Elon Musk didn’t make many friends when he took over Twitter, but some bosses liked that he banned remote work. Too bad he’s already backed off that idea. When Twitter was evicted from its Seattle offices because Musk was no … Continue reading →

My first languages were IBM 360 Assembler and C. I’ve always been fond of low-level languages. If I were going to become a developer today, my first choice would be Rust. The language has already become a critical system-building language … Continue reading →

If you downloaded PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between Dec. 25, 2022, and Dec. 30, 2022, you’ve got trouble. Someone, we still don’t know who, uploaded a poisoned Python Package Index (PyPI) dependency that hid under the real dependency name,…Read … Continue reading →

Linux and open-source coverage for professionals When I was a kid, my dad was a TV repairman. Thanks to that, I grew up with an oscilloscope probe in one hand and a soldering iron in the other. You could say … Continue reading →

Most businesses started being disrupted by the clouds years ago. Entertainment? Cloud-based streaming changed everything. Telecoms? 5G runs on OpenStack clouds. Office work? Microsoft would much rather have you subscribe to Microsoft 365 than buy…Read More

We all know keeping secrets, such as passwords, credentials, keys, and access tokens, in our code, is a bad security idea. But, thanks to code-driven automation with secrets and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) we do it anyway. And,…Read More