.23

Rails 6.0: Action Mailbox, Action Text, Multiple DBs, Parallel Testing, Webpacker by default, and Zeitwerk

The Order of the JSON

Twitter is Trying to Erase the Past

'We know where you live': Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymous threats

Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

Cool, but obscure X11 tools

RusTLS : vers un nouveau standard cryptographique

Web security company Cloudflare files to go public

Substitution-permutation networks are the basis for almost all modern symmetric cryptography. Dr Mike Pound explains.

Nintendo Is Cracking Down On Popular YouTube Music Channels

The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android

The HTC Wildfire is back, and HTC has almost nothing to do with it

Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click