Central Bank Digital Currency may be the final step towards a cashless society
2 Feb 2021
For small business owners, much has changed in the past few years – a widespread shift to remote work, a growing push for companies to use cloud apps, the general embrace of cloud data storage. In this brave new world, one thing has remained constant: For small businesses, strong cybersecurity is essential. After all, these […] The post Small Businesses…
It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten a few things off of my chest and since I’m always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: Sometimes you need to get out of the cult and stop drinking the Kool-Aid to see an organization for what it is. My childhood dream was working for Mozilla,…
We’re ironically searching for counterexamples to the Riemann Hypothesis. Setting up Pytest Adding a Database Search Strategies Unbounded integers Deploying with Docker In the last article we ran into some performance issues with our deployed docker application. In this article we’ll dig in to see what happened, fix the problem, run into another problem, fix it, and run the search…
What the observer API means for PHP 8 and the future of observability
Testing is at the heart of engineering practices at SoundCloud. We strive to build well-balanced test pyramids within our code repositories…
1 Feb 2021
The AIDA model is a powerful framework to guide your content marketing
There are many different types of business models. Here’s what to look for
Get creative with new ways to attract top talent to your business
2020 was a hard one. I started writing this post in December, but I couldn't make myself finish it. The whole situation with COVID made me anxious at times and I didn't really have motivation for my side projects including this blog. But I won't focus on bad things, everyone had a tough year, so let's try to stay positive.…
31 Jan 2021
An umbrella company offers an alternative to other tax payment structures
Learn more about how the fiscal year can vary from calendar and tax years
Setting SMART objectives can set your business up for success. Here’s how
Motivate your team to meet goals with a strong performance management system
Rust's traits are a single concept that unifies interfaces, abstract classes, mix-ins, operator overloading, contraints on generics, and more.
29 Jan 2021
Discover why you should make PESTEL analysis a regular part of your strategy
Discover what to look for in a joint venture agreement to benefit your business
Find out how to earn your financial freedom and live your dream retirement.
It is difficult for children, especially young children, to learn over Zoom. It is more difficult to teach critical skills like learning to read and write over Zoom. As Heather Knight and others have noted, keeping children isolated has severe impacts on their mental health. It is the Mayor's top priority to get children back […]
Find out how the cost of goods sold makes a big difference to your bottom line
Fixed assets are important. Here’s what you need to know about them
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe How we made the page fast and performant How we illustrate at GitHub How we designed the homepage and wrote the narrative Creating a page full of product shots, animations,…
Don't let running your business be harder than it needs to be.
28 Jan 2021
The new PubNub SDK for Kotlin includes our popular Files feature, enabling developers to build secure, efficient, and refined Android apps with ease.
The new version of the very sucessful open-source project OpenMapTiles used by 250 millions users every month was just released.
New aspect-ratio CSS property supported in Chromium, Safari Technology Preview, and Firefox Nightly
Una KravetsThe new CSS property that helps maintain spacing in responsive layouts.
27 Jan 2021
In some senses, this is a follow on from my post on VISCA camera control in C#. It’s about another piece of hardware I’ve bought for my local church, and which I want to control via software. This time, it’s an audio mixer. Audio mixers: from hardware controls to software controls The audio mixer we’ve … Continue reading OSC mixer…
How does rational choice theory explain the working of free markets?
Keep on top of HMRC payments using your Self Assessment payment on account
A director’s loan account may be your key to emergency funds
Why do some businesses choose to become a public limited company?
A guide to disbursements for those who use or offer professional services
26 Jan 2021
Is a limited liability company the perfect structure for your small business?
Discover what it means to set up as a sole trader with HMRC
Here’s why growing an audience is so important for inbound marketing
Positioning in marketing offers an easy way to stand out from the crowd
Communicate more effectively with your target audience via market segmentation
We explain the meaning of amortisation, how it’s calculated and why it matters
We show you how to take control of your small business finances
To wrap up January, we are proud to bring you the release of Firefox 85. In this version we are bringing you support for the :focus-visible pseudo-class in CSS and associated devtools, , and the complete removal of Flash support from Firefox. We’d also like to invite you to preview two exciting new JavaScript features in the current Firefox Nightly…
We have met the enemy and they is us. Pogo’s famous maxim applies directly to the threat of trojans in 2021. Although they are some of the oldest forms of malware, and, in their commodity forms, are seen less often these days, trojans have proved to be durable and adaptable. They avoid detection, embed and […] The post How trojan…
Background In 2020, Freeletics had huge surge in traffic as users started to look for best digital health app to keep them fit during the COVID-19 lockdown. This initially led to performance degradation of our servers, about which we were alerted from our monitoring services and user’s complain. We were in firefighting mode for almost 3 weeks, and after repetitive…
🕊️ RIP Unlimited Plex: Gone Too Soon # Whilst this posts methodology is still sound, there are no longer any options for reasonable amounts of cloud storage for cheap. You should go buy some drives or something, that’s what I’ve done, see below. 28 September 2023·1842 words·9 mins 10 November 2023·1592 words·8 mins 7 February 2024·3953 words·19 mins Update: 2022/05/22
25 Jan 2021
We’re happy and proud to announce Open Web Docs, to support a community of technical writers around creation and long-term maintenance of web platform technology documentation that is open and inclusive for all. The post Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
An enjoyable web apps rely on engineers implementing the APIs that cover all of the small things. Those small things sometimes improve performance, usability, accessibility, and the app’s relationship with its host system. The Wake Lock API is the latter — an API that allows developers to instruct the host machine to not dim the screen or sleep, especially useful…
We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.
Tahoe (where we currently live during this pannie-d) got a ton of snow this week, so I’ve been in winter mode. Went skiing on Friday, went snowshoeing on Sunday. My calves are on fire. Skiing is pretty safe; everyone is wearing masks, they’ve closed all the lodges, and tbh nobody should be within 6 feet of me skiing on a…
23 Jan 2021
What is accretion? And how does it affect you and your business?
We explain what ‘paid in arrears’ means and how they're calculated
Find out when and how to use the break even point formula in business
Great feedback encourages growth. Find out how to write a performance review
How to use marketing mix strategy to enhance and streamline your output
How could CRM and CRM tools benefit your business endeavours?
Make a big impression on your target market with a market penetration strategy
22 Jan 2021
DUM-E (“dummy”) and U (“you”) are the names of the robot arms in the Iron Man movies. After watching this movie for the n-teenth time, I have a strong urge to also have robotic arms in a workshop like Tony Stark. You can see the value of the robots clearly throughout the movie. The robots allow Tony to produce suits…
Finding the right abstraction is hard. In this blog post, I would like to share a technique that works well for us (my android teammates and me) when dealing with String resources on android. An abstraction layer for Strings? Why do we even need an abstraction to simply work with Strings on Android? Probably you don’t if your app is…
We are pleased to announce that the January 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This was a short release where we closed a total of 13 issues, and it includes a data viewer when debugging and PYTHONPATH support with Pylance. The post Python in Visual Studio Code – January 2021 Release appeared first…
21 Jan 2021
As a member of Mozilla’s fuzzing team, our job is not only to find bugs, but to do what we can to help get those bugs fixed as quickly as possible. To further reduce the delay in getting these bugs fixed, we wanted to automate as much of this process as possible. This effort resulted in the development of Bugmon;…
20 Jan 2021
We explain the meaning of an oligopoly and why you need to understand it
Understanding monopolistic competition can give you a competitive edge.
The duties, and responsibilities of a Fiduciary.
We demystify Forex so that you, and your business, can benefit
Understanding a Yield Curve is important in understanding your investments.
Choose from the best employee management software on the market this year.
Find out what you need to know to claim an overpaid tax refund from HMRC.
Are you up to date with the latest IR35 tax rules? Find out who they apply to.
The release of Apple Silicon-based Macs at the end of last year generated a flurry of news coverage and some surprises at the machine’s performance. This post details some background information on the experience of porting Firefox to run natively on these CPUs. The post Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
19 Jan 2021
In very rare cases, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will cause the person being vaccinated to have an allergic reaction. When I say very rare, I mean it; the chances are a few in a million, or about the same of picking a specific resident of Newark, New Jersey at random out of the phone […]
I’m happy to announce that at the end of 2020 I joined Sentry.io as their second Developer Productivity engineer \o/ I’m excited to say that it’s been a great fit and that I can make use of most of the knowledge I’ve gained in the last few years. I like the ambition of the company and that they like to…
These days it seems like the only constant is change, and the networking and security worlds are no exception. Industry predictions around consolidation, cloud adoption, and convergence that were previously considered aggressive now seem understated. And with the unprecedented move to remote work across industries, these massive shifts continue to accelerate. The network perimeter is […] The post How to…
18 Jan 2021
How a well-targeted customer campaign can help customers switch to bank debit.
With the Stipop Chat Stickers API integration, PubNub developers can give their chat users access to a huge, feature-rich chat sticker library
Monday was off which ruined any routine I had formed. I barely got used to waking up on Mondays to go to work and then bam, 2 weeks in, a Monday off. I had dreams all week about working part time, probably because my brain is clinging desperately to this hope of not having to ever wake up on Mondays.…
15 Jan 2021
Enable your team to communicate the value of bank debit to your customers.
14 Jan 2021
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) is an interactive film in which viewers are periodically asked to make decisions for the main character Stefan Butler, the decisions then result in different scenes, and paths through the film, resulting in a branching path to a variety of endings. Think “choose-your-own-adventure”, but in interactive video. Since television viewers are conditioned to be passive spectators,…
13 Jan 2021
Perform a business health check with the times interest earned ratio
Find out everything you need to know about financial ratio analysis
Drawings in accounting are records of withdrawals by business owners
12 Jan 2021
Learn how to make smarter investments using the Sharpe Ratio
Get the inside track on loan covenants with our handy loan covenant definition
How could mark to market in accounting be useful for your business?
Find out everything you need to know about off-sheet-financing in this guide
It’s clear that WebDriver needs to grow to meet the capabilities of DevTools-based automation. However, that process will take time, and we want more developers to be able to run their automated tests in Firefox today. To that end, we have shipped an experimental implementation of parts of CDP in Firefox Nightly, specifically targeting the use cases of end-to-end testing…
How innovation speeds performance, cuts latency When considering any IT security capability, you rigorously evaluate features and functions. Will it block threats? Will it protect my systems, my people, my data? How will it impact end-users’ experience? Will it help me keep my job? But with a cloud security solution, the underlying infrastructure is just, […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
11 Jan 2021
Learn how matrix management can boost overall business productivity
Learn about the benefits of residual value and how to calculate it.
Learn how a non-disclosure agreement works and its core elements
Interacting with a user’s host clipboard is something web developers have wanted for both good and evil purposes. On the good side, it’s nice to allow users to easily copy text like wallet addresses or branch names; for evil, copying malicious text that the user may mistakenly paste into a form and have their funds stolen — and there are…
Still into soups: I made a bomb cream of broccoli. I also bought a new vegan broth base to fuck with because buying the cartons of broth is like buying bottled water aka: bad and wasteful. My dog’s skin is turning grey. I know this sounds funny but it’s like, a thing. There could be a number of reasons for…
10 Jan 2021
Learn how the time period principle in accounting works with GoCardless
Learn about incremental budgeting, advantages, and disadvantages
Find out about cnp fraud and ways to prevent it
Explore Python's constant folding - how it optimizes code by evaluating expressions at compile time. Dive into CPython's elegant implementation.
8 Jan 2021
There are lots of solutions out there. Which factors should you consider?
Incentivise your customers to pay using bank debit
After Mapbox announced the closure of Mapbox GL JS, the community made a collective decision to maintain and further develop the last open-source version and build a free alternative.
7 Jan 2021
Find out everything you need to know about substance over form in accounting
Learn how gamification can help you smash your business goals.
Learn how employee turnover can affect a company and how to manage it
Find out why demand-pull inflation happens and how to control it