Practical Technology

It’s a debate that goes all the way back to whether you should tell Fred that Barney gets two more clams than he is as a Bronto crane operator at Slate Rock and Gravel Company: Should you be open with your employees about their salaries — or keep it…Read More

If you’re a programmer, you already know about Stack Overflow. It’s a developer site where questions about all languages and problems are asked and answered. Every programmer uses it and knows jokes about developers who cobble their programs together…Read More

At first, it looked like the OpenSSL 3.x security bug was going to be truly awful. While it was feared to be a critical error that could lead to remote code execution (RCE), upon a closer examination it turned out to be not so horrid after all.…Read More

The bad news is that you can install newer visions of Kubernetes and — Bang! — you can’t network with your worker nodes. The good news is a Mirantis engineer found some fixes and is sharing them. There’s nothing quite so much as setting up a bright…Read More

Column The fact that I like the Linux desktop will come as no surprise to anyone who reads my work. I mean, I was once the lead writer and editor for a long-gone publication called Linux Desktop. So why is it as I sit at Kubecon North America in…Read More

Sigstore, the open source software signing service, is now available to everyone that needs to prove to a customer what’s what in their code. Which, by the way, is pretty much every commercial software developer on the planet. Some good has come out…Read More