Four short links: 14 Dec 2020
Entity Resolution, Mobile Apps, Thinking, and Language History
Nat Torkington
Nat Torkington has been active in web development since the early days of the web. He wrote the bestselling Perl Cookbook, and chaired conferences for O'Reilly Media for a decade. During his time at O'Reilly Media, Nat was an editor and then became a trend-spotter for the O'Reilly Radar group, identifying the topics to build events and books around. He has worked in areas as diverse as networking, publishing, science, edtech, and NLP. He now lives in New Zealand, where he runs Kiwi Foo Camp and helps startups grow.
Radar
Four short links: 8 Dec 2020
NLP Text Attack Framework, Developer Metrics, Legacy Code, and Distributed Systems Reading List
Four short links: 4 Dec 2020
NAND Game, Game AI, In-Database Machine Learning, and Datastores at Scale
Four short links: 1 Dec 2020
AlphaFold, Purpose-First Programming, 2000 to 2020, and 3D in DNA
Four short links: 27 Nov 2020
Unix History, Robot OS Talks, Learning with Language, and Easy Theory
Four short links: 24 Nov 2020
OpenStreetMap Numbers, Drone Warfare, Pattern-Aware Graph Mining, and Declining Researcher Productivity
Four short links: 20 Nov 2020
CLI ePub Reader, Biology, Technical Debt, and APIs for Databases
Four short links: 17 Nov 2020
Security Papers, Security in Syntax, Mistakes, and GraphQL Editor
Four short links: 13 Nov 2020
SoC Lecture Notes, Flix, Megatrends, and Credential Management
Four short links: 10 November 2020
Four short links: 6 Nov 2020
Hardware Security, Ubooquity, Noisepage, and Technical Debt
Four short links: 4 Nov 2020
Bald AI, Dates and Times, UX, and Tools
Four short links: 30 Oct 2020
Mutation Testing, Causal Reasoning, Pointing and Calling, and Software Architecture
Four short links: 28 Oct 2020
Split-Second Phantom Attacks, Deep Fakery, Serverless, and RE McDonalds API
Four short links: 21 Oct 2020
Antitrust, Differential Dataflow, Multilanguage Translation, and Time
Four short links: 14 Oct 2020
Data in Spreadsheets, Implementing Math, Skin-Printable Sensors, and Hype Cycle History
Four short links: 9 October 2020
Stored Procedures in SQLite, Healthy Tech, Social Retro Gaming, and Glitch Chasm
Four short links: 6 October 2020
Algorithmic Collusion, Hedgemony, Git Exercises, and Android in a Box
Four short links: 2 October 2020
Memristors, USB-C, Unfck the Internet, and Misinformation
Four short links: 29 Sep 2020
IOT Security, Scale vs Experience, Social Bots, and Distributed Consensus
Four short links: 25 September 2020
Incremental Computing, Migration Lessons, Microsoft GPT-3, and Glitch
Four short links: 18 Sep 2020
Contemporary Issues in Computer Science, The Hardware Lottery, Hope, and Culture
Four short links: 16 Sep 2020
Concurrency, Quadruped Robot, Ethics Groups, and Threat Models for Differential Privacy
Four short links: 11 Sep 2020
Lipsync, Workflow, Knowledge Half-Life, and Security Engineering
Four short links: 9 Sep 2020
Software Engineering, Architects and Plumbers, Pair Programming with AI, and Comments
Four short links: 4 September 2020
Hardware Teardown, The Incredible Proof Machine, Better Programming, and ArangoDB
Four short links: 2 September 2020
Debug Visualizer, Userland, Minglr, and Declarative Logic in Rust
Four short links: 28 August 2020
Activity Watch, Natural Language Database Queries, Web Assembly, and Sci-Fi UI
Four short links: 25 August 2020
Wooden Turing Machine, Burnout, Ethics, and Entity Framework for Go
Four short links: 21 August 2020
Data Bugs, Fairness in Machine Learning, Social Architecture, and Developer Advice
Four Short Links: 19 August 2020
Notebook Design, Decision Records, Computational Embroidery, and Neuromorphic Chips
Four short links: 14 August 2020
Endpoint Security, Info from Invoices, Trusting Data, and ARGs and Conspiracy Theories
Four short links: 11 Aug 2020
Immutable Database, Smart Mask, CyberCode Game, and Python Security Auditing
Four short links: 7 Aug 2020
Operations Research, Shell and Programming Language, Knowledge Graphs, and Visual Programming
Four short links: 5 August 2020
Autistic Developer, NyanSat, Real-World CRDTs, and Emergent Behaviour
Four short links: 31 July 2020
SQL Migration, Hypertext Framework, Scaling RDBMS, and Account Recovery
Four short links: 30 July 2020
IDE in Datalog, Web Spreadsheet, ML Transparency, and Formal Systems
Four short links: 29 July 2020
Golden Rule, Software History, Videochat History, and AI Product Management
Four short links: 27 July 2020
Tech Regulation, Editor Latency, EUV Lithography, and Quantum Internet
Four short links: 24 July 2020
Audrey Tang, Remoting, Datomic Internals, and Service Meshes
Four short links: 26 July 2020
AI Coding, DataScript, Structured Argument, and Debugging at Google Scale
Four short links: 22 July 2020
Javascript Wiki, ML on Logs, Remove Chaos, and 1998 Zoom
Four short links: 21 July 2020
Product Management, GPT-3, Stalk Studio, and Symbolic from Deep Learning
Four short links: 20 July 2020
Insect-Mounted Cameras, Augmented Developers, Argument Mapping, and CD Pipelines
Four short links: 17 July 2020
Computation, Web Assembly, Indexing on Spark, and Web UI
Four short links: 16 July 2020
Deriving Pseudocode from Code, Git + Docker for Data, Escape Room in Google Forms, and GPT-3 for Web Design
Four short links: 15 July 2020
Being a Good Programmer, Algorithms I Use, Verifiable Data Structures, and Audio Spy Detector
Four short links: 14 July 2020
Misinfo, Datalog in Clojure, WASM on Arduino, and Mobile Manipulators
Four short links: 13 July 2020
Efficiency, Voice Separation, Design Docs, and Counterfeit Hardware
Four short links: 10 July 2020
CRDTs, Reverse Engineering Malware, GDPR, and A Whole Lot of Research
Four short links: 9 July 2020
Fallback, Observability, Developer Productivity, and Explorable Explanations
Four short links: 8 July 2020
AI Weirdness, Experimentation, ML Ops, and Engineer Productivity
Four short links: 7 July 2020
Scifi Terminal, Detecting Tampering, Wireframing, and Work Schedules
Four short links: 6 July 2020
Better Conversations, Multicore OCaml, Validation, and Tabular Data
Four short links: 3 July 2020
Differential Privacy, Engineering Resumes, Evil C, and Next Web
Four short links: 2 July 2020
Data Viz, Fixing Bugs, Hardware, and SaaS Domains
Four short links: 1 July 2020
Python in VS Code, Product Lessons, Voice Data, and Timeshared Robots
Four short links: 30 June 2020
Durable Teams, Big Tech, Photos to Cartoons, and Deep Chernoff Faces
Four short links: 29 June 2020
Research, SSH Keys, Breaking Up Google, and Indie VC
Four short links: 28 June 2020
Recreating Painting, NLP Deep Learning, Microcopy, and Apple Chip Performance
Four short links: 25 June 2020
Art software, Facial Recognition, No Code, and Firmware Update
Four short links: 24 June 2020
CDA, WireViz, Geospatial, and Photorealistic Upscaling
Four short links: 23 June 2020
WFH Security, Face Super-Resolution, A/B Street, and Covid Tokens
Four short links: 22 June 2020
Root Causes, Humor, Bluetooth Latency, and Computing with Vision
Four short links: June 19, 2020
Security Scanner, Quoteback, Online Events, and Proxy Scrapers
Four short links: 17 June 2020
Drive and Listen, Veblenian Entrepreneurship, Gestural UI, and Loglo
Four short links: 16 June 2020
Totalitarian Software, Protobuf, Quantum Computing, and New Databases
Four short links: 15 June 2020
Social Skills, Programming Languages, GDPR for Developers, and Scanning Microscope
Four short links: 12 June 2020
Robots, Source Hacking, Anonymous Camera, and Apple in China
Four short links: 11 June 2020
Automation, Future, Table Library, and Procedurally-Generated Landscapes
Four short links: 10 June 2020
CapRover, Embedded Programming, Text Summarising, and Microservices
Four short links: 9 June 2020
Monopolies, Internet Voting, Trends, and Translating Programming Languages
Four short links: 8 June 2020
Privacy, Automating Decryption, Development, and Homomorphic Encryption
Four short links: 5 June 2020
Computers Barely Work, Instrumentation, Feedback, and Robotics Debates
Four short links: 4 June 2020
GANs, Detecting Generated Text, Workflow, and Open Source Business
The Business of Open Source
How do you build a business around open source when you’re competing with AWS and the like? Chef’s answer: double down on Open Source.
Four short links: 3 June 2020
Undie Detector, Formal Methods, Workflow Automation, and Open Source Multimedia Communications
Four short links: 2 June 2020
Coders on Twitch, Information Warfare, Myths of Reliability, and Policy as Code
Four short links: 1 June 2020
Face Swapping, Disinfo, Image Scrubber, and Taste Display
Four short links: 29 May 2020
Confidential Computing, Systems, Visual Programming, and Deno
Four short links: 28 May 2020
Museum Closes, EOS Webcam, Influence Operations, and Automation Failure
Four short links: 27 May 2020
Facebook Ethics, Ubiquitous Voice, ML in Production, and Prediction Limitations
Four short links: 26 May 2020
High-Performing Teams, DOS Source Code, Safety vs Encryption, and Online Conferences
Four short links: 25 May 2020
Universal Font, Deep Fakes, Streaming Database, Software Development
Four short links: 22 May 2020
Contact Tracing Standards, Functional Languages, Quantum Computing, Deno
Four short links: 21 May 2020
Fuzzing, Code from Comments, Open Sourced Games, Podcasting
Four short links: 20 May 2020
Source Code Secrecy, Video Chat, Perl in the Browser, Cybersecurity and Intelligence
Four short links: 19 May 2020
Malware Services, AI Ops, Moldable Environment, and Social Software
Four short links: 18 May 2020
Web Assembly, System Design, Underhanded Source, and GNU Radio
Four short links: 15 May 2020
Park Downhill, VR DOS, WASM COBOL Pong, Scaling Engineering Teams
Four short links: 14 May 2020
Airgap Malware, AI Surprises, OBS Mac, and Deno
Four short links: 13 May 2020
Marcus Hutchins, Social Software, Lou Montulli, Hyped Technology
Four short links: 12 May 2020
Simulation Framework, Errors, Social Software, Politics of Information
Four short links: 11 May 2020
Go IRC Server, DeepFake Cartoon Voices, System Programming Book, TDD Data
Four short links: 8 May 2020
Machine Learning Math, Nerd Humour, Open Data Analytics, Radar Trends
Four short links: 7 May 2020
Reverse Engineering, IBM System/370 on a Pi, Sparklines, and Content Moderation
Four short links: 6 May 2020
Open Source Spectrometer, Software Frames, Deleting Data, and Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery
Four short links: 5 May 2020
Leaving Amazon, Observability, Mining Tables, Distributed Ledgers
Four short links: 4 May 2020
OS for Heterogeneous Hardware, Code Generation, Only People Get Patents, and Reasoning to Find Fake News
Four short links: 1 May 2020
ESP8266 Firmware, Deep Learning Anime, Cyber Wargaming, and Deep Learning Music
Four short links: 30 April 2020
Microservices Problems, GNU Binary Editor, Open-Domain Chatbot, and CopyLeft Conf 2020 Videos
Four short links: 29 April 2020
Game Theory, Disinfo, Ransomware, and Debugging Tales
Four short links: 28 April 2020
Learning a Language, Vulnerability Assessment, Distributed Consensus, and AI Playing Football
Four short links: 27 April 2020
Distributed Computation, Consistency Maps, WebAssembly on FPGA, and Reliable Information
Four short links: 24 April 2020
Remote Playbook, GPU Graphics in Python, NLP Training Costs, and Net Neutrality
Four short links: 23 April 2020
Packet Capture, Improving Instagram with Deep Learning, Data Science, and The Spotify Model
Four short links: 22 April 2020
Product Analytics, Mainframe Stories, Simulation NetLogo, and Database Wisdom
Four short links: 21 April 2020
Making Change, Big Graphs, Conference in Animal Crossing, and Bug Sorting with ML
Four short links: 20 April 2020
Structured Database, Mainframes, Distributed Platform, and TIL Log
Four short links: 17 April 2020
Graph Database, COBOL Course, Serverless Handbook, and New Annealing Processor
Four short links: 16 April 2020
Kanban Board, Remote Work Playbook, Deep Faked Avatars, and Database Testing Tool
Four short links: 15 April 2020
Coders, Tiny Neural Net, Hardware Cheating, and Radar Trends
Four short links: 14 April 2020
Science of Happiness, Business of AI, Against Group Chat, and Human Standards Project
Four short links: 13 April 2020
COBOL, Zoombot, UI Sandboxing, and Fantasy Computer
Four short links: 10 April 2020
Object Tracking, IFTT For Coders, Compiler Explorer, and Mac Window Management
Four short links: 9 April 2020
Character Encoding, Windows Automation, Electronic Noses, Fake Scanned PDFs
Four short links: 8 April 2020
System Design, RPG for Teleconferencing, Desktop Automation, and Logical Verification
Four short links: 7 April 2020
Load Testing, Background Matting, Removing Visual Obstructions, and Algorithmic Summarisation
Four short links: 6 April 2020
Bootable USB Drives, Patching Voice Calls, Molecular Programming, and Crafting Interpreters
Four short links: 3 April 2020
Zero Trust Learning Curve, Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Decompiled Person-Tracker, and Tiny Tools
Four short links: 2 April 2020
COVID19 Model, Readings on Time, Language Censorship, and Haxx0r vim
Four short links: 1 April 2020
Replaying Traffic for Tests, Outlaw Innovations, Poking at Algorithms, and Oculus Terminal Emulator
Four short links: 31 March 2020
Ventilator Designs, Versioning Tabular Data, WYSIWYG Markdown, and How To Be Curious
Four short links: 24 March 2020
Paper Study Groups, Open Source Videoconferencing, Embedded Modules, and Build System
Four short links: 23 March 2020
NLP, SSH, Privacy, and History
Four short links: 20 March 2020
Esports, Antitrust, Observability, and Socializing Online
Four short links: 19 March 2020
Open Source, Content Moderation, Community Calls, and Self-Isolation
Four short links: 18 March 2020
Text Adventures, Startups & the Virus, Free Textbooks, and Software Engineering at Google
Four short links: 17 March 2020
Great Firewall, Security Liability, XOXO Talks, and Internet Censorship Research
Four short links: 16 March 2020
Uncensored Library, Shmoocon 2020, Differential Privacy, Layoffs
Four short links: 13 March 2020
Access Management, Remote Relationships, API Security, and Hexagonal Architecture
Four short links: 12 March 2020
AWS Bills, Offline-first, Censorship, and Corporate Engineering Blogs
Four short links: 11 March 2020
Doctorow Newsletter, Map Library, Micro-FM Pi Nodes, and Evolving Algorithms
Four short links: 10 March 2020
ML Lifecycle, Eventing, Offline Support, and TensorFlow Quantum
Four short links: 9 March 2020
Git for Geodata, Language Generation Bias, Online Conferences, and Multithreaded Gotchas
Four short links: 6 March 2020
New Hardware, When Not to Kubernetes, Computability Proof, and Architecture Thinking
Four short links: 5 March 2020
Face Detection, Mastery, NGINX, and Personal Organizer
Four short links: 4 March 2020
Accessibility, DOS, Downtime, and Cybersecurity Law
Four short links: 3 March 2020
Privacy, HTTP Proxies, Covid-19 and Remote Work, and Tech Writing
Four short links: 2 March 2020
Rollout Automation, Internet of Quarantined People, Draft Fast.ai Book, and p5.js Hits 1.0
Four short links: 28 February 2020
Responsible Mapping, Testing Desirability, Data Center Power, and Augmenting Web Apps with Spreadsheets
Four short links: 27 February 2020
Map Typeface, Series A, Information Disorders, and Understanding Issues
Four short links: 26 February 2020
WASM in the Kernel, Open Access, Instrumenting Complex Systems, and Attacking NLP
Four short links: 25 February 2020
Incident Management, NLP, Antifragile Ideas, and Blogging
Four short links: 24 February 2020
CV Unethical, Convert Schemas, Multiplayer Live-Coding Audio, and ML Risk Analysis
Four short links: 22 February 2020
Codeless ML, Gender Tagging, Circular Transformation, and Rat Chat
Four short links: 20 February 2020
Computer Laws, Embedded Systems, Moore's Law, and Crowdsourcing Data
Four short links: 19 February 2020
Devil's Dictionary, Bioinformatics, OpenAI, and AI Research Rankings
Four short links: 18 February 2020
Generating Test Cases, Regulating Social Media, Incentivizing Scientists, and Questions for Managers
Four short links: 17 February 2020
Hackers vs. Coders, Deep Learning, Bluetooth Vulnerabilities, and the Deadlock Empire
Four short links: 14 February 2020
Advanced Binary Deobfuscation, Data Liberation, Video Conversion, and Tesla Firmware
Four short links: 13 February 2020
UK Internet Regulation, Julia ML, Innovation Prizes, and Face Generating GANs
Four short links: 12 February 2020
Engineering Strategy, Many Parameters, Organizing Information, and 3D Printing
Four short links: 11 February 2020
Empires, Intelligence, Privacy, and Prisoner's Dilemma
Four short links: 10 February 2020
Digital Dictators, Meaningful Availability, GTM Metrics, and High-Dimensional Interactive Plots
Four short links: 7 February 2020
API Security, Automated Video Moderation is Hard, Mining Massive Data Sets, and Tech Worker Compensation
Four short links: 6 February 2020
Identifying Doctored Images, Demonstrating ML, Radioactive Data, and Search All Your Things
Four short links: 5 February 2020
Go to Rust, Underinvestment in Quality, Ad Tech Report, and Mission Creep
Four short links: 4 February 2020
Tools Course, Rich vs. Famous, Hacker Brain, and Network Data Analysis
Four short links: 3 February 2020
Regulation, Learning Algorithms, Engineering Beliefs, and Google Maps Hacks
Four short links: 31 January 2020
Thunderbird, Disassembly, Security Keys, and ML Systems Design
Four short links: 30 January 2020
Open-Domain Chatbot, Coding Style, Game Mod Copyright, and Design for Repair
Four short links: 29 January 2020
Speculative Debugging, Planned and Unplanned Work, Legible News, and Ops Lessons
Four short links: 28 January 2020
TinyML, Probability, 51% Attacks, and Brad Fitzpatrick
Four short links: 27 January 2020
Developer Productivity, Compilers Course, Terminal Shooter, and Future of Coding
Four short links: 24 January 2020
Virus Genomes, Kubernetes Security, Copyright Crisis, and Startup Validation
Four short links: 23 January 2020
Formal Methods, Backends, Binary Representation, and Chat Bridging
Four short links: 22 January 2020
Unending Projects, Work/Life Game, Software Characterization, Team Dynamics
Four short links: 21 January 2020
Network Visualization, Computational Notebooks, Computing History, and Preserving Privacy
Four short links: 20 January 2020
AR Lenses, Faux Keyboard Noises, Tech Villainy, and Data Tests
Four short links: 17 January 2020
Cursed Filesystem, Many Cats, Speech Processing, and Standard Operating Procedure
Four short links: 16 January 2020
Zero Trust, Safeguarding Elections, Design Heuristics, and Image/Container Analysis
Four short links: 15 January 2020
Sleep Deprivation, Lip Reading, Data Processing, and Rapid Product Development
Four short links: 14 January 2020
Privacy Legislation, Bystander Effect, Computing Education, and Tech Adversaries
Four short links: 13 January 2020
Simulated Customer, Symbolic Meets Statistical, Deep Fakes, and Online Radicalization
Four short links: 10 January 2020
Automation UX, Awful AI, Neural Net Guitar Pedal, and Closed Web
Four short links: 9 January 2020
Structuring Papers, State of the World 2020, Reading Big Difficult Books, and Storing Forever
Four short links: 8 January 2020
Running Unconferences, Media Server, Lyfte's Workflow Tool, and Bandwidth Utilization
Four short links: 7 January 2020
Coding Interview Problems, Coder Stratification, Writing a Compiler, and Distributed Execution Framework
Four short links: 6 January 2020
OS Forks, WASM OS, Mediating Consent, and Computational Cinematography
Four short links: 3 January 2020
Portable Scripts, Training Actors, Cyber Law, and Government Data
Four short links: 2 January 2020
Voice Assistant, Public Domain, Bing Disinformation, and Knowledge Bases
Four short links: 1 January 2020
Think Like a Programmer, Do Good Deeds, Command-line Trello-like Tool, and Advice for a New Executive
Four short links: 31 December 2019
Learn Assembly, Quantum Puzzles, Ghost Characters, and Computer Networks
Four short links: 30 December 2019
Dynamic Graphs, Gamification, hipsterDB, and JavaScript Testing
Four short links: 27 December 2019
Algorithmic Puzzles, Publishing, Microtask Programming, AI Introduction
Four short links: 26 December 2019
Paper Recommendations, SDR, JavaScript OCR, and Changing Minds
Four short links: 25 December 2019
Multiple Regexps, NLP Beyond English, MSR Roundup, and Embedded Linux
Four short links: 24 December 2019
Cybersecurity Book, Real-time Code Collaboration, Content Moderation, and Dangerous Rust
Four short links: 23 December 2019
Choose Your Own Adventure, Crystal OS, Chinese Tone Language, and RIP Chuck Peddle
Four short links: 20 December 2019
Homomorphic Encryption, Supply Chain Security, Location Tracking, Cognitive Uncertainty
Four short links: 19 December 2019
Organizational Complexity, YAGNI, Social Robotics, and Formal Reasoning
Four short links: 18 December 2019
Tech Leads, Securing Research, Factoids, and Prioritizing Technical Debt
Four short links: 17 December 2019
Shenzhen Guide, Content Moderation Damages, WebAssembly Recommended, and Best Business Books
Four short links: 16 December 2019
Screen Time and Depression, Crowdsourcing Bad Ideas, Parallel Programming, and Rust Idioms
Four short links: 13 December 2019
Cross-Platform UI, Marketing Games, 32 Into 64, Unhealthy Facebook
Four short links: 12 December 2019
Social Science One, Structuring Work, Power of Links, and JavaScript Flowcharts
Four short links: 11 December 2019
Resilient Communications, Powered Exoskeleton, Software Making Software, and Disinformation Resources
Four short links: 10 December 2019
Four short links: 9 December 2019
Learning from Incidents, ISBN Changes, Prisoner's Dilemma, and Load-bearing Skeletons